Rant Number Two

[vianegativa]

I would like to say that I am fervently put out by people here on LJ who list you as a friend and then "expect a show" as it were. One person actually has the audacity to remove me as a friend because I didn't post enough, or provide enough "infotainment".

Oh, piss off you sad twat. *pphhhhttt*

If my journal does not entertain, GOOD. Its not for the pompous asses of the world who like to read about others and giggle behind the fans of Spanish ladies. It's for my mental and emotional health. The next person who treats my journal as entertainment and whom gives me lip about not posting enough gets locked out.

I am not your fucking sideshow.

Comments

I agree

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Sing it sister. Sing it.

Just write for yourself. If others find it entertaining, fantastic.

[fargonrob.livejournal.com]

Actually, for some time there I was sort of sorry I wasn't seeing much posting from ya. I haven't seen your furry ass in a few years and there's been no other contact so what we write has been it, so yea, I wanted to see more. But it's not for entertainment value, if I want entertainment I go to the show or go watch how fast folks run out of the dorms when there's a fire alarm (no need to set them off, they do that all by themselves, never a long wait on a saturday night).

Post what ya want to share, and if you don't want to share post it private.

Your god dam space, do with it as you like.

Point of No Return

[vianegativa.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm just weirded out.

I thank God for LJ because its helped me burn away some fog mentally & emotionally, but I'm at the point where I'm about to get into some very heavy shit, and I don't want to be the entertaiment for the brunch queen set.

I think I'm leaning towards scorched-Earth honesty.

Re: Point of No Return

[fargonrob.livejournal.com]

Then set up a friends list and prune it clean.

Or..

get the PC client and create custom friends lists and don't post to the masses about everything.

Or, keep it private. Nothing saying you have to let anyone else read it.

Also, you can disallow comments on any post.

You have options.

There are also some really good folks out there that read around. Don't go totally underground.

That being said, I know I think twice before posting anything that is of a nature that would lead back to somewhere sensative. (like..work).

There are some folks out here pulling for ya. (HUG)

Re: Point of No Return

[randybearwi.livejournal.com]

Matt, I know how you feel about this. I often fear that the same situation may come down to me and therefore my credibility as a human being may be in jeopardy because of the same bitches you talk about. But, as many people have said to me that I should never give power to the "snappers" as they do nothing for themselves in the process.

Like you, I was told by my therapist to keep a journal. Writing heals for me. This is even more personal than my columns, but both forums do help heal my pains and anger that I deal with. I know you know this for yourself and hope that by standing your ground in your two posts will allow you to do as such.

I think the message you should send to your "snappers" would be as DMX said: "this is not a fucking game!" Be strong, Matt! I may not have been as available and gracious back on Bear Pride (and, I do apologize because of the many presuures I had that weekend), but you know I'm still hopefully be considered a friend of yours.

*HUGZ*

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

I am not your fucking sideshow.

Awwwww. ::puts away the unicycle::

::chuckle:: Seriously, it's their problem they dropped you, NOT yours. They have taken any kind of an emotion or a fascination in an actual person, and have reduced it to a sheer empirical number, filtering out everything in the process. And it's those people you feel sorry for.

(HUG)

Amen Hallejuah.....

[uberdaddybear.livejournal.com]

Matt, you know me, and you know I feel, and I havr to say Amen my brother in arms. I really used to get fucking tired of "Oh my God, how dare you post about "insert any genuiely emotional entry here" where *I* could see it?","Your journal used to be fun, but you're getting too deep and you're going to lose readers if you keep it up.","You're journal is a little too emotionally loaded for our tastes as a community". Well, fucking duh. It's a journal, not a newspaper, not a mating call, not a how do I keep all my 82 of my readers intently gazing with drooling mouths at my journal. I have been holding back on a lot of items lately that I have wanted to post, well actually made them private, because there are those for which the material is either too hard for them handles, or it becomes fodder of which the most interesting game of cyber telephone takes lpace I have ever seen. Amazing how "Wow, xxx is really hot" becomes "Nick has been fucking xxx all the time behind yyy's back and he didn't even know. Hey maybe yyy would be in a rebound state now and I could get a piece of that, he's hot!"

My journal is my collection of thoughts, worries, doubts, celebrations, hypothesis, and just plainr rants and raves. I don't know how many people actually go back to the beginning of their journal and look at the transformations that take place over time. I know my journal in the beginning was very deep personal and thought provoking for me. But I also have seen lots of comments and lots of friends gained so I have learned to mix it up and not just be a heavy harvey all the time. But in the end it' still my journal and I will make of it what I want.

The best entertainment is relity based programming. Give em the real you Matt, and fuck em if they don't like it.

So Long, and thanks for all the fish,
Nick