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WEIRDNESS AND BLOGGING

i’ve been asked the question “why do you blog” many times now. we all have. you can’t answer it simply. there are so many reasons. i started surfing blogs about 2 years ago when i discovered dooce’s site. her links led me all over. matt and mel started a blog around that time, and matt set me up with one; but i didn’t have a clue what i was supposed to do with it. don’t know what the heck happened to it – never touched it.

i loved reading the blogs (well some of them) just cuz i love reading people’s stories. some “trivial,” some important stuff. it all interests me. unless the blog is mean. or arrogant. or immature. or stupid. or icky. you know what i mean. but i’m not getting into that snooty debate about the value or non-value of some blogs. i just figure if i don’t like it, i’m gone. and i hope others have the same reaction here. as i’ve said before, it’s a big www, if you don’t like what you find here, look somewhere else. i’m not looking to attract a big audience – i’m writing for me and my family mostly. and if we’ve come across some really neat people doing this, great!

but...

at the wedding, our friend (well, he’s really matt and mark’s friend) brett asked “which one is –d?” i knew EXACTLY to whom he was referring -- -d of www.kirkwoodinn.blogspot.com. brett has been “trolling” at our sites for the past couple of months and has seen -d’s name on many comments. he assumed we know her. personally. in person. in reality. i told him that we had never met -d, we only knew her from blogworld. and some i-m’s. so we know her, but we don’t KNOW her. he was completely taken aback. we talked about kazoofus, michelle, and others at that point. brett could NOT believe that we did not “know” these people. YOU people.

you see, he just thought it was “weird” the way we are so open on our sites. he told me he felt like he was eavesdropping when he first started reading, but that he wouldn’t feel that way anymore as he REALLY knows us. as opposed to “just” knowing who we are REALLY first before, if ever, we meet.

brett has known jax for a good long time (jax and brett’s younger brother were buddies when they were in early elementary school) but learned for the first time about jax’s addiction and recovery on jax’s site. he learned that mark was MOVING IN WITH KT. i think he was a little shocked at that, too. he’s always known about our politics, but i’m sure he’s learned more about bill and me than he was anticipating.

i asked brett when bill and i saw him a couple days after the wedding, “so, brett, are we like the weirdest people you know?” he replied, “pretty much, but with you guys it IS basically “nothingbutlove.” thanks, brett.

but the blogging thing. yeah, it is weird. i know that combining my site and bill’s is more than a little odd, as we approach this thing so differently. hope you’ll be tolerant of that. skip over my grey stuff if you want and go directly to bill’s black stuff. or vice versa.

this post didn’t come out the way i wanted – shoulda made an outline. but you know what i mean. cuz you know me.

Posted by Stacey at August 27, 2003 03:56 PM