FN Blog - Seven heads are better than one!

I’ve always been guilty of being elitista-obscurista… And though I may not be as judgmental as others with bandwagon issues (in that at least I try something before I diss it), I’ve never really taken blogging and the whole livejournal subculture seriously.

Exhibit A:
Me: “Really? You’re a writer? Where can I see your work?”
Someone: “Oh check out my blog at poser.blogspot.com”
Me: (to self, not spoken out loud) “Pffffft….you’re a writer coz you’re a blogger? *put snarky mental snicker here*”

There are too many idiots as it is who get published in “proper” media of the written word like newspapers and magazines. And “bloggers”…gawd, to me they were the worst of poseurs coz, hell, they’d get published with no editorial process whatsoever (all they’d need was their url to get passed on). Don’t get me wrong, I actually used to have a personal blog. But then the blog boom began, and suddenly everyone was a blogger. Just like how everyone’s now a writer.

“I’m a writer.” Oh yeah? Well so are the idiots who caption the metro pages. And hell they get paid more than I ever will. Imagine how a sun-baked surfer-to-the-core La Union local would feel if she ran into some chick who called herself a surfer coz she bought the latest Billabong rash guard since it looked so swank in “the ultimate surfing movie, Blue Crush!” Or Perez Hilton’s pallor if someone claimed to be THE source of showbiz news just because she religiously watches The Buzz. Or diehard Tolkien fans losing a vital organ after someone who’s never picked up a book until Harry Potter suddenly proclaims himself as a “fantasy literati.” Oh and this is by far the worst: pa-angst artsy farts going the atheist route just coz they wear black and happen to quote Nietzsche’s popular (yet often taken-out-of-context) line “God is dead.” (The complete quote goes something like “God is dead and we have killed him,” and was a social commentary more on how the church had become institutionalized and politicized. I say if one is gonna pose, konting effort naman. Ang dali-dali nang magpanggap ngayon, just Wiki it! Geez!)

Anyway, my general disdain for “blogging” as a recognized platform for the written word can be summed by this awesome exerpt from Californication:

Radio Show Host: “What’s your latest obsession? ”
Hank Moody: “Just the fact that people seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, democratize us, but all it’s really given us is Howard Dean’s aborted candidacy and 24 hour a day access to kiddie porn. People… they don’t write anymore, they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMAO that. You know, it just seems to me it’s just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people at a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the Queen’s English.”
Radio Show Host: “Yet you’re part of the problem, I mean you’re out there blogging with the best of them. ”
Hank Moody: “Hence my self-loathing.”

But alas, amidst the convolution of Facebook, Multiply, and what not, this writer has come to appreciate the straightforward simplicity of the blog page. Plus I’ve been bitten really bad by the HTML bug…damn those widgets and customizable CSS codes. Can’t. Stop.

Hence my self-loathing.

Ciao!

P.S. In short, huli lang talaga sa uso ang lola niyo, hahahaha!