I think this war stuff is causing some people to blow their head gaskets. How else to account fot the non-sequitorish comments I am finding on five-month old posts in my defunct blog, like this one, where someone calling themselves "Celia" left the following totally-unrelated-to-the-subject (a brief statement of irritation at my cable provider) comment:
The flyer in my Time Warner cable bill has a contest for "San Diego's 50 best Moms" -- and they show a woman in pink, frying bacon and eggs. What year is it? Bastards.
Look, freaks -- and I mean that most kindly -- if you have a sudden thought, and have the urge to record it for posterity, the thing to do is to write it on a napkin, in your notepad, in MS Word, or ON YOUR OWN GODDAMN BLOG. Not in the comment section of an old post on someone else's website.
What the hell is next, grocery lists, people's phone numbers? Why don't you use my web space as a trashdump for something useful, like your bank account pin numbers? Thanks so much.
Update: though to be fair to Celia, maybe she thought I was upset at the content of my cable flyer too. I wouldn't know, though -- I throw everything from TWC in the garbage, including the bills.
Posted by Andrea Harris at March 26, 2003 01:09 AMWhy the assumption that one of the fifty best moms in San Diego wouldn't dress in pink, or fry bacon and eggs?
But, yeah, it's interesting what sort of stuff appears in old Googlable comments.
Posted by: *** Dave at March 27, 2003 at 09:08 AMAt the onset of the shooting war, my blog was bombarded with comments on old posts, often weird and unrelated to anything. In the last two days, though, comments have been back on track.
Posted by: Mac at March 27, 2003 at 10:00 AMwell, hell, who wouldn't be upset at that, Andrea? pink just shows grease so obviously...
now i'm even upset! pink! bastards! who do they think they are?! ;)
Posted by: chris at March 27, 2003 at 10:05 AMRemember, kids:
When the local alt-weekly talks about motherhood using maximum-retro 50's imagery, that's cool and ironic.
When The Man does it, it's an assault on womanhood. Because The Man can't possibly have any idea of irony. Because that's what The Man wants women to be, you see. So they'll, er, pay for Oxygen. Or something.
That'll make this clearer, if you just keep it in mind.
Posted by: Sigivald at March 27, 2003 at 01:51 PMI really love the idea with the pin numbers! It really made me laugh. We could use some shared blog for theft-save pin number storage.
Posted by: Lilli at March 27, 2003 at 04:32 PMFact of the matter is that unless you close comments on old posts, people who are using search engines will occasionally come upon an old posting of yours. And there's the invitation to comment right there. They aren't freaks, really. If you think about it, they're doing what you hoped they'd do when you first got started--finding something you wrote and finding it interesting enough to comment on. :-)
Posted by: Dean Esmay at March 27, 2003 at 05:06 PMIn our postmodernist age, it's sometimes seen as unkind to expect people to make relevant comments. Such a limiting approach might do untold damage to their delicate self esteem.
On the other hand
Andrea, I just want to say I always get a kick out of your little quotes that you put with the picture.
today's was FUNNY!
thanks for the laugh!
sharon