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	<title>Comments on: A Sh***y Post</title>
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		<title>By: Ash</title>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2008/03/12/a-shy-post/comment-page-2/#comment-222751</link>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A blog is a reflection of who you are - if you want to be fake-happy then that&#039;s ok too, but if you want to reflect reality, and sometimes reality is pretty damn shitty, then shitty posts will have to happen. 

It&#039;s a bit like the first few times you have sex with someone new. You&#039;re trying so hard to make a good impression, to be good, to do the right things. Someone told me that we were having &#039;Cosmo-sex&#039; once. You know, like the magazine? Then after a few times you get past the Cosmo-sex and you start having real sex. 

It&#039;s a bit like that with the shitty blog posts. You&#039;ve stopped having Cosmo-sex with your readers Neil - now we&#039;re onto the real thing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A blog is a reflection of who you are &#8211; if you want to be fake-happy then that&#8217;s ok too, but if you want to reflect reality, and sometimes reality is pretty damn shitty, then shitty posts will have to happen. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a bit like the first few times you have sex with someone new. You&#8217;re trying so hard to make a good impression, to be good, to do the right things. Someone told me that we were having &#8216;Cosmo-sex&#8217; once. You know, like the magazine? Then after a few times you get past the Cosmo-sex and you start having real sex. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a bit like that with the shitty blog posts. You&#8217;ve stopped having Cosmo-sex with your readers Neil &#8211; now we&#8217;re onto the real thing.</p>
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		<title>By: littlepurplecow</title>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2008/03/12/a-shy-post/comment-page-2/#comment-222664</link>
		<dc:creator>littlepurplecow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It feels good to be back.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It feels good to be back.</p>
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		<title>By: Jennifer</title>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2008/03/12/a-shy-post/comment-page-2/#comment-222641</link>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My shi**y posts nearly always come about when I feel some inane pressure to post SOMETHING. It&#039;s when I remember that this whole exercise started - for me - as an electronic journal, and get back to writing for me, that I actually start to like my posts again. 

Of course, by comment count, the external realities are often exactly opposite of the above. 

Eh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My shi**y posts nearly always come about when I feel some inane pressure to post SOMETHING. It&#8217;s when I remember that this whole exercise started &#8211; for me &#8211; as an electronic journal, and get back to writing for me, that I actually start to like my posts again. </p>
<p>Of course, by comment count, the external realities are often exactly opposite of the above. </p>
<p>Eh.</p>
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		<title>By: Jan</title>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2008/03/12/a-shy-post/comment-page-2/#comment-222624</link>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My mother is too self-involved to read my blog.

Occasionally, when I write something especially witty, I&#039;ll direct her there.

Of her own volition, she can&#039;t be bothered. Which gives me open license to complain about her without fear of retribution. 

My mom&#039;s pretty tightly wound. She&#039;d probably like you until she realized you wrote the word &quot;penis&quot; on the internet.  She&#039;d say, &quot;who does that.&quot; (sheltered,too.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My mother is too self-involved to read my blog.</p>
<p>Occasionally, when I write something especially witty, I&#8217;ll direct her there.</p>
<p>Of her own volition, she can&#8217;t be bothered. Which gives me open license to complain about her without fear of retribution. </p>
<p>My mom&#8217;s pretty tightly wound. She&#8217;d probably like you until she realized you wrote the word &#8220;penis&#8221; on the internet.  She&#8217;d say, &#8220;who does that.&#8221; (sheltered,too.)</p>
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		<title>By: CuriosityKiller</title>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2008/03/12/a-shy-post/comment-page-1/#comment-222615</link>
		<dc:creator>CuriosityKiller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You and I are from different worlds, Neil.  I can only PRAY that my mom doesn&#039;t read my blog... and I can&#039;t help but actually write shitty posts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You and I are from different worlds, Neil.  I can only PRAY that my mom doesn&#8217;t read my blog&#8230; and I can&#8217;t help but actually write shitty posts.</p>
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		<title>By: Katie</title>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2008/03/12/a-shy-post/comment-page-1/#comment-222583</link>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To me, it doesnt matter if it&#039;s &quot;shitty&quot; as long as it&#039;s real.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To me, it doesnt matter if it&#8217;s &#8220;shitty&#8221; as long as it&#8217;s real.</p>
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		<title>By: HeyJoe</title>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2008/03/12/a-shy-post/comment-page-1/#comment-222581</link>
		<dc:creator>HeyJoe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your shitty posts are better than my attempts to not be shitty.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your shitty posts are better than my attempts to not be shitty.</p>
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		<title>By: plain jane</title>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2008/03/12/a-shy-post/comment-page-1/#comment-222569</link>
		<dc:creator>plain jane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Neil,

No matter how shitty the post you&#039;ll always have a warm place in my heart.

I read the post on Spitzer first and any guy who has never been to a prostitute AND doesn&#039;t even care to, is high on my list.  

I agree that prostitution should be legal.  But do you know that 90% of prostitutes have been sexually abused as children? Read some &quot;fun facts&quot; about this &quot;victimless&quot; crime. 

http://www.icasa.org/uploads/prostitution.pdf</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Neil,</p>
<p>No matter how shitty the post you&#8217;ll always have a warm place in my heart.</p>
<p>I read the post on Spitzer first and any guy who has never been to a prostitute AND doesn&#8217;t even care to, is high on my list.  </p>
<p>I agree that prostitution should be legal.  But do you know that 90% of prostitutes have been sexually abused as children? Read some &#8220;fun facts&#8221; about this &#8220;victimless&#8221; crime. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.icasa.org/uploads/prostitution.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.icasa.org/uploads/prostitution.pdf</a></p>
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		<title>By: Mid-Week Round-Up &#124; Los Angeles Metblogs</title>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2008/03/12/a-shy-post/comment-page-1/#comment-222556</link>
		<dc:creator>Mid-Week Round-Up &#124; Los Angeles Metblogs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] at Citizen of the Month talks about the effect of a shitty post on an otherwise well-written blog. (He also breaks down the Democratic race and talks about [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] at Citizen of the Month talks about the effect of a shitty post on an otherwise well-written blog. (He also breaks down the Democratic race and talks about [...]</p>
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		<title>By: MammaLoves</title>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2008/03/12/a-shy-post/comment-page-1/#comment-222554</link>
		<dc:creator>MammaLoves</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think my mom actually stopped reading my blog.

How sad is that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think my mom actually stopped reading my blog.</p>
<p>How sad is that?</p>
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