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    Reading for April 14th

    http://natthedem.com/blog/?p=546
    136 days ago in ripples of hope · Authority: 12

    Here’s my recommended reading for April 14th: NPR: How "Bitter" Are Voters About Obama Comments? Thomas Frank On Obama: Not That Controversial The Unapologetic Mexican: The Thieving Weave NYT: With Mentors at Their Sides, Girls in Need Write Their Stories and Find New Lives ShareThis

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    A Post that Ends Up Not Being in Praise of Stubble

    http://tinycatpants.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/a-post-that-end...
    137 days ago in Tiny Cat Pants · Authority: 147

    I wanted to write a post about stubble, about how I like to rub my fingers across a stubbly cheek and how I sometimes let the legs go a little longer between shavings than I should because I like the prickle and I was going to write an ode to how much I like the kind of raw reminder of kissing a stubbly faced man. But, alas, now I’m all fixated on whether I am fucking things up.  That there are important things that need to be said in ways that would force people to l should be saying.  But because I’m off crocheting genitalia or talking about plants or dropping “fuck”s here or there, people don’t take me as seriously as they should. But here’s the thing.  I don’t think people should take me seriously.  I’m not the most qualified person to be talking about anything other than my experience of the world as seen through my eyes and filtered through me.  I’ve got no other expertise to offer. Today I got an email from a person I’m still sore at that went: Just cruised your blog.  You didn’t post anything on the girls beating some poor child with the intention of posting it and getting famous?  I thought you were a social commentator?  I couldn’t watch 30 seconds of that video.  It was absolutely stomach turning.  The girl’s parents are on youtube and I am amazed at their restraint.  Maybe you did post it and I just didn’t find it. And I have no idea what the emailer is talking about.  I don’t know about any girls beating anyone else for any reason.  And I don’t know what it means that I’m supposed to be some kind of social commentator.  I don’t have a beat.  I’m not getting paid the big bucks or any bucks to monitor the world for fucked up shit in order to comment on it and tell you what I think. I write what I write here because that’s how my brain works. I mean, I know it seems, sometimes, when you’re reading blogs that it’s like regular writing but free–so here’s a music blog, there’s a political blog, there’s a feminist blog, there’s a mommy blog–and everyone has their little identifiable niches you can easily stick them in. And I guess that that’s sometimes the case, or it’s always the case in some instances.  But that’s not what I’m doing. I want to be well-thought-of, for sure.  But I’m not sure I want to be a respected blogger.  I don’t want people to feel like they can put their own expectations on me and hold me accountable for when I don’t meet them. I’d rather be court jester than the king’s adviser, because one can tell the truth about the king in public and the other cannot, at least not often. I don’t know.  That’s not an entirely satisfying thing either. Uncle says “Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.” and I think that’s a wise position to take.  I do do this to entertain me. But come now, of course I also want to entertain you. I just am uneasy with trying to figure out where the line between hoping to entertain you and owing it to you to entertain you in the most pleasing to you way is.  Where is the line between opening myself up to you in order to reach you and shaping myself in order to reach as many of you as possible? To use art in a general sense, where is the line, when blogging, between art and marketing? I don’t know, I guess, the real answers to any of these things.  Maybe they’re not even really quandaries. Anyway, such mulling over seems to be going around today.  Check Lindsay and her thoughtful post on mommy-blogging and Nezua and his thoughtful post on the unique features of a creative life expressed in this medium.