When it comes to my blog, I'm so elementary school I damn near eat paste.
In elementary school (or grade school, as we called it.... that must be a regional thing...anybody?) when someone pisses you off to the point you throw a screaming tantrum at their very existance offends you, they are Banished. They're Dead To You. Cut Out of the Circle.
At least until they bring cookies to class or have a new swingset... then it's all aboard the best friend express again.
Blogging is a lot like elementary grade school. If someone writes a post that makes my eyes cross with annoyance or my gorge rise offends me, I can't remove them from my blogroll fast enough. Then, of course following the formula, if somewhere down the line they write a post that compliments something I've scribbled, or something I was thinking about writing and they saved me the trouble admire, wham bam thank you MT, they're back on the roll.
This, while somewhat satisfying in a visceral way, is very tiring on days when political and belief pollen are floating through the blogworld in a cloud of bold-font sneezery and you can't mop up the blogsnot fast enough.
And as the GM1 pointed out, when I tried to explain it to him in our latest email, "If you delete everyone who pisses you off sometime, you're going to have no blogroll at all. And you'll miss Reno 911 again from being on the damn computer all the time, and when are you sending me those CDs I forgot to pack? Damn, woman, I need my Linkin Park!"
Elementary Grade school doesn't last forever. You grow up, you learn the finer niceties of dealing with conflict (like TP-ing someone's house, or cow-tipping). If you have a connection, it's not an on/off switch.
I'm not doing anything with my blogroll. I'm not trying to make a Big Policy Statement or stir the pot to see what bubbles to the top, because we all know I don't cook. (At least not so there are survivors.)
I'm just doing what I always do here.... I'm just talkin'.
And if you come out someday and your cow is tipped, it wasn't me.
(note to self: no more existential musing until after first cup of plasma coffee.... after, do ya ken wot I mean?)
So I'm reading along here (dee dee dum dee dee) and SUDDENLY I find myself scrolling down through your blogroll in a complete panic (actually I think I burst a corpuscle) to see if I've been banished and ohthankgod I haven't (yet). I was certainly happy about that because if I was banished I wouldn't even be smart enough to realize why. Which is cause for banishment right there. I'm so glad to see someone else notices the grade school similarities. Meet me on the swing set at 2 and we'll dish.
PS: I don't cook either.
Posted by: topdawg at July 2, 2004 08:38 AMMe, I hate going into my template for any reason. I barely ever even get around to adding people. I can't imagine taking the time to de-link someone :-)
Posted by: Harvey at July 2, 2004 08:52 AMMichael @ www.chasingthewind.net asked me a question that I did not know the answer to and told me you would know the answer. You know everything. So, here goes: I hate cottage cheese and yet I eat several times a week, why?
Posted by: Courtney at July 2, 2004 09:03 AMGlad to know I wasn't the one to stop mid read to see if I had been de-linked.
Hell - I just finished happy dancing for the link in the first place. :) (thanks by the way!)
Posted by: Tammi at July 2, 2004 09:37 AMI had to check, too, to see if I was still on the Cheesemistress's blogrolls. I'm listed under "Cottage," whew.
Speaking of cottage, Courtney was eating some at lunch and making faces like an elementary grade schooler. Now we're both here to find out why.
Posted by: Michael at July 2, 2004 10:29 AMI didn't think that I was even linked so imagine my surprise when I scrolled through your blog roll and found my site there! Yay!
Does that make me one of the cool kids now?
Posted by: Xinh at July 2, 2004 11:42 AMLOL Mike and Courtney- My best guess as to why you keep eating it is that even though your tongue is against it, your body is bigger, has more votes, and knows when something is good for you (protein but less fat). Plus, if you add ketchup to it, it's really good.
Stop making that face.
And you are all the cool kids, every single one of yez. Except the person who brought me a box of sat-upon crayons for my birthday when I was 6.
You know who you are.
hey, i'm postin' and i didn't check to see if i've been removed. i think that means i'm more Clueless than Confident. i'm stoneage in blogging, even though i have unimported posts dating back to 2000. blogroll? what's a blogroll? woah, my site's on leeann's list of sites, how'd i get there? wait, i'm not there anymore, what IS this thing? who am i? help, i'm confused. i'm taking the short bus back to my little site to gargle more gibberish and fall off the monkey bars... :oP
Posted by: angel at July 2, 2004 12:33 PMThis is about me, isn't it?
And those crayons were on clearance. All I had was a dime.
Posted by: Scooterdeb at July 2, 2004 01:12 PMI NEVER eat cottage cheese. Unless it's disguised as ricotta in my lasagne. But that's the only time. And I don't eat a lot of lasagne these days.
But about the de- and re-linking thing, I wait until I absolutely can't stand seeing someone's name before I remove anything.
I'm lazy like that.
Posted by: Da Goddess at July 2, 2004 01:16 PMAnd by the way, the swings are MY territory! Off the swings with you all!
You may have the slide area. Unless I decide to take that over as well.
Posted by: Da Goddess at July 2, 2004 01:17 PM..I ken, lass.. totally...
Posted by: Eric at July 3, 2004 04:33 AM*holding breath........* whew!
Posted by: Genuine at July 3, 2004 11:27 AMDear, you hit the head on the nail. I, for one, am perplexed. Help me out.
Posted by: Velociman at July 3, 2004 09:24 PMCottage cheese is God's joke on humanity. That and Canada. But mostly it's the cottage cheese.
Posted by: Simon at July 6, 2004 01:31 AMSooooo now we all know if we have pissed leeann off just look at here blogroll. :-)
I looked, I'm still there... I'm like topdawg, if she took me off the role, I probably wouldn't be able to figure out why. I'm just slightly more dense than lead...
Posted by: Teresa at July 6, 2004 11:03 AMSimon said :
Cottage cheese is God's joke on humanity. That and Canada. But mostly it's the cottage cheese.
Posted by Simon at July 6, 2004 01:31 AM
Hey - be fair, Cottage cheese ain't THAT bad.
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(note to self: no more existential musing until after first cup of plasma coffee.... after, do ya ken wot I mean?)
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Aye I ken the noo.
Posted by: Steve at July 7, 2004 04:27 AM*counts on fingers ... 1, 2, 3...*
We've been cheese-less for 5 days. What is this, a new diet I haven't heard of?
Posted by: Tiffany at July 7, 2004 09:50 AMI lost my cheese!
Posted by: Lynn at July 7, 2004 03:54 PMGosh, I hope she didn't get mad at herself and de-link her own blog!!
Posted by: Tammi at July 7, 2004 05:36 PMUgh, I hate cottage cheese and won't touch the stuff. I'm sure that's LeeAnn's twisted sense of humour at play [g] seeing as that's where my link is. And yes, I too scampered off to make sure I was still there [heaves sigh of relief] I admit it, I'm shallow that way!
Posted by: Ith at July 7, 2004 05:54 PMWell, I didn't have to check...I haven't fermented long enough to be cheese. But I sure am looking forward to it. I loves cheese!
Posted by: Denise at July 8, 2004 12:43 AM