Can We Handle the Competition?
I’ve been spending some time reading the new blogs being posted on the “Tilghman Times” website. Most of my friends don’t seem to like them, I honestly don’t know why. I’m particularly pleased with Joe G’s “Shore Politics” blog. It’s a pretty good read. I also think that Gwen Garland’s “Biz Buzz” is going to be great over the long haul. I just wish she had picked a better title. You’ve probably noticed that I like alliteration, maybe a little too much, but “Biz Buzz” is a tad much even for me.
Now personally, I think that the blogs put out by Greg Bassett / Erick Sahler and by Susan Parker are a waste of disk space and band width - but not for the reasons you might think. They just aren’t writing about the kind of stuff that interests me. Nothing personal. I’m particularly disappointed in Susan Parker’s because this woman is a truly talented editor. I may not like what I read on the op-ed page but if she can write 10% as well as she edits, and she would write about topics that appeal to me, I think that her blog would be the best of the bunch. But I don’t get to pick her subject matter.
As for the Bassett / Sahler blog, same complaint. They just aren’t writing about subjects that appeal to me.
Now I do understand that they aren’t writing for me. It’s like a loyal reader of “Delmarva Dealings” who is kind enough to offer his occasional criticism. If I write about something or someone outside of the Lower Shore he is offended. Fair enough! But, as I have reminded him time and again, I don’t write for him. I don’t get paid for this job, so I write about things that interest me. I can only guess that the good folds writing for the “Tilghman Times” blogs are doing the same.
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“They just aren’t writing about the kind of stuff that interests me. Nothing personal.”
They’re writing about the kind of stuff that truly interests no one.
The authors of those blogs are, at best, exceedingly flat and boring characters. At worst, they advocate hypocrisy, fear mongering, and degeneracy with their finest prose.
Their lives revolve around 3rd grade level grammatically correct sentences that wilt the mind and droop the eyelids.
How could it be otherwise? Authors of mass appeal cannot rise above their readership.
To be truly interested in something, as written text should evoke, may be verified by a brain scan recording anything other than a flat line, and this is not even a possibility with these authors’ regular readership.
People and their activities are as I have previously observed and shared, and I shall now quote myself:
“They filed back to their homes to rest their weary souls on the couch in time for the Ball Game, where on little lit up glass screens throughout the neighborhood the throws, catches, swaying paunches, and arching tobacco spittle seemed somehow more meaningful this night than the same proceedings last week.”
ROTFLMAO!