well at least youdid not critique my top blog!

It takes fuel for a fire.

Pablo

but you should have made it a thumbs up
my blog was on the 12

When you write something as inflammatory as this one, I'll consider unleashing on you.

Pablo

well
my entry was good!
the one for the 12

If you would like, really want it, I will burn it down for you -  your entry of 4/12 about people in life. Do you want me to write you a personal crucifiction?

Pablo

no no

Oh, come on. Be gaming, show some courage and confidence. It would be great fun!

Pablo

...

In response to "This will make you think",

I would call it being a parent, which I am.

Pablo

I think I have an entertaining blog today and would like to shop it around for reactions. What do you think?

Pablo

I find a few things interesting about this review.  For one, since you are obviously a professional editor who has the right to bash people's editing skills, you should know that freekin' has an "A" in it.  Also, my blog mentions credibility, and when you write that my blog exhibited poor editing skils while your blog is filled with poor grammatical phrasing and obviously a serious lack of editing, you lose all credibility.

Second, Dan Brown has written the novels Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Angels and Demons, and The Da Vinci Code.  Note that none of those were screenplays.  You may be making the case that his stories make better screenplays than novels, but the fact remains that they are novels, not screenplays, so perhaps you should do some research before apparently screaming at me through your fancy caps lock button.  And my reason for mentioning The Da Vinci Code was not to site it as the end all be all of honest fiction.  The book sold millions of copies, and people believed that what it said was true.  I was making the claim that this would not have happened if he had not gotten tiny details right.

You know, the way your blog gets tiny details wrong.

Finally, I have not dissected religion based on South Park.  I find it ironic that you claim our society is obsessed with television when the only tangible element you were able to pull out of my blog was related to television.  Sounds like you're the one with TV on the brain.  The real point of my post, if you had cared to pay attention, was to show the necessity of detail and consistency, and I used Comedy Central and Morgan Spurlock, among other things, to reiterate this point.  Your inability to understand a simple blog shows me that you still need to work on some of the points I have mentioned in this post and previous posts before continuing to write blog reviews.  You claim that I shouldn't be giving writing advice if I'm not published, but you absolutely should not be reviewing blogs if you can't understand them or write a coherant message about them.

But hey, thanks for the shout out.   I think I'll go see what's on the boob tube now. 

Your effeminate arguments are typical. Freekin' is colloquial so the spelling doesn't matter. (Tiny detail) But as for spelling corrections, cohenent is not colloquial and thus you mispelled it! (Tiny detail)

This is a trite and pathetic defense of your "dramatic" blog citing nothing of consequence but picking at nonexistent spelling errors. I think you have avoided the greatest error by not taking any of this seriously. I don't.

Pablo

My response to you was not written in defense of my blog.  You are obviously free to hold any opinion of my blog, and to of course express that opinion on your own blog.  I have no right to try to "defend" my writing in an effort to get you to change your mind.  My problem is that you used incorrect information to criticize my blog, and I am just trying to enlighten the few people who might actually read this.

Now I have to ask: how can you call my argument trite and pathetic when you make no argument whatsoever?  All you say is that my blog cites "nothing of consequence but picking at nonexistent spelling errors."  Really?  What about every part of my reply besides the first paragraph that explains how your entire review is faulty?  That wasn't a solid argument?  And by the way, when I mentioned your grammatical errors, I didn't mean spelling problems.  More on that later.  First, a spelling problem:

I'm not really sure what "cohenent" is.  If you were trying to embarrass me for misspelling "coherent," you didn't do a very good job.

But back to the real issues.  Please help me understand what you mean when you say I have "avoided the greatest error by not taking any of this seriously. I don't."  Do you mean you don't take this seriously, but I should?  How does the “I don’t” fit into this equation?

And since I don't want to keep you on edge any longer, let's get back to the grammatical problems.  I wrote in my initial reply that you shouldn't really bash my editing skills since your post had serious editing issues of its own.  A brief, simple example from your very first paragraph:

"This blog is a quagmire, no matter where you jump in it is a mess!"  These are two separate phrases poorly squashed into one grammatically incorrect sentence.

I think it's ironic that you put a comma in that sentence, though, since you don't seem to like using commas, at least not where they are necessary.  For instance, "DAN BROWN WRITES FREEKIN' SCREENPLAYS KID!" needs a comma after "screenplays" and before "kid."  If you had a professional editor review your review, he or she might have picked up on that and would have most likely advised you to fix it before bashing my apparently poorly edited post.

But none of this is the point.  Let's get right down to it.  Since I’ve already mentioned how you incorrectly analyzed South Park and Dan Brown’s role in my blog, I will just focus on what your major problem with my blog seems to be: that it is all over the map.  Ignoring the fact that yours jumps from a review to quotes to more of a review to a review of someone else to a link to a Natalie Portman gangsta rap to TV listings from 1959 to a “personal contribution to the useless pop-crap repository” to, finally, an attempt to preemptively insult anyone who will disagree with your blog, that’s fine, you can think that my blog is all over the map.  Just please, for my own sake, point out which parts are not consistent.

I ask so that I may be a better blog writer, and I ask you because you obviously know so much about writing great blogs.

Ok, I'll give you my confession. My blog is trite and pathetic.

 

Your blog is trite and pathetic. All blogs are trite and pathetic. I have no concern who reads this any more than Dan Brown cares who reads his stuff. (He is a business with a staff of fact checkers.) I am killing time stringing words together on my blog. My blog is called onewalrus, or Paul's OneWalrus Cafe. I make no claims anywhere as to what to expect in the way of content as you do with your blog titled booksay. When I read your introduction again expounding upon your intentions and expectations from your blog I react. Comma disputes are worlds away from unproduced promises. I won't labor you with specifics since you already speak of being flummoxed by the simple transitions in my blog. Although I believe the relevant flow is transparent if single-mindedness is overcome.

 

 

"Just please, for my own sake, point out which parts are not consistent."

Okay

Gaping Hole:

"The Muslim community seemed to have no problem with this."

If it's "all about details" then where are the details upon which you base this statement? What are your Muslim sources which qualify the "no problem" statement?

 

The remainder of your blog is dedicated to you blowing your own horn. You set yourself up, you blow your horn. Setup, horn-blowing, setup, horn-blowing... . Periodically you cough up something better suited to swallowing. (Credible newspapers erroneous reporting on a meaningless pop-culture event.) You speak of the importance of small details but deliver nothing but broad stokes which lead to yet another setup and horn-blowing session. And, you don't know how to turn a phrase at all.

 

A depth in writing comes from a depth in character earned through emphatic life experiences.

 

My anticipation is overflowing  to review the next "top-blog". Maybe it will be you again!

 

Finally, I am sorry you missed the point of the last sentence of the previous blog. To dumb it down for you: It's good you don't take any of this seriously. I don't

 

Pablo

 

 

Wait, so your problem was that "no matter where you jump in it is a mess," and your only example of this is that I claimed the Muslim community seemed to have no problem with the original airing?  I said "seemed," meaning there didn't seem to be a problem, considering there was no public outcry over getting the episode pulled and there were no riots in the streets or retaliations like there was with the Danish comics. 

The reason the name of my blog is BookSay, Mr. Fantastic Researcher, is because the MindSay people are starting to have book and movie sections (and other forms of entertainment) on their blog, and they asked me to write this blog and they named it BookSay.  Remember when you responded to my wiki letting me know that you reviewed my blog as a wait to bait me into responding to you?  Maybe you should have actually read the wiki when you did that, because I explain it there.

And what parts of this blog are tooting my own horn?  I am trying to give advice that I think can help other writers, and considering just about everybody who replied to me said, "I totally agree with you," I'd say it's working.  

I'm glad you acknowledged that your blog is trite and pathetic.  I say that not to be mean, but to point out to you that you review blogs and then can't successfully back up your review.  I talked about credibility in my blog, and you, my friend, have none. 

You know what, you have no sense of humor at all. Your insular world of blogging prohibits you from taking your blinders off. . You are so full of your inflated sense of self importance it is impossible for you to imagine even the slightest error in your ways. And still, after three exchanges here, you don't get it do you? Well, one last time, at the risk of offending your effete and pompous nature, but trying to break through it for a second:

IT DOESN'T FREEKIN' MATTER, THIS SHIT MEANS NOTHING, I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU WRITE, NOR DO I CARE WHAT YOU THINK OF WHAT I WRITE.

AND YOUR RABID, SNIDE AND SASSY RETORTS HERE ONLY FORTIFIED MY OPINION OF YOU AS A TOTAL HACK WHO NEVER MISSES AN OPPORTUNITY TO BLOW HIS HORN. MAY YOU THRIVE WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF YOUR DELUSIONAL, KISS-ASS, BLOG CLAN AND SOMEDAY PUBLISH A HANDY USERS MANUAL, OR SOMETHING WITHIN THE LIMITS OF YOUR OVER EXAGERRATED TALENTS. IN THE MEANTIME, CHILL OUT DUDE. IT MEANS NOTHING! AND YOU SAY I "BAITED" YOU... HA... YOU BAITED YOURSELF.

Oh yes, I baited myself by telepathically directing you to first write a review of my blog and then come to my wiki page and tell me about it.  Yep, that was all me right there.

Believe me, big guy, I get it.  Don't think for a moment that I'm sitting here in a huff wondering what you're going to write next as if it will have any impact on the rest of my life.  And while I think it is ridiculous for you to try to bring sense of humor into the equation (you haven’t just been making fun of my blogs – you’ve been making fun of me as a person - and I don’t know anybody who wouldn’t take offense to that), I get it. 

Writing this blog is just a thing I do on the side for kicks; I write one new entry a week, and responding to the replies is fun, especially replies from people who are mad at me or disagree with me or will try to debate me.

I am not at all full of myself, nor do I think I am important.  I am just a kid who recently graduated and is trying to start his life.  I write books but have no delusions of ever actually getting them published, and I started this blog because my buddies at MindSay asked me to, and because I thought it would be fun.  And it is.

You're the one who is freaking out and struggling to keep calm.  I'd suggest you chill, because I thought we were just having fun with each other.  If you ever read the debates between Uncle Nasty and me, you know I don't take any of this seriously.

That being said, I would like to add that if I were you, I wouldn't tell other bloggers that blogging means nothing.  I'm not big on writing about my personal life and feelings.  When I first started blogging (as Mullows) I very rarely wrote about my life.  I focused more on things going on in the world that I thought were interesting or annoying.  Even with BookSay I try to stick to writing about my life only as it pertains to book writing and publishing, and don't use it as a diary (with the sole exception of two entries about my girlfriend's dying grandfather, which I wrote for her and her family).  But some people on MindSay take blogging veeeeery seriously, and see it as the only way to express their inner most feelings.  Some would be extremely offended by you saying "this shit means nothing."

I personally don't care.  If you want to end our cute little debate, that's fine.  I'll go back to writing a new post every Monday.  But just know that I'm too young, inexperienced, and unsuccessful to be able to accurately be described as a hack, and I think I'm too young, inexperienced, and unsuccessful to accurately be considered inflated with my own self-importance.   If you read any of my other posts where I make fun of my size, my appearance, my voice, and many other flaws, you would know that.

Matt,

I appreciate your temperance and all you say here. It is good of you to have tolerated my vituperation this long, as most would have degenerated to profanity by now. And I am not so naturally nasty.

 

Most of my previous blog entries, going back six months have been of a completely different character. Some personal, some goofy and some journalistic. This latest heretical approach was a ludicrous experiment in incendiary writing.

 

It is imperative that I apologize for overstepping my own good sensibilities. Many of the things I have written to you are cruel and condemning and inexcusable. Although blog mean little, a real person and their fabric do. Your life and the pursuit of your dreams is important, and my behavior here has been horrible. If there were a fine, I would pay without hesitation.

 

So much for my Jekyl and Hyde routine. Please know that I'm really not a bad man out to draw blood. But, you have to admit I'm fairly adept at being nasty.

 

Pablo