confused???
I dont know what I did or said to piss the blueman off but I guess I did. He really trashed me in my blog yesterday. He said it was becouse Josh Marshall commented on it. Yeah it was truely amazing to have him comment on my blog but I did not ask him to. I am honored that he did but I bet it had nothing to do with me it had to do with the fact I was talking about his web site and he wanted to clarify what he had in mind when he started it.
And yes I know Im not a very good speller but this is the first time somebody has acted so rudely about it.
And most important I am a real person and I only post what I think about I am not a fraud I might have different thoughts then many people do but they are my real thoughts.
And yes I would say things like my dog is to stupid to be let of his leash so I must be dumber than an alabama redneck. and yes I do hug my dog.
Now after saying all that I would like to ask are my bloggs really that bad. If so tell me and I will quit?
I'm really sorry if they are I thought the fact that people read them said they liked them but maybe I;m wrong.
the end
Red, enough people have read and recommended and commented on your posts for you to know that you are very well-liked here. Rutabaga's just off his meds lately. Don't let it get you down.
June 2, 2009 6:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
you had me worried LisB the way I read the comments I thought you agrred with him Im glad you dont
June 2, 2009 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, I was saying that he's the one without any wits, not you. Sorry 'bout the confusion.
June 2, 2009 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
But now and then the blue guy writes a really good post, so I shouldn't really say that.
June 2, 2009 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know how in the hell someone managed to flame over that post. Well, yes I do. Look who flamed.
The best online policy: Ignore the assholes (or bait 'em a bit if you're feeling saucy :-).
June 2, 2009 9:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
A visual description of problems in online dialogue (not safe to view at work or, probably, if you live in Kansas.)
June 2, 2009 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Always welcome here, Redneck. In response to Blueman's comment on your last post, I did some pondering:
Why should it even matter who "Redneck" actually is?
Maybe Redneck is Redneck. Maybe Redneck is someone's alter ego, or someone's idea of a joke, or the spirit of Rin Tin Tin.
Maybe someone's putting together a book of all their online personalities and comparing and contrasting the comments for each one.
I'll accept any of the possibilities. Online communities are a reflection of offline communities:
Some people are who they say they are. Some people aren't who they say they are. Some people aren't who they think they are. Some people are who you want them to be. Some people aren't who you want them to be. Some people are who you'd rather be. Or who you hope to be. Or who you would never want to be. Some people bring out the best in other people, others bring out the worst, others bring out this person inside you that you never even knew existed and it can be glorious.
We're all these things.
We're prisms interacting with other prisms, gliding and colliding, tumbling through time, all of us, evolving, reflecting, multiplying, dividing, integrating, segregating, making light and dark, winding through unfurling dimensions that breathe with our collective experiences.
We are not separate. We are free energy creating and flowing through a kaleidoscope.
June 2, 2009 6:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, redneck, you got me. I believe you're real.
Nobody who could make this shit up would waste his or her time on TPMCafe...
So thrive and prosper, redneck! There's no point in quitting just when the famous Josh Marshall has semi-officially recognized the value of your blogs!
The rest of us should be so lucky, or inspired!
June 2, 2009 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, go blow yourself a new one, blueman
June 2, 2009 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oink?
June 2, 2009 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
You said it, not me!
June 2, 2009 8:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just couldn't avoid that one last...... juicy...... deeelicious...... but entirely gratuitous...... insult, eh Ruta? ;-)
June 2, 2009 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Harharharhar!!!
Brilliant!
But poor old quinn is too busy belaboring the obvious to appreciate the down-on-all-fours persona of "Bleeding Kansas."
June 2, 2009 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rutabaga is right, Red. If Josh took the time put your post on center stage, then he must see something of value in your participation that everyone else has overlooked. Think of it as being elevated into purgatory while the rest of us wait in blogger's hell for our salvation.
June 3, 2009 11:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Keep 'em coming, redneck! For every rec or comment you get, keep in mind that ten more have read it but didn't leave their mark.
June 2, 2009 6:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know, speaking of rec or comment, I sometimes comment but forget to recommend. Wouldn't it be easier if there were two options at the bottom of someone's post?:
Recommend
Recommend & Comment
June 2, 2009 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good point.
June 2, 2009 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
That would make it impossible to comment and not recommend. Its fine just the way it is.
June 3, 2009 3:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
nm I'm wrong.
June 3, 2009 3:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
I would just like to see a meter of how many read it, but how to know whether they opened it and abandoned it, or did not think it worthy of mention would be difficult to verify.
June 3, 2009 3:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
That would be interesting, to know how many "clicks" a post receives. Wouldn't matter if they read or moved along - but it would show a more succinct amount of interest than the recs ... at least in the title/blogger.
June 3, 2009 3:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Red, Work at not giving a sh#t if people don't get you, your blog, or your spelling. If you've got something to say say it, and let the chips fall where they may. Regarding spelling, when you compose your post, words whose spelling aren't recognized show up with a red, (I think), underline. If you 'right click' on the underlined word, a drop down menu will appear offering suggestions for the word the program thinks you are writing. Just scroll up or down to the spelling you want to use and click on it. It will then automatically be inserted into your blog in place of your misspelled word. Cheers!
June 2, 2009 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
thanks for the advice miguel Ill try it in my next blog
June 2, 2009 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Red, buck up. They cannot take your money here. They cannot kick you in the gonads.
And like Rutabaga said, Josh never comments on my stuff.
I get called poopy pants all the time. ha
And everyone will tell you I am a horseshit speller.
But I now open a tab with wikidictionary. Just google Wiki. Then ask for the dictionary. Keep it on tab so to speak and when you want a spelling, pull it down
the end
June 2, 2009 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
One thing - spell check is a firefox feature. It doesn't work like that in my version of Internet Explorer.
I'm a member of the horrid-speller club also; I'd be totally lost now without spell check. Firefox totally won my heart with the feature (WTF is wrong with MS?).
June 2, 2009 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I didn't know that. Firefox does kick IE's ass, but i guess we might have assumed that it would.
June 3, 2009 1:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm with Miguel on this one - write what you feel like writing. Don't apologize and don't sweat the small stuff. By the way, you've been here long enough to have built up some self-esteem. Show it, okay?
June 2, 2009 7:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who gives a damn what that blue thing thinks? Or even if it does?
June 2, 2009 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
The blue (and very ugly) vegetable) is just enormously jealous that Josh never commented on one of his blogs. (He pretended to object that Thera P's blogs don't get his attention but again, he his really jealous that Josh hasn't visited HIM)
I frankly don't know what Liz meant about "rumpole's" occasional forays into sanity; I have not observed any of it so far.
My advice is this: If you care about spelling, write your blog in "Word" so that mistakes will show up, and then cut & paste. I have never had a moments problem in understanding what you meant, and so you choose, redneck, how to go forward, but don't let a blue vegetable discourage you.
June 2, 2009 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
thank you dville Im just glad he;s the only one who hates my blogs
June 2, 2009 7:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
He doesn't hate them; he's jealous that so many people hate HIS!
June 2, 2009 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Red,
I like you here. Your question is a good one. “Confused?” I am. Spelling is arbitrary. Don’t let it get you down. I’ve come up with a few good puns that way. And further,
Where do the missing letters in comments go? That is the real question. The loose letters missing in words… Where do they reside? They may come back as added letters in a previous comment or accumulate in a new word elsewhere. They may feel fragmented or disconnected. They are in need of symmetry and cohesion, balance and clarity of understanding. In other words, like me, they need fiends.
June 2, 2009 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Rut is pretty close to a troll, but often supplies plenty of real info. It's just mixed with plenty of bile (or whatever turns you blue---maybe he's holding his breath).
June 2, 2009 10:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hello workingman,its always good to hear from you.Sounds like your breaking new ground to me, first to get a comment from Josh and first to be told your a ghost, not bad. Keep it up,your posts are always appreciated Red.
June 2, 2009 10:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just dropped in for the first time in weeks, and I am a bit stunned to find that I actually agree with the rancid Rutabaga. I tracked back on a few threads. I think lots of TPM folks have been having the wool pulled over their eyes by old "Redneck." He is good theater, but I just don't buy it. I suspect he might be an old TPMer in disguise. Buyer beware.
June 3, 2009 12:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
I know Red and he's not pulling the wool over anyone's eyes.
June 3, 2009 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I don't know him.
June 3, 2009 12:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Didn't prevent you from a cynical analysis of him though did it, KateO?
Redneck, I enjoy your writing. Being one to click submit before I edit, I can put up some seriously disassembled sentences and unrecognizable words, so I'm not going to criticize your spelling or your typing. Some days I get a lot of recommends, some days not. You never know what you're going to get digging around these parts. Some days, you even get Rutabagas.
June 3, 2009 3:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
I did notice that Billy Glad (notable for his multiple personalities on TPM) has been absent for quite some time. Hmmmm... :)
June 3, 2009 9:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Doesn't sound like many of you picked up that the vegetable is Jacob Freeze incarnate...he let it slip on a post a week or so ago...explains a lot doesn't it?
June 3, 2009 10:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ahhh...so it does :)
June 3, 2009 10:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Red, WHAT ARE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT?! You Got MARSHALL commenting on your blog!! HAHA. We all at some point have some nasty comments on our blogs, and we cry in our beer a bit and then forget about it. If you're averaging over ten recs a post, you've got nothing to complain about.
Rutabaga is one smart f*cker, in my opinion (excuse my language). But he's also mad as hell. And I think most of us have tried at least once being on the receiving end of his vitriolic attacks (sometimes worse than what you got). So welcome to the club. He's got strong opinions, and your union piece ticked him off it seems.
Now get yourself a beer, cool down, and get back to writing!
June 3, 2009 7:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Red, I've lurked here a bit and have appreciated your contributions.
Sounds like what that guy said is part of a conversation he's having with himself and has zip to do with you. He could have gotten rude with anyone - you just happened to be handy at the time.
You said, "And yes I would say things like my dog is to stupid to be let of his leash so I must be dumber than an alabama redneck. and yes I do hug my dog."
I don't know if there's background on your statements, but I've trained dogs for awhile now. No dog is 100% safe off-leash. Their ancient instincts - prey drive, for starters, win out over our puny obedience commands any day. It takes a wise person to know this and not put their dog in danger.
Can you imagine being a dog that never got hugged? Your dog's lucky.
And a big congrats on Josh commenting on your blog! I hope you can let yourself enjoy and brush off any power you've given Rutabaga to bring you down.
Carry on.
June 3, 2009 1:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hi Red.
You know when I was young I really wanted to be an Oxford don. I really did. I mean I even studied Latin and Greek in high school. But I never made it. Instead I had a very ordinary life filled with very ordinary experiences. My disappointment has waned over the years and now has all the emotional force of a Hallmark card sentiment. I am still impressed by people who have achieved notable things in their lives, but not so much that I denigrate myself. I am a good person if not a notable one.
I suppose I should read Shakespeare instead of Redneck but I like to hear the words of someone else who does not claim some notorious achievement. So I read both. That’s what ordinary men do. So thanks for your writing thus far and I hope you keep it up. I especially like your always generous endings.
As for Mr. RR, I suspect that he has ambitions too and has not met them as I did not meet mine. He seems bitter and I understand that as well. Someday perhaps he will accept his own limitations and abandon his need to denigrate others as a way to establish his own notoriety and acclaim.
June 3, 2009 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or maybe the notorious rutabaga actually admires and sympathizes with crazily ambitious culture-adventurers, unless they just fucking give up like the pathetic LarryH, and maybe Rootie's typical friend is a thirty- or forty-something musician who still drags his band from one tenth-rate venue to another and hardly ever even notices that he's absolutely flat broke...
And you can read every diary or comment that Rootie or his "banned on TPMCafe" creator ever wrote without finding one syllable that denigrates anybody who is actually trying to accomplish anything worthwhile, but it's also undeniably true that Rootie hates...
Down-on-all-fours self-pitying slobs like "redneck."
"I would shoot myself if it weren't for my friends on TPMCafe."
Slob!
"I can't even spell words that any second-grader can spell, and don't bother to try..."
"becouse..." (sic)
"I'm a slob."
June 3, 2009 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny you should mention music. You reminded me what it is like when a bunch of competing musicians come to your gig. They all sit in the front row, staring intently and on every face is written “I can do that.” They almost never hear the music. Too bad for them.
Here is a little ditty, one of the first recorded Blues, for your consideration. The sentiment became quite popular for, oh, about a hundred years.
The blues ain't nothing, the blues ain't nothing,
The blues ain't nothing but a good man feeling bad,
The blues ain't nothing but a good man feeling bad,
That's a feeling That I've often had.
Yonder comes, Oh! yonder comes,
Oh! yonder comes the train coming down the track,
Oh! yonder comes the train coming down the track,
To take me away, But it ain't going to bring me back.
June 3, 2009 5:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Call Any Vegetable -- just go right to 1.30 minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZVxZn8tSwQ
Hey Ruda, Frank Zappa TRIED to make you famous!
June 3, 2009 2:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Red, don't let one harsh volley scare you off or get you off balance. Keep doin what you do and listen to what those you feel like you trust have to say.
June 3, 2009 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink