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It’s been a tough stretch for Zach. His friend died, he lost his job, and his girl left him. It’s enough to make a guy write a Country & Western song. But Life wasn’t done kicking Zaxxon in the balls, as the most recent (and final) posting on his own blog (silvergelatin.blogspot.com) made clear.
Last week, I found out that indeed there is a downside to blogging: You have no control over who can read the words you’ve written. In a Murphy’s law scenario to beat all others, someone who had not been invited to this blog began reading. They happened upon some of the most regrettable words I’ve ever written, and were affected deeply by it. This experience has made me rethink a lot of things, but the one that is most applicable is that blogging is a very specific type of writing, and I was not following those boundaries. In the end, I caused a good person a great deal of pain, and it’s something I’m very sorry for.
Isn’t it time that a few golden rays of happiness fell upon our friend? Not quite yet, because now it’s my turn to add a few more insults to Zachy’s many injuries.
First of all, Zach, the real downside to blogging is that you have no control over who doesn’t read your blog. Maybe you had to beat fans of your prose off with a verbal stick, but I can’t hardly convince my closest friends to even acknowledge that yorkrules exists! So if you’ve got some surplus of disaffected readers, please send them my way.
And now you’re rethinking things? This implies that you began blogging with an initial round of thinking, which, if you’ve read my blog, you know I assiduously avoid. That way, when I offend people, I can offer an honest defence: I wasn’t thinking.
Your other mistake? You’re too goddamned nice. That’s a narrow and precipitous path to traverse, my friend, and even the most considerate tightrope walker is bound to make an occasionally insulting misstep. I offend freely and easily in my writing, so if I ever say something out of character, people usually thank me for my thoughtfulness.
As for blogging being a “very specific” type of writing, I can only assume that, having read a few of the 900 million blogs out there myself, you mean the “really poorly written” type. In that case, I hope that, when you do blog again, you don’t try to be just another mindless collection of thoughts on the screen. If somebody out there takes offence when you express yourself, I say good for you for making this world a little more entertaining for all of us (and fuck Canadians! - see, it’s easy.)
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