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Why are "A-List" bloggers such drama queens?

I'm serious. You look at almost any time one of the "A-list" Bloggers recommends something as "the best blog of the year", or "the best writing", and about 70% of the time, it's a site talking about some personal tragedy. Someone's kid dying of cancer. Someone talking about how hard it is to move after a busted relationship. Someone kvetching that they have a really hard-to-pop zit. Billy won't ask them to the prom. On and on.

What, you can't write well unless you're "sharing" the trajedies of your life with the world? (Yes, I know, and I meant the plural of trajedi. It's not a tragedy. What happend to Ms. Bhutto in Pakistan? That's a tragedy. That nice young girl who was gang - raped in Iraq in a legally - protected manner? That's a tragedy. You get dumped and move? That's just life.)

I swear, it's like these idiots are wannabe TV News Bobbleheads, only they don't get to ask Mrs. Jones what here feelings were when she realized her husband was dead, so they have to find blogs about trajedi, then wax rhapsodic about how "This...this is what blogs and the internet are for...the human connection, bringing us together."

Fucking rubbish is what it is. It's picking over the emotional drama of someone who has no one else to talk to so they post their lives on the internet, and hope for the reactions in comments that they can't get in real life. It's some kind of emotional zombie feeding frenzy via remote access, only instead of "BRAAAAAAINS" they walk around chanting "PERRRSONAL HUMANNNN TRAJEDIIIIII". Someone wants to post the details about their failed attempts at a relationship with someone who their "real-life" friends were probably trying to tell them was all wrong for them anyway, fine, but for the love of DOG, don't elevate it to the level of people out there who are writing to educate, to elevate, to make us laugh, and sometimes do all three.

I'd rather read nothing but a month of PZ frothing on Pharyngula, or Gruber going deep into font and pen esoterica for weeks or Matt's analysis of the bizarreness that is NCAA sports in Oklahoma or Chuck's never ending "Name that car" which I never get, than some of this "OMG, LIFE IS NOT ALWAYS PERFECT, I AM IN A DEEEEP PIT OF DEPRESSION AND DARKNESS" emo shit that gets thrown up as examples of "TEH BLOG OF DA YEEEER".

Because I find that a) most drama - driven writing isn't that good, especially from the source, and b) that since I don't know these people? I just don't care. Remember folks, apathy is the emotional state of the universe. The sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be.

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I'm serious. You look at almost any time one of the \"A-list\" Bloggers recommends something as \"the best blog of the year\", or \"the best writing\", and about 70% of the time, it's a site talking about some personal tragedy. Someone's kid dying of cancer. Someone talking about how hard it is to move after a busted relationship. Someone kvetching that they have a really hard-to-pop zit. Billy won't ask them to the prom. On and on.\n\nWhat, you can't write well unless you're \"sharing\" the trajedies of your life with the world? (Yes, I know, and I meant the plural of trajedi. It's not a tragedy. What happend to Ms. Bhutto in Pakistan? That's a tragedy. That nice young girl who was gang - raped in Iraq in a legally - protected manner? That's a tragedy. You get dumped and move? That's just life.)\n\nI swear, it's like these idiots are wannabe TV News Bobbleheads, only they don't get to ask Mrs. Jones what here feelings were when she realized her husband was dead, so they have to find blogs about trajedi, then wax rhapsodic about how \"This...this is what blogs and the internet are for...the human connection, bringing us together.\" \n\nFucking rubbish is what it is. It's picking over the emotional drama of someone who has no one else to talk to so they post their lives on the internet, and hope for the reactions in comments that they can't get in real life. It's some kind of emotional zombie feeding frenzy via remote access, only instead of \"BRAAAAAAINS\" they walk around chanting \"PERRRSONAL HUMANNNN TRAJEDIIIIII\". Someone wants to post the details about their failed attempts at a relationship with someone who their \"real-life\" friends were probably trying to tell them was all wrong for them anyway, fine, but for the love of DOG, don't elevate it to the level of people out there who are writing to educate, to elevate, to make us laugh, and sometimes do all three.\n\nI'd rather read nothing but a month of PZ frothing on Pharyngula, or Gruber going deep into font and pen esoterica for weeks or Matt's analysis of the bizarreness that is NCAA sports in Oklahoma or Chuck's never ending \"Name that car\" which I never get, than some of this \"OMG, LIFE IS NOT ALWAYS PERFECT, I AM IN A DEEEEP PIT OF DEPRESSION AND DARKNESS\" emo shit that gets thrown up as examples of \"TEH BLOG OF DA YEEEER\". \n\nBecause I find that a) most drama - driven writing isn't that good, especially from the source, and b) that since I don't know these people? I just don't care. Remember folks, apathy is the emotional state of the universe. The sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be.\n\n\n

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