Wed 2 Mar 2005 @00:12
There’s a lot of crap recently on some of the blogs I read. These are not crappy blogs. I mean that feces are a prominent part of the content of the posts. And, according to the comments, these are among the most popular post topics a blogger can choose: constipation, diarrhea, seeing crap, smelling crap, (and, of course, the crap we have to put up with at work or from our families, but that’s a little different). Before reading those, I never would have considered writing about my last night in Costa Rica or my kidney stone — two completely opposite ends of the regularity spectrum.
While now I can look back on spending most of the night curled up on a hotel room bathroom floor with detached humor, it’s not an image I really want to put in YOUR head. The search for a pharmacy open on a Sunday hours before an international flight was an unplanned scavenger hunt of sorts. What fun! And, since I’m basically a very private person, why would I want to disclose that five days into the kidney stone attack is the only time I have ever taken a laxative? Why would you want to read that?
March 2nd, 2005 at 15:00
Oh, dear God. I hope you are speaking facetiously of your own situation. . .unless you are using second person narrative perspective to write about other people’s gastronomic misadventures. By the way, did you know that both “facetiously” and “abstemiously” both have all six vowels in alphabetical order? Oh,heck. I probably told you that already in happy hour.
–You can call me “Mike Glester” if you want
March 2nd, 2005 at 15:00
I didn’t mean to use “both” twice in the same sentence.
Nor do I really mean to double-post.
The Internets are such wonderful things, eh?
March 2nd, 2005 at 15:56
Hehe. I guess you missed Dawn’s post about her Shitty Day? I don’t mind it as much, as long as the author tells it in a funny way (which she did). However, like you, I’m surprised at some other things people reveal that I would consider way too private. I don’t mind reading it at all, but I’m just not comfortable putting it out there.
March 2nd, 2005 at 17:06
I’m glad someone noticed the fecal theme going around. Someone should start a meme.
March 2nd, 2005 at 23:07
I think the same should be true about blogs as is in life: If you’ve got nothing good to blog, don’t blog anything at all.:)
March 3rd, 2005 at 12:40
But Janet, blogging about almost dying shitting apparently IS good blogging material. I got the most comments ever (over 50)!
Pisser over at thepissedkittycometh.blogspot.com has a whole directory of posts solely written about bloggers’ bathroom escapades. It’s hysterical.
And Tim? Tell me more about your kidney stones and laxative use!!