Comments on: My Own Worst Character

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:23:28 +0000

I’ve had people leave comments on my blog that I’m daft, that there’s no way I’m this stupid in real life and in one particularly astute reader moment that “I have confirmed the fact IQ tests should be required before having kids”.

In real life I will also have a drink in my hand.

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By: Di

Di — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:43:28 +0000

To tell someone that their mother is ‘sassy’ is a compliment! Friend me, unfriend me, tweet me, or don’t. The real world is here where I sit with my husband each evening and as much as I enjoy online and blogging friends they will never hold a candle to my real life relationships. Oh, except you…

Di
*giggling away as usual*

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:47:30 +0000

It’s funny. I read this post yesterday and thought, It doesn’t really bother me if someone “unfriends” me. But then this morning, while on Facebook I noticed that I was missing a friend. I must have spent 15 minutes scanning and obsessing over my friends list trying to figure out who it was. Geez!

By: carma

carma — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:47:28 +0000

Bring on the real you. I’m ready for some three dimensional glory!

Interesting tidbit on the BlogHer ladies. I was thinking you were going to say most were different than their online personas…

By: Loukia

Loukia — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:05:58 +0000

My commnets were left to you on facebook, but I wanted to add that I don’t even know the numbers of my followers on Twitter… I think it might be 800 although maybe it’s 700 something? I block people all day, it seems, which makes me want to protect my updates, because there are a lot of weirdos out there and they scare me!
As for you, stop caring about these sorts of thing! You have so many people who admire and love you for your writing and I truly believe you’re just as awesome in person.

By: Noel

Noel — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:56:27 +0000

akin to dragging yourself through the city square in 17th Century Paris for a beheading

I’m trying to imagine this. The French Revolution occurred in the 18th Century. So, are you saying it’s like going through a city square with the premonition that, a century later, the streets will run red with blood?

By: Finn

Finn — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:47:32 +0000

I don’t think it’s possible, no matter how good a writer you are, to capture a whole person and present them wrapped up in a neat package.

And really, why would you want to?

By: SciFi Dad

SciFi Dad — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:24:26 +0000

To me, the audience is made up of two groups: the core readership and the occasional visitor. Some people float back and forth between groups, some never become anything other than occasional, yet comment more often than some I’d call core. It’s a nuanced thing.

As for the portrayal of characters, I would not have thought “sassy” when describing your mother; I don’t know what word would spring to mind (doting is probably close, but that might just be me stereotyping Jewish moms from tv).

By: headbang8

headbang8 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:20:04 +0000

You are a skilled writer, and your backtwitterer is a lazy reader.

You mention, on your blog, that you like a certain kind of cheese. Your mother doesn’t march into your room and say, “Hey, why didn’t you tell me? Look at how long I’ve been buying Jahrlberg when you really like Muenster! No wonder you go slow on my cheeseburgers…” That would be sassy.

She sinply went out and bought the right kind of cheese. You found it, and thought it sweet. That’s shy of both of you.

Both you and your mother were mildly taken aback, and a little embarassed, when you caught each other naked, recently. That’s shy, too. And you both got over it instantly, which is the way an intelligent person would. Intelligent–another adjective your backtwitterer could have mentioned as a reason to call.

But no. Jewish mothers are all Estelle Getty. They’re all Sophie Portnoy. They’re all Anne Bancroft in Torch Song Trilogy. I suspect a bit of subtle stereotypes amongst the tweeting.

Your backtwitterer is a twit.

My blog has a select coterie of readers who actually get it. Fine with me.

Many casual visitors don’t get it–especially the gay ones, who would rather I upholster the pages not just with the scathing wit for which we homosexuals are famous, but with more eye candy.

Go ahead and unfollow me. Plenty of other places to find soft porn online, boys. Hashtag yourself a dating profile, and enjoy a twitter-tug. No skin off my nose.