June 29, 2005
It is interesting to note that whenever I have nothing to post about, something invariably makes its way to me to help break me out of my slump. It is also interesting to note the courage that can be found when commenting anonymously on blogs.
Case in point:
Author : theguardian (IP: 203.22.197.115 , fti.arach.net.au)
E-mail : go@fuckyourself.com
URI :
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=203.22.197.115
Comment:
Hey you know to call what Brad did “Criticism” is stretching the truth somewhat. Calling someone a “Mongoloid” and “Deranged” is hardly intelligent, or constructive (I challenge you to prove otherwise). It also says nothing about Ben’s writing (no matter what you think of it). If Brad’s blog really was a “balanced” or “fair” blog reviewing site, things like this would not happen. The fact is his gimmick is that he is very personal and very rude. He should have seen something like this coming.
What I’m more amazed by is how Brad’s readers seem to have adopted a lynch mob mentality to Ben’s reaction. Surely someone else saw this coming? Or are you all as stupid as you seem?
It’s amazing how people like you will kick someone continuously when they’re obviously down. It doesn’t matter if you think it was tongue in cheek - the point is the poor kid obviously took it personally, and decent people would have accepted that and moved along, and left him be. Maybe even an apology. What you’re doing here is actually shoving the knife in deeper. HUBRIS.
LET IT GO. Leave the kid alone.. Understand?
Go pick on someone who is actually willing to fight back then see how brave you feel about persecuting them.
P.S. - And the thing with his photo? Who the hell are you? Do you work for a Tabloid or something? You actually spent precious time in photoshop to deliberately make fun of this poor ‘nobody’? Hey asshole, give me your photo and I can do exactly the same thing. What’s that? You’re too scared to put your photo on the internet? What? Cause you’re afraid some asshole might chop it up and make fun of you? Hey - that makes you the asshole.
Oh, and your “cheer squad”. (Baa, baaaaa…)
Let’s deconstruct shall we?
Hey you know to call what Brad did “Criticism” is stretching the truth somewhat. Calling someone a “Mongoloid” and “Deranged” is hardly intelligent, or constructive (I challenge you to prove otherwise).
Intelligence is clearly shown by knowledge, and proper use, of the word “mongoloid”, or at the very least the ability to research said word.
Mon·gol·oid adj.
3. also mongoloid Offensive. Of or relating to Down syndrome.
And as for being constructive, the direct result of those comments was Ben contemplating giving up blogging altogether. If that’s not constructive, I challenge you to prove otherwise.
If Brad’s blog really was a “balanced� or “fair� blog reviewing site, things like this would not happen.
Because “Destructive criticism at its finest” instantly tells you his reviews are “fair” and “balanced”. Kind of like how Fox News is “fair” and “balanced”.
- the point is the poor kid obviously took it personally, and decent people would have accepted that and moved along, and left him be. Maybe even an apology.
You are absolutely right.
Benjamin, on behalf of myself and Brad at Blogg’d, I humbly apologize for pointing out how bad your writing is. I would have apologized sooner, but I was recovering from injuries sustained as a result of trying to gouge my own eyes out after reading McSean. And you don’t look like you have Down Syndrome. Really.
LET IT GO. Leave the kid alone.. Understand?
In case you hadn’t noticed, I WAS until you jumped to your lovers defense.
Go pick on someone who is actually willing to fight back then see how brave you feel about persecuting them.
You mean like someone who posts anonymous comments on a blog in the defense of an inept writer without leaving a legitimate e-mail or website URL for me to sufficiently answer the challenge? Ok.
You actually spent precious time in photoshop to deliberately make fun of this poor ‘nobody’? Hey asshole, give me your photo and I can do exactly the same thing. What’s that? You’re too scared to put your photo on the internet?
It took all of 5 seconds of my precious time. My Photoshop skills are such that I merely need to think of an idea, and I can will it into being as a .PSD file. Since you were courageous enough NOT to provide me with a photo of yourself, I was forced to improvise.
As for MY photo, funny, but I could have sworn my pictures were all over this site. I only have a gallery full of ‘em, not to mention my badass pic in the upper right clearly demonstrating how I feel about anonymous commenters. Didn’t you notice how fucking awesome I look as Pope? No? What a shame. Now get on your knees and kiss the holy scepter. And get more of Benny-Boy’s gay tree-hugging rainbow-flag wearing hippie friends to help you. The more the merrier. You can all have a circle jerk as you sing “Kumbaya”.
Now I know those last remarks were neither “intelligent”, nor “fair” and “balanced”, but I felt I had to dumb it down for you. You know. With you being from Australia and all.
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June 24, 2005
In a recent review on Blogg’d, Aussie activist/writer (read: hippie/Stephen King wanna-be) Benjamin Solah was the subject of a burn. He apparently did not take the review well and responded with a literary flair that only an aspiring author could manage. Thought provoking words like “asshole” and “fuckwit”. Clearly the work of a master.
Being the insensitive prick that I am (and a total comment whore to boot), I left a comment (which was subsequently deleted by the author, and I use that term loosely) on a post asking for votes and ideas for his new domain name. My contributions were:
www.cantbuyasenseofhumorwithamilliondollars.com www.bensucksassasawriter.com
Both of which are available through GoDaddy for only $8.95 a year. I know, I know. Genius you say. Unfortunately, Ben did not think so and e-mailed me this response to my venture into creative writing:
Benjamin Solah bsolah@froggy.com.au wrote:
I suppose you got to my site through Blog’d? That insensitive little twat who is so insecure about himself he spends his blogging space making childish insults. How about you just fuck off and get a life.
Benjamin Solah
http://writingcorner.cjb.net
Never one to back down from a little flame, I decided to respond with an e-mail of my own.
Wow. If this is as creative as your writing gets, and an example of how you handle criticism, I suggest you keep your day job Benny.
Brad’s reviews are very tongue in cheek. If you stop, get over the “insult” of getting burned, and take a good look at your blog, you might actually have a good laugh. Ever heard of self-deprecating humor Ben? Or perhaps even poked fun at yourself? Brad’s reviews are little different, and far from malicious. Most people who find themselves burned can appreciate the humor in it, and in THEMSELVES. Alas there are a few exceptions. If you put your thoughts and literary works in an open forum such as a website or blog, such criticisms are bound to occur. How you respond to them shows the rest of the world what kind of man you are. So far we are not impressed.
So what happens if you (god forbid) become a published author? What happens if a book or short story you write gets a scathing review from a critic? Do you learn from it? Do you take the opinions of others and use it to strengthen your writing abilities? Or do you throw yourself off the Sydney Harbour Bridge. You strike me as an intelligent (well, vaguely if this is how you respond to all your critics) young man Ben. Have you NEVER received a negative critique on any of your works? Or have you only shown them to your friends who are too afraid to hurt your obviously fragile feelings? Why REQUEST for feedback on your blog when you are not prepared for it? You should specify “positive feedback that will stroke my ego and self esteem would be great”.
So let us see your writing Ben. Let us see how “insensitive” Brad really is. Let us see if HE can take what he dishes. As you probably already know, he has challenged you to write a review of his site. So let’s see it. A scathing, tongue in cheek, INTELLIGENT, satirical review of Blogg’d. You ARE a writer, aren’t you?
Prove Brad, and the rest of us “fuckwits” who need to “fuck off and get a life”, wrong.
Love,
k@os
http://www.kaoticism.com/home/
I thought the “Love, k@os” bit was a nice touch. You know. To show I mean no ill-will and all.
I received another e-mail from “Bug-Eyed” Benny.
Benjamin Solah bsolah@froggy.com.au wrote:
I will not write a review on his website. It’s not the critisism of my blog or my writing that offended me, it was the petty comments the ones about my looks and stupid stuff like that and the comments afterwards, and then you leave that comment on my own blog thinking it’s funny to insult me.
As for taking critisism of my writing there is certain etiquete involved and all comments must be constructive and well thought out. I do regret lashing out but that was the way I felt at the moment.
Peace,
Benjamin Solah
http://writingcorner.cjb.net
Far be it for me to let such a nice e-mail go unanswered.
Actually, I do think it’s funny. I would have thought that plainly obvious. Perhaps I was not trying hard enough. You should see what I put on MY blog. But, I know you’re not going to want to give me any traffic. Only 110,000 hits since April, 2005. Oh, congratulations on 10,000 hits since August, 2004 (and probably another 500 just from Blogg’d alone…).
Peace,
k@os
Personally, I felt the comments about his looks WERE constructive criticism.
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June 23, 2005
Why is the media wasting so much airtime on Brennan Hawkins? In case you’ve been under a rock, he is the 11 yr old Boy Scout that was found after being lost for 4 days in the Utah wilderness.
Instead of marveling at the boys courage, how about a slap upside the head for being so fucking dumb as to get lost from his Boy Scout pack in the first place? Jesus Christ it’s Aron Ralston all over again. If we want an amazing story of survival, how about that 4 year old boy they are calling “Little Tarzan” after surviving A WEEK in the forests of some backwater eastern European nation by eating wild strawberries and drinking rainwater. 4 YEARS OLD! I have yet to find a single news story about it online.
Well, I guess Utah IS dangerous. It is crawling with all those goddamn Mormons after all.
While we’re on the subject of stupid, kudos to Spike TV for no longer carrying WWE Raw after August. I mean, it was only one of their highest rated shows. TV for men my ass. MXC and Ultimate Fighter isn’t enough. CSI? Reruns of another networks hit. How do their board meetings go?
“I know, let’s show reruns of MacGyver and Star Trek the Next Generation!”
Because when you think of what a manly man would watch, you instantly think of MacGyver and Star Trek the Next Generation
Tools.
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June 22, 2005
k@os TV proudly presents:
Farting Preacher II: Fart Harder
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!
I think I wet myself.
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June 20, 2005
This post may not be suitable for younger audiences.
I have come to the point of suicide. Every day an image haunts me. It fills every waking hour of my day. The sounds reverberate in my head at night. I cannot take it anymore. I have reached my breaking point. One of us has to go.
I’m talking to you, Barney.
Oh how I loathe you. Words cannot begin to describe. My son adores you, which is why I have come to despise you. Every day I have to listen to your insipid show at least a dozen times. I have fantasies of your death, you know. I dream of driving a pick-axe through your fat purple head. I want to shove a garden hose down your throat and turn it on until your innards burst. I want to lock you up in San Quentin so you can be ass-raped by the inmates on death row, and then stabbed repeatedly with a shiv. I want to push you off the Empire State Building, and watch you both splatter as you land on Paris Hilton while I laugh. I want to fly you to Fallujah wearing an “I love George W. Bush” t-shirt, and watch the video online as you are decapitated. I want to grind you into dino-burgers, cook you over a kiawe wood grill, and feed you to Fred Flintstone.
And that song. That fucking song.
Sing along with me:
I hate you, you hate me
let’s get together and kill Barney
with a knife to the back and a bullet to the head
now that purple thing is dead.
It’s you or me you goddamn purple Freakasaurus Rex.
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June 19, 2005
Johann Schiller
Happy father’s day pops. The only father I’ve ever known, and needed to know.
And happy father’s day to me. Because I kick ass. More quotes.
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
Red Buttons
To be a successful father, there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway
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June 16, 2005
Zena started her first day of kindergarten yesterday at St. Patrick School. Well, technically its a Summer school orientation that she attends before starting regular full-time kindergarten.
Ready for school!
@ her seat in class . . .
After school . . .
After school . . .
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June 8, 2005
The following is a guest post by norsegod.
This also fits in nicely with I AM MAD AS HELL ABOUT THE WAY THINGS ARE AND I’M JUST NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANY MORE!! so head over to Corporate Crap and Other Dubious Wisdom and check it out.
I want to bring to the American public’s attention a large wrong doing by our lovely political leaders. It all started with the newest Supreme Court ruling on State Rights. You see our Supreme Court just ruled against a lady for LEGALLY growing Marijuana in the state of California.
For those of you that are not aware of the story I will briefly elaborate.
This woman had a prescription to use Medicinal Marijuana. She was growing 6 plants per the law and was giving it to friends of hers that also had a prescription. The Federal Government raided her house and arrested her for illegal possession of an illegal drug. Keep in mind in the state of California medical Marijuana is legal, and she had a prescription. This case got taken all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled that Federal Laws would precede any and all state laws. This Lady will now go to prison for legally possessing this drug in a state where it was voted on by the citizens to be legal.
How can we call this a SUPREME Court? Now our Congress is trying to pass a bill to force everyone in the US to be part of the drug war. If you do not participate YOU will be arrested and fined. It states that if you see someone pass a joint (the gov’t calls this drug trafficking) or even just use an illegal substance and you do not turn this person over to the law within 24 hours you can be prosecuted, imprisoned, and fined. That’s right YOU can be put in jail for not snitching. They are calling this the snitch bill… We have to stop this insanity.
I must say that I am for the legalization of all drugs. You may not realize it but all natural drugs w/ the exception of cannabis are legal in some form. When was the last time you heard of medical heroin, or medical cocaine, or medical opium, yet all of these drugs are used for medicinal purposes and people also use these drugs recreationally. What are drugs used for any way? Are drugs not used for medicinal purposes? It just so happens that Marijuana can be used for several things with no bad side effects. It can be used for Strep Throat, Types of Cancer, Glaucoma, and even to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
While we are at it lets discuss the War On Drugs. Before we go condemning the legalization of drugs lets look at things this way. The majority of people that they put behind bars are users and low-level dealers. The reason this is, is that the numbers look better to put 500 small time drug dealers than to put away 200 big time dealers. For those of you who have kids you should want the legalization of drugs than anyone. The majority of drug dealers in large cities are children. The reason is that kids are joining drug gangs for money. We have forced our children to this. Kids are not stupid. They know that they can go to work for McDonald’s for minimum wage or make $500.00-$1000.00 a week selling drugs… Part Time… This drug war is killing our kids and wasting the valuable time of our police forces. Since the declaration of the drug war the numbers of accidents due to drunk driving has increased because the cops are busy harassing some dude for possessing a joint.
I do not want to waste too much of everyone’s time so I will close with this. This is not just about legalizing Marijuana, this is about freedom. The Government is trying to control our lives once again and unless we stand up and fight they will succeed. Please contact your congressmen and state representatives and say no to 1528, The Snitch Bill. Please do it for your children and their freedom. If the government wins this then what will they try and control next? If you live in a state that has legalized medical Marijuana stand up and protect your state from the Feds…
POWER TO THE MASSES!!!
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Customs lets man in U.S., but takes bloody chainsaw, sword
BOSTON — On the morning of April 25, Gregory Despres hitchhiked to the Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained by what appeared to be blood.
Customs officials confiscated the cache of weapons and fingerprinted Despres, but allowed him to enter the United States — not knowing the gruesome scene about to unfold in the hitchhiker’s hometown.
The following day, in the village of Minto, New Brunswick, the decapitated body of a well-known country musician named Frederick Fulton was discovered on his kitchen floor. Police found the 74-year-old man’s head in a pillow case under a kitchen table and the body of his common-law wife, Veronica Decarie, stabbed to death in a bedroom.
Portion of article reprinted without permission.
Wow. Nice to know in this post-9/11 day and age, that our borders are well protected.
I’m just too dumbfounded to post a witty or angst-ridden rant about this.
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June 4, 2005
The WWE show scheduled for July 2nd, was postponed to October 15th.
k@os sad.
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