Blogs are allowing you to cheat.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 14 comments link this post***We interrupt this blog to speak directly to the camera and address the audience***
You is you, the person reading this.
You're cheating.
You know who you are. You know who I'm talking to. I know you, but barely.
You get to find out everything -- what I'm doing, what I'm thinking, what's happening, my theories-full-of-crap, my personal mishaps, my semi-humorous outbursts -- without me getting any return. I pick my own brain for you -- YOU! -- and I get emails offering natural Viagra and refinance options for my non-existent mortgage.
All take and no give.
For you, gold. For me, fake emails trying to get me to reveal PayPal login information or bizarre requests by haphazard visitors.
This seems unfair, and though I know life isn't fair, it just seems unfair.
What do you do, get on the Internet, eventually make your way to Lone Prairie, read the blog, think "hmmm" and then go on your merry way? What have you done for me lately, Janet asked, and I second that.
I have no tip jar, no Google Ads, no requests for money. Gold, for free.
(Unless it's just copper. But does copper negate?)
Perhaps bloggers are to grow comfortable shouting into silence. Some kind of law, expecting nothing for the good of mankind.
My nature is not that noble.
I'm independently petty, selfish and needy.
I demand a revoking of the Law of Diminishing Returns. The more I put out there, the less I get. I have no intention of quitting. I think I've got to find a way to even the scale a bit.
I'm talking to you. I'm talking to the wind and I'm losing interest.
In you.
***And we now return you back to the regular Lone Prairie Blog***
Labels: blogging
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14 Comments:
Hello! I am a Somalian prince. I need to leave my country. I need your help to transfer my 13.4 million dollar (USD) fortune. If you simply provide me with your banking account information, social security number and mother's maiden name, I will transfer my money into your account, and upon my arrival in the United States, withdraw only $13 million. The rest is yours.
You shouldn't pass on this deal.
If you do, may I interest you in some \/i@g@r@?
By 
Todd, at
18/4/07 13:40
Larry Hagman ("Dallas," "I Dream of Jeannie" et al) had a similar issue: his fans would get a photo and an autograph, but what would he get in return? He started asking autograph seekers to sing him a song or tell him a joke. (Then he stopped asking for jokes because people would tell filthy ones.)
I don't know what the online equivalent would be.... But I'm happy to have filled my Larry Hagman trivia quota for today.
By Jared, at
18/4/07 13:52
See, this is the kind of interactive gold I'm looking for.
Keep on truckin'.
(I don't know why I said that.)
By 
Julie, at
18/4/07 13:58
I often sing a song while reading your posts. You've never heard that?
By Jim, at
18/4/07 16:00
Hey I think Larry Hagman got a donated liver?
By , at
18/4/07 20:01
You'll have to follow the links on people's comments to really see what they have to give.
By jimcaserta, at
19/4/07 08:33
Well Missy, I am almost scared to ask what brought on this particular entry? I did get a good laugh out of the driving post.
By Jacqui, at
19/4/07 10:02
This entry was brought on by purposeful randomness.
He/she knows who he/she is.
Vague enough?
(It's Larry Hagman!)
By Julie, at
19/4/07 11:12
I knew it had to be Larry Hagman: he absolutely is all take and no give.
And he wants us all to turn over our telephone tax credit this year to carbon offset projects and crap like that. The bum.
By Jared, at
19/4/07 11:59
Damn Larry Hagman. Carbon offsets.
I'm going to use my tax refund from this year to buy charcoal briquettes and get the hibachi to smoke for the entire summer. That ought to offset any carbon offset.
By Julie, at
19/4/07 12:28
Yeah! Take that, Larry Hagman!
I was going to burn some plastic grocery sacks to celebrate Earth Day, but your hibachi method of offsetting the offsets is much better. (And would give off a more pleasing aroma.)
By Jared, at
19/4/07 12:55
>>He/she knows who he/she is.
>>Vague enough?
I don't know.. if you are too vague then maybe he/she won't realize that you are addressing them.
By , at
27/4/07 21:31
Larry.
So nice of you to join the conversation...
It's all about you.
By Julie, at
28/4/07 16:50
>> It's all about you.
Hmmm, I guess I'm flattered...
but how do I know you don't just say that to all of your random visitors? :)
By , at
29/4/07 23:09
