Aaah, the Chanukah candle, it burns, it burns!
• I totally surrender, Michael. You had me at "in-jokes get lonely too." Oh, and Chris' show trial is over, naturally, just as I was getting the hang of things.
• As Melissa reminds us, sometimes people are so sexist they don't even realize their putdowns don't make any sense as putdowns. I mean really, "nobody wants to rape you"? Great! I hope nobody wants to rob or mug me either! Also at Shakespeare's Sister, Paul the Spud points out an aspect of the Left Behind video game that nobody else has mentioned yet - the sexist nature of the careers that characters are allowed to have.
• What Bryan said. Although, even though I think it's a good idea to treat blogging as a hobby unless you're specifically hired to make money doing it, I also think it's annoying when stuff that used to work suddenly doesn't, so all this trouble with people's comment sections makes me happier than ever that I chose to stick with the "old" Blogger platform for now.
• Also, what Dave said. I wish people would stop confusing form with content. Saying "bloggers are evil" is like saying "comics are about guys in tights beating the crap out of each other." Comics is a storytelling medium, and what stories get told are entirely up to the people creating them. Blogs are a form of communication, and the ways in which bloggers choose to communicate are as varied as the writers themselves. Not everybody blogs about politics, or comics, or sushi, or cats, or travel. And some of us blog about all these things and more. If you're going to rail against the evils of "the bloggers," at least define your terms and clarify which specific kind of bloggers you mean.
Hey, the sun just came out! Aaah, it burns, it burns...
• I totally surrender, Michael. You had me at "in-jokes get lonely too." Oh, and Chris' show trial is over, naturally, just as I was getting the hang of things.
• As Melissa reminds us, sometimes people are so sexist they don't even realize their putdowns don't make any sense as putdowns. I mean really, "nobody wants to rape you"? Great! I hope nobody wants to rob or mug me either! Also at Shakespeare's Sister, Paul the Spud points out an aspect of the Left Behind video game that nobody else has mentioned yet - the sexist nature of the careers that characters are allowed to have.
• What Bryan said. Although, even though I think it's a good idea to treat blogging as a hobby unless you're specifically hired to make money doing it, I also think it's annoying when stuff that used to work suddenly doesn't, so all this trouble with people's comment sections makes me happier than ever that I chose to stick with the "old" Blogger platform for now.
• Also, what Dave said. I wish people would stop confusing form with content. Saying "bloggers are evil" is like saying "comics are about guys in tights beating the crap out of each other." Comics is a storytelling medium, and what stories get told are entirely up to the people creating them. Blogs are a form of communication, and the ways in which bloggers choose to communicate are as varied as the writers themselves. Not everybody blogs about politics, or comics, or sushi, or cats, or travel. And some of us blog about all these things and more. If you're going to rail against the evils of "the bloggers," at least define your terms and clarify which specific kind of bloggers you mean.
Hey, the sun just came out! Aaah, it burns, it burns...
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