"i yam what i yam": ethics of blogging
Popeye (c) 2002 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
On the fifth day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
Five Golden Rings
Four Calling Birds
Three French Hens
Two Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
popeye turned 75! being an avid fan of cartoons long before i could even say, "dada", i know by heart all about popeye and his gang -- his first mate (and archenemy) bluto, his looonnngtime girlfriend olive oyl, swee'pea ("my brad's" pet name for me), and wimpy (my fellow hamburger lover).
Popeye is an icon.
"What adult cares whether some star does a voice? And especially what kid cares? The kids don't give a hang if Brad Pitt's doing a voice. No mortal actor can do what a voice person can do."
-- Billy West
you said it, buddy. if someone were to ask me about the voices behind the classic cartoons i've been watching, i wouldnt know what to answer! as long as it's good animation, i'm up for it.
anyhoo, i promised myself my blog wont have anything remotely political or distastefully wicked this holiday season, but i cant help it. quite a number of bloggers provoked me, i'm just about ready to bite their freakin' heads off.
As web logs proliferate -- the boundaries between public and private are being transformed. Unconstrained by journalistic conventions, bloggers are blurring the lines between public events and ordinary social interactions and changing the way we date, work, teach and live... citizens will have to develop new understandings about what parts of our lives are on and off the record... 70 to 80 percent [of blogs] are varieties of personal journals. A few have broken into the Technorati Top 100: for example, dooce, No. 39, advertises herself as ''that girl who lost her job'' and ''managed to alienate her family because of her Web site.'' Although men and women blog in roughly equal numbers, personal bloggers are more likely to be women than men. And the favorite topic of personal bloggers is sex.
i accidentally (and regrettably) came across a couple of very crass bloggers: ms. motormouth's chief concern was to bitch about her poor mom 24/7 (and i'd rather not talk about her reasons because they're just full of shit), and this other beastly site just cant stop talking about sex like their lives depended on it. if we really wanted self-promotion, there are smart ways to go about it, why be the amoeba that feeds off of the parasites that are hosted by the slime that feeds off of pond scum?
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