Red Alert!
Holy Christ! I just got namechecked in some stranger's blog! Does anyone know the etiquette involved here? Here's the background. One of my friends... we'll call her Laurie M. - no, let's call her L. Marhoefer, has a blog that I and several of her friends and relations that I don't know, or at least don't know well post on. Anyway, she also has links to the blogs of a couple of these unknown friends up on her blog and I occasionally wander over and read the latest. Imagine my surprise when I saw that one of them had posted a new entry and read this:
I recently introduced my little sister to YSA's blog. Naturally, she was enchanted. Horrifyingly, she was particularly taken with one of YSA's frequent commentators, a bane on my existence known as "Kid Showbusiness". Of course I had to set her straight.
CBAM: we do not support kid showbusiness's comments
CBAM: he is mean to me!
LS: i can't help it
LS: they are so funny
CBAM: no!
......
LS: ewwwww i don't like when kid showbusiness is mean to my sissy
LS: fuck him
So.... does anyone have any suggestions for what I should do? Is it considered "beyond the pale" to just randomly post a response on someone's blog uninvited - even if the post you're responding to is at least peripherally about you? Or does the fact that she's posted the thing up for the whole internet (in theory at least) to see constitute an invitation for me to respond if I happen to see it? I'm undecided as to the correct course of action and so I invite your input.
Oh, and just to set the record straight, I am not "mean" to her. I have, on occasion, held her up to a certain amount of ridicule, purely in jest, as I have with you all at one time or another. But honestly, normally I don't actually even explicitly acknowledge anyone else's posts over there. I mostly confine myself to addressing the person who's actual blog it is and her actual blog posts.
And I'm not looking to get into some kind of flame war or whatever, I just think that a response of some kind may be called for. Or should I refrain? Advise me, oh wise and noble internet personages! Gracias.
Kid Showbusiness departs....
posted by Kid Showbusiness @ 2:18 AM
4 Comments:
I guess since no one gave advice, you responded? I like the response. I mean, who can ridicule someone who could be a model? It's impossible.
Well, actually, I did get some advice, but most of my friends use either MySpace or Livejournal so the advice I got was posted over there. Since I had to create a Blogger account to post on your blog I figured I'd just go ahead and have a third blog. They're all the same really, this one is pretty much for your benefit, in case you ever want to read it. As it seems you occasionally do. So, everything is going according to plan.
Oh, you mean you have another blog? How do I go t here? Is that that page you made that plays music really loud over and over, like when you played in your car only that Rob Stewart song for like, a whole year? And you had a tape of just that song?
Yeah, there's also a blog... It's all just the same entries though. I type it into the myspace one and then just cut and paste them into the livejournal one and this one. The link to the livejournal is
http://aardvarknation.livejournal.com/
You may have to type it in, apparently. And there's a link to the myspace page on the blogger page. Anyway, like I said, it's all just the same stuff anyway.
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