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July 31st 2007 an advice for free >

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Q. what else can i say? well, an advice for free: you could avoid people commenting, so you won't know how your readers are alike and you won't be disappointed by them.

A. Why, mr. Girogio, I get two comments a month when I'm lucky, what difference would it make? Plus, I do want to know people's feelings about what I write. To me, this is one of the few good reasons left for blogging... If anything, I am tired of my unknowns to be so silent. But I don't want to really change anything, or to really complain about anything. I write so little, with such difficulty. And I'd rather stop writing in public than close the comments down. To quote that supposed anonymous blogger (which isn't anonymous, really) in the previous post was just a way to lash a feeling out, that's all.
I don't know if this happens to the others too, if it happens to you. I think it is the impressions you accumulate with time. I think that I will never know how my readers are like -- but I keep growing involuntary feelings about them, how they are and how they are not, layers of impressions, probably false, that can worn out the relation with this theoretical readership, and with the general idea of writing "for the readers". Especially when writing terrifies you because it became so darn serious and personal and exposing. Which is the reason for the other quote... I think. It probably was there for those who were supposed to understand it. Although I am not so sure anymore [goes on mumbling incoherently]



February 15th 2007 in defense of commentators, follows-up >

because I like the strain that came out with it, all pissed off, I decided to quote myself from a comment I just made here. Always in defense of commentators:

...I never read Genna's blog... but I read the post you talk about. I totally disliked it. Patronizing and bossy. And really exaggerated. He wants us not to do this way, he wants us to do the other way... typical italian famous blogger. He seems convinced that the simple fact of deciding to have a role as "the one who writes the posts" vs. "the one who writes comments" makes you special. What an ass. The point is not "creating content". It all depends on the quality of the content you create. Or the honesty of it. And if your posts are dishonest, they can still give you many readers and many comments. Or not. So what that proves? Nothing. If you're dishonest you can get a lot of pointless comments that sneer at you. In that case the comments are probably better than the content. (Comments are a different kind of content too, so the whole pretext is stupid anyway.)
I think he's putting those who provide content on a pedestal only because he's one of them.
And he compares writing comments to vomiting! He can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
And anyway. Nobody seems to conceive spontaneity as something more than anarchy to be regulated. That's so wrong. The way I see it, spontaneity is the only decent fertile common ground we should try to preserve, and let be. Montessori wasn't on the mille lire for nothing.

ps. thanks to maateo for providing the occasion. Hell, in a vomiting comment.
pps. In a totally unrelated issue, I want to notify that I have worked it out with the "write" page. Now it actually serves the purpose to write to me. Oh, and there's also a "phrases" page now. Always just in case you were interested.


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  • "An older married man must form alliances, or associate with younger or unmarried men at some point, and it would be better to associate with and invest preferentially in those who are least likely to threaten his paternity, especially in societies where cuckoldry is rife," says Wilson. // taken from Male circumcision is a weapon in the sperm wars - New Scientist

  • If one takes an umbrella and trudges through the grounds on a tour of inspection despite wet and mist, one can no longer see one's own house after only a hundred paces, just brambles in mist, rivulets, bracken in mist. A little wall in the lower garden (drystone) has collapsed: debris among the lettuces, lumps of clay under the tomatoes. Perhaps that happened days ago. // taken from DC's: Spotlight on ... Max Frisch 'Man in the Holocene'

  • I didn't have my camera with me, but I knew I'd remember the important parts, and I do. I remember it even better than it was. I sometimes think parenting is a little like that too. // taken from italian trivia: lontano lontano lontano

  • Every living environment has an effect on its inhabitants and in New York City that environment is one that has an element of brutality. New York is a great city and has improved markedly over the years, but this is a harsh place and breeds cynicism, skepticism and cautiousness. Survival skills. And one of the results is a rather unusual foreign language vocabulary. // taken from New York Daily Photo: No Salga Afuera

  • l'epistolario. oltre ogni dire. mi ha stretto il cuore a che punto deve abbassarsi un uomo per sopravvivere, le parolette gentili, l'adulazione, che spero ironica, la semplice miseria materiale che porta un individuo acceso, intelligente, beffardo, a pregare i miserabli, per due caramelle, un po' di frutta... io dico che piuttosto che rimanere senza soldi e dover chiedere io uccido qualcuno, o uccido me stesso, senza dubbio, e senza perdere tempo. / taken from carnevali, il porco dio | a.i.: daccapo

  • a un tratto mi alzo, con mossa calcolatamente goffa invado il suo spazio... quel cilindro d'aria che ci difende dagli importuni e dai merdi... e come prevedevo lei è costretta a muoversi, a scoprire il libro... lo alza un poco, povera cicia, manco fosse una difesa bastevole... e allora vedo: mille splendidi soli. cazzo. mi ammoscio subito // taken from a.i.:

  • Guess who had a very private talky-talk in (maybe) romantic Northern Virginia tonight, probably at the Bilderberg Group meeting in Chantilly? Your Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton! They really met and talked, in private, Thursday night. And really, it sounds like they did this at that creepy Bilderberg Group meeting, which is happening now, and which is so secret that nobody will admit they’re going, even though everybody who is anybody goes to Bilderberg. // taken from Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip -Hillary & Barack%u2019s Very Special Date Night

  • Tua nonna ha timore di maneggiarti, e questo mi stupisce. Segno che, ad essere madre di un neonato, si apprende e poi si dimentica. Perché dura poco o perché fa paura. Quando questa paura mi prende alla gola vengo a guardarti dormire. / taken from C'ERA UNA VOLTA UN RE

  • But if you are merely with people (flawed as we all are), then why not just love them? // taken from ElsaElsa.com - Venus In Aspect To Neptune: Distinguishing Between Unconditional Love And Being A Doormat

  • The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man's house about a year ago when he left it unlocked. She had moved a mattress into the small closet space and even took showers, Itakura said, calling the woman "neat and clean." // taken from Japanese woman caught living in man's closet -- Police Arrests -- chicagotribune.com

  • Many things fell away in that moment, in a confetti of shimmering pieces, as if they had never even impacted upon me at all, indeed as if their irrelevance had been prearranged. Not even a bruise, I said again later as I looked at myself in the mirror. I was that lucky. // taken from a circle, a sighting, a wound, a reckoning

  • "Giusto!" (alla gatta che balza sul recinto) "E domani di nuovo non è un giorno" (1 giugno) "Sbaglia presto chi dovrà diventare un maestro". // taken from Il mattino - Peter Handke

  • If we run in the London marathon, no one notices.We've been supplanted by the 80- and 90-year-olds, who grab all the attention. Young people find the really old curious and rather interesting. They help them unload their shopping, listen to what they say. As Alan Bennett said in his diary, you have only to eat a soft boiled egg when you're really old for everyone to say how wonderful you are. // taken from BRIGHT OLD THINGS | More Intelligent Life

  • Mi metto a frugare. Io sono ubriaca fradicia, ma non molesta. Una famiglia repressiva mi ha insegnato l’arte di mantenere la calma anche nelle situazioni di alterazione psicofisica. Sono piuttosto depressa e sull’orlo di un pianto con il tale con cui siedo sul marciapiede. // taken from Judith Vau Asch: Qui al Nord.

  • And we want you all to inform your italian friends to switch their DNS to OpenDNS so they can bypass their ISPs filters. This will also let them bypass the other filters installed by the Italian government, as a bonus. // taken from The Pirate Bay - Blog

  • So all these world leaders are going to get together in Rome to solve the food crisis in a world were the big boys find it necessary to spend 1.2 trillion dollars a year in weapons. The AP tells us that that these elite experts in world hunger are going to eat "Italian Specialties". // taken from Wandering Italy Blog: International Food Crisis Summit Begins Obscenely

  • we see Courbet trying on his artist hat in the grand tradition of Rembrandt and countless others. Aside from the beautiful use of charcoal and stumping, this image fascinates me in showing just how self-aware Courbet is in depicting himself. Courbet never stops watching us watching him. // taken from Art Blog By Bob: Love and Death

  • Fra 59 anni sarò qui a farmi le “seghe” nella posta inviata e in arrivo e antispam di yahoo a postare senilità con gli occhiali da sole su wordpress sperando di crepare in modo originale / taken from senza titolo senza nome « only gravity

  • The Federation of American Scientists website reveals that Georgia is the most recent recipient of U.S. weapons and aid, receiving 10 UH-1H Huey helicopters (four for spare parts only) and $64 million in military aid and training to fight Arab soldiers with alleged ties to Al Qaeda that have been participating in the Chechen war and are now taking refuge in the Pankisi Gorge region in northern Georgia. Like many of the recent aid recipients, claims that Georgia has become an al Qaeda sanctuary are dubious at best. // taken from Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

  • In the nineteenth century, Diego Velazquez was the Jimi Hendrix of portraiture. // taken from Art Blog By Bob: Insider Portraits


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