Associations

Mike Golby found another "friend", Stone Reynolds, who seems to be unhappy at Mike's treatment of another weblogger, Mike Sanders.

However, in an amazing display of twisted brotherhood, Mike Golby states:

There's something decidedly odd about this guy. His half-formed views appall me but I find, dare I say it, a sense of humor, in his writing. And a sense of humor, they say, is everything (of course, it could be a mask hiding naked hatred but, like my friend Christopher Locke, I am a professional and can handle any situation should it turn ugly).

So, I'll be stopping by at a hell of a note from time to time - if only to swap gratuitous insults and find out what's going down in the world of racism, sexism, anything lewd and smutty, the good ol' boys, the loony right, etc. Look at it this way. If St0ne Freeman is a friend of WonderChicken's, how can he not be a friend of mine?

To which Stone replies:

I promptly posted a comment there expressing my thanks and overall flabbergasmic response to his review.
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Sounds good to me...and PageCount: Into The Lake of Fire joins my linklist

All of this would be interesting, except for the fact that I got dragged into this indirectly.

It seems that Stone doesn't have too high an opinion of me for my "mistreatment" of Mike Sanders, either. But he continues his lack of high opinion elsewhere with little tidbits like the following:

And, speaking of MT and self-respecting 'bloggers, burningbird, for all her l33t skillz, needed help from stavros to get MT installed. I'm not sure what that says about MT, or the flamingfowl...but if Dave had any difficulty with the installation, he hasn't yet mentioned it.

Seeing all this, Mike Golby writes:

And, from there on in (while doffing his cap this way and that to various and vicious warbloggers of note), St0ne proceeds to rip into Shelley (for whom he nurses a dark and secret passion), Jeneane, Dave Winer, and me.

To which Freeman responds with:

There's something decidedly odd about this guy", Golby notices. I can't argue with that, but I vigorously dispute the "dark and secret passion" he alleges I nurse for Shelley Powers.

I have a sense of humor. I really do. And I appreciate that both Stone and Mike got a chuckle out of this interchange. However, I found my association with the phrase and the entire exchange to be demeaning.

A simple phrase -- funny or interesting for one person, embarrassing or painful to another. Thoughtless associations. Stupid word tricks.

Guilty as charged.

I wrote a posting last week that talked about Mike and Chris Locke and how much I admire and envy their writing skills. In this posting I used an association, a phrase, that looking back now I realize I shouldn't have used. I pulled and re-posted this several times since, but pulled it permanently today.

Posted by Bb at May 08, 2002 11:55 AM