Entered: Wednesday, 8 September 2004 - 05:49 HDT
Name: Rubber Duckie
Comment: To: Rance and the ever present Administrative Staff
From: Rubber Duckie
Well, I woke up this morning and received an email that made a bowl of Cheerios drenched in fresh urine sound cheering in comparison. But alas, not even Cheerios doused with a fresh cup of milk straight from the cow's teet could cheer me up today since reading same.
Do you want to know why?
I'll share with you anyway.
To quote you, Rance, in your own words from your most recent and last post...:"People often suggest: Why not just have no comments at all? I like that solution least of all, because I like the community that's blossomed here. I had no idea that'd be the case at the onset, but now it is."
If you like the community so much then why are you killing it? Suffocating it? Blindly weeding out the flowers as opposed to the weeds?
I feel like I am attempting to give CPR to a dying gold fish, which ain't easy my friend. Not that I can call you "my friend" as I came here well after you stopped posting. I blogged here not because of you, the supposed CELEBRITY, but because of you, the witty writer, and your cast of faithful friends.
But where is your "community", these witty, faithful friends? Where is Robyn? Ginny? Nicole? Shorty? Mrs. Norman Maine? Jay? Cheryl? WendyJo? waxwing? and anyone I may have carelessly overlooked? I, as I'm sure others do as well, wish to chat with these people amongst your wittily veiled posts.
I'm sure your thinkin right about now what right do I have to ask anything from you and you're right, you don't owe me a blessed thing. But you can't make that claim with the others. You do owe them. You owe them for hanging out with you thru your burning pissing, ranting, raving stage to where you are now. And it isn't as if we're asking you for money or something material, or even something that you are not capable of giving.
I'm asking you for something really simple. A gift that costs you nothing, yet gives enjoyment to so many...you're words. I live in a town with one gas station, one stoplight in the whole friggin county, a Dollar General Store, a Country Mart, and a library with five shelves. That's it! No movie show, no skate-o-rama, no bowling alley, not even a WAL-MART!!!!!!!!! It is too much to ask for an ESCAPE?? If only via your stories and my imagination? And they don't even have to be stories...tell the truth. I find that fascinating as well.
What, are you worried someone is going to figure out who you are? So what? Who cares? If I were you I'd beat 'em to the punch. If you're a REAL CELEBRITY, claiming this blog as your own will do nothing but garner you a BLOG FULL of faithful, adoring fans. What's so bad about that? Are you worried some will be disappointed? Who the heck cares? If you're not a CELEBRITY, then BRILLIANT...I'd be an even BIGGER fan.
All I can say is whoever you are you have a clever, veiled wit that has me laughing five minutes after I've read it. Why you can no longer share your comments and thoughts with us is incomprehensible to me...as I said, it costs you nothing.
Alrighty then, enough of my rant. I'm sure you're sick of the lectures and the fighting and the pettiness that comes with a community...but that's LIFE. In between all the chaos you may learn something, grow, gain a friend or two...who knows??????????
I'm down and out.
Off to eat my Cheerios drowned in a bowl of beer...
Posted by captainhoof
at 11:35 AM CDT