Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
- Robert Frost
I almost posted this a while back, but seeing how
the blog wars have finally come to an end, I feel more free to say it now.
I was inspired to post this earlier, but restrained myself. It wasn't my war.
These guys don't care two craps about my blog. But that's okay, since I don't give two craps what anyone thinks about my blog. This is MINE. It may not be enlightened reading or particularly useful, but it's my therapy on the cheap. It just happens to have an audience sometimes.
So the nutshell is that this whole "my blog is better than your blog" business has finally erupted like the cystic zit it was, with the CPMC coming out on the ichorous side. Not the CPMC itself, but the blog run by one member. I'm sure the CPMC itself is still intact, just not in blog form. In my opinion, this was a needless waste.
The whole thing felt like
The Outsiders, when the stuck up Socs were at war with the Greasers. I considered myself a Greaser in the blog universe, as I wasn't good enough to be Soc - my blog happened to use the word fabulous on occasion and was just about my inconsequential travails, not salacious dating advice or somesuch. The only saving grace for me was that I started it about a year before some folks deemed that people found blogging to be trendy ;) (although the truth is that blogging was a growing fad long before the alleged July 2005 date of offense, and we are all just as guilty of being poseurs, if you want to look at it that way).
Anyway, Greaser Johnny (Ralph Macchio's character) died at the end but not before telling Pony Boy (Tommy Howell's character) to "stay gold" - to remain innocent. Subtly, and some not too subtly, people tried to convey this message. The purity of the practice of blogging is marred by posing for mere adulation.
Blogging is a celebration of the freedom of speech. It represents the reality that we have choices in what we read. So you think a blog is crap? Don't read it. Don't link to it. It's that simple. It's all the same, just like all the media out there. Think it's crap? Change the channel. Taking time to talk shit about others' blogs? Waste of energy. Why give them that much power? You have ceded to them the very thing that they want! Want to talk about class? Show some restraint. Sometimes, turn the other cheek and being bigger than you are, figuratively speaking.
In this, respecting each other's right to say what we want, we stay gold. At least in terms of blogging.
Stay gold, bloggers. Stay gold.
P.S. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to use the word '
ichorous.' I knew I could, one day!
6 Comments:
Just so you know, my blog is better than your blog.
Nyah! ;)
By sethro, at 10/26/2005 01:25:00 PM
wow, that's a funny recap of the drama. it really was so childish.
By VP of Dior, at 10/26/2005 05:41:00 PM
One of my favorite poems from one of my favorite poets. Thank you for listing it.
By Dop T, at 10/26/2005 10:59:00 PM
Darling Sethro, you are the apple to my orange. And everyone knows oranges are better. :)
VP - at least that particular bs is over.
Dop - my pleasure. :)
By Siryn, at 10/26/2005 11:16:00 PM
Shit. Even Mt. Fuji Apples? 'Cuz they're really good.
By sethro, at 10/27/2005 06:41:00 AM
Sorry, darling, but oranges beat out apples six ways to Sunday. And you know it's true!
By Siryn, at 10/28/2005 12:33:00 AM
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