tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8119012361893897551.post8732267749701901638..comments2023-09-12T22:49:16.089-07:00Comments on The Sea of Syrah: The New York Times Exposes A Blogger Suffering From A Self-Inflicted Flame-WarSyrahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00462582696147684479noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8119012361893897551.post-56268035755513793362010-01-24T19:29:24.110-08:002010-01-24T19:29:24.110-08:00Hi Fenway Nation,
Welcome.
I made my dash across...Hi Fenway Nation,<br /><br />Welcome.<br /><br />I made my dash across no-man’s-land and slipped over the wall in early October of 2009.<br /><br />I haven’t been back, not even to see if I have been blocked.<br /><br />After his official “flounce” in November, I expected many others to climb over the wall for freedom as well. Some have. Others have not. <br /><br />Many of those that have remained may not leave it even though it now runs counter to who they were and what they supported when they first signed up. They have a large emotional investment in that place and it may be very tough for them to just let it go. They will have a hard time of it over the next couple years and that is unfortunate. I am hopeful that they will free themselves of it in time.<br /><br />And then there are those that are perfectly happy with what it has become.<br /><br />They can have it.<br /><br />A community can form around a blog but a community is not chained to it. Much of what that community was has been shattered, with some cast-out and others that have fled from it.<br /><br />The community that remains there may build anew or blow apart again as it meets the uncertainties of the future.<br /><br />We shall see.<br /><br />But I won’t watch.<br /><br />I am now done with it.Syrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00462582696147684479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8119012361893897551.post-43029458504398691282010-01-24T02:31:27.667-08:002010-01-24T02:31:27.667-08:00Finally got the banning stick from there this week...Finally got the banning stick from there this week- maybe 24 hours before that NYT article began to gain traction.<br /><br />I swore that I'd leave quietly and make a clean break, but that didn't lost the siren song of schadenfreude over the pony-tailed one's reaction to Scott Brown election was too much for me to resist. He penned a thread declaring that the evil, sinister forces behind the 'Tea Party' movement were soley responsible for the GOP winning what used to be Teddy Kennedy's seat in one of the bluest states in America. I challeneged him on that and his replies (that I was throwing out dumb strawman arguments) clearly showed that he knew nothing about politics of the electorate in Massachusetts. Playing on his paranoia, I also posted a tongue-in-cheek post procilaiming I discovered Scott Brown's a high-ranking member of a secretive, well-armed milita that's been historically known to skirmish with government forces and linked to the Massachusetts National Guard homepage. He said soemthing about his post hitting a raw nerve and I told him apparently Brown's election must've struck a nerve, too.<br /><br />Although I posted at CC under a nome de guerre, it wouldn't have taken alot of sleuthing to realize who I was, given that I posted to my own blog at both his site and more frequently at CC. Hell, my blog even got a hat-tip from <i>'mashed up bag of meat with makeup'</i> [according to certian MSNBC 'personalities'] Michelle Malkin for sending her an item on some unions endorsing Brown, which is a big no-no in the husky one's increasingly isolated and lonely view.<br /><br />The only surprise is that it took this long for me to get the stick. Blocking my account as punishment is only effective for as long as I hold any value in having an account there. I suppose the easy thing to do is to blame the influx of neo-Koslings for the rapid downward spiral, but Charles is the one who allowed...hell...<i>wanted</i> it to happen.Fenway_Nationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03429660763096017228noreply@blogger.com