The Fray is handicapped by old software and the page takes forever to limp onto the screen. Sometimes it doesn’t make it at all. Add to this the insult of the roll-down ads, and you’ve got me thinking that the Fray is Slate’s equivalent of a dirty old man helping himself to a handful of my ass while I’m waiting for an elevator that takes forever to arrive.
The Fray is flaccid. Slate can’t get it up. I don’t mean Geoff and Adam and Chantay and any other techie types who make the best of the meager resources at their disposal. They’re just a waste of talent - like a team of doctors doing a coronary bypass on an 80 year-old with dementia and a prolapsed bladder. The heart might keep pumping, but he’s still going to mutter incoherently and wet himself.
This is your blog. You don’t have to stop posting on Slate, but posting your Slate posts to this blog is as easy as leafing through the newspaper. And you can go back and edit them. You can even delete them, but no one will delete them for you. And they won’t disappear as the page decays. You can even add tags at the bottom of your post so that if anyone from anywhere in the world searches the topic on which you’ve posted, they could find and read yours.
On the fray, the only way that happens is if your post is linked in Fraywatch, or if someone from a blog – a blog like this one! – links to your post.
Look for the Poetry Slam here sometime soon, and if anyone wants to link it on the Fray to give folks there a heads-up, feel free to do so, but I’m not going there. I’m on Fray-hiatus, but why not call it a Fray boycott? Really, why keep returning to the thing that gives me no satisfaction? Why would I do that? Why would you?
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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Hi Dawn,
I used your a/c once again over at DailyKos. I find they despise pedantry, so I opted to jabber on like an anal-retentive, prissy old English Prof. They've gone berserk over it.
I'm trying hard to get you banned, but it's an accolade that's more observed in the breach than the observance, it seems.
You're missing nothing on the Fray. Goaz has impailed MlRyerson and Isonomist over locdog's military credentials. It passed like a storm in the night and nobody perished, so far as I know. I've come to marvel at goaz's posts -- they just shimmer between ... I don't know, really ... they just always seem in-between something.
Anyway, Best and nice post here.
how do you add the damn tags?
boo
c'mon, it's october. time to begin celebrating Hallowthankchristoweenmasgiving!
btw, tags are like keywords. for finding posts on the same (or similar) topics. i think you can filter on them too; depends on the software.
Hi Dawn!
Brava! Of course a handful of your ass is one thing, but once that foul-smelling old man follows you into the elevator then you know you’re in for a, uhm, not a wild ride in the traditional sense (nor a violation in the penetrative sense), but a “layer of viscous scum from the top of the fish tank adhering to your skin” kind of adventure*.
But really – don’t we have obligations to our beloved geriatric invalids? The Fray was deeply satisfying once, and many of us long for the soul-shattering paroxyms of pleasure we used to feel as we writhed on its now antiquated frame. Couldn’t we try a little sensate-focus? Maybe some Viagra? Orgone channeling?
I propose we use this forum as a metaphorical penis pump/cock-ring. We can help Slate get it up, and keep it up, by inflating interest in the blogosphere and maintaining it through use of an external device (wag the slate), until the old man can hope to satisfy the torrid passions of us cyber-harlots jostling for the chance to fluff the old man up. After enough circulation returns, even your demented, bladder-prolapsed bypass patient should be able to perform. (But will probably remain demented. Have you read the articles lately?)
I still feel some loyalty to the addled old fool. I’m sure that with enough creativity (and maybe some strategically employed prosthetics), we can find some satisfaction there again. Why would I abandon the shriveled old thing that’s given me years of satisfaction, just because of some age-related physical limitations? Why would you? Lets give the old boy something to prop himself up on, and see where he can still take us.
*I feel that way every time I open an appolonius post; psychic frottery by the Fray’s equivalent of the smelly old sterno-quaffing, hairspry-huffing bum in the park who’s always ranting about the apocalypse. (Not really fair, because I prefer street people, as a rule.)
Jesus Granny-fucking Christ:
"My ambition for this blog would be that it becomes a non-profit writers' annex that operates as an adjunct to the fray, in a complementary rather than a competative manner."
Ugh, ugh, ugh. Get out of BC now.
Schad
Before we do that, we should probably form a committee to ensure that our membership is sufficiently diverse, and if as I suspect, it is not, form a task force to determine how we can make ourselves more attractive to minority writers.
Does anyone here ever read http://www.metafilter.com?
This is not a trick question.
They have this sort of collective blog thing going on. A little look into the way they manage things might be helpful for us all.
I think you have the traffic backwards. People came here looking for you, and then checked out your profile.
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