It Gets Lonely…
It gets lonely writing for a blog and not knowing what people think of it. So If you are reading, say hello. Tell me if you like anything.
I know this sounds like a pathetic cry for attention, but it really isn’t. What I mean to convey is the incredible loneliness of writing. A professional writer gets paid to write. Money signifies recognition, even praise.
The amateur hopes for recognition, but suffers silently, worried that either he has no audience, or that they don’t feel any compunction to respond. So don’t be shy. I can’t hear you breathing. You have to tell me you’re there. Stupid Internet.
July 13th, 2007 at 10:48
I’m here!
That was you commenting about “Knocked Up,” yes?
I’m curious about your dismissal of my condom discussion as “cute.”
I was being quite serious. That is a broach of etiquette, trust (such as there was), and potentially, ethics and morals.
Truly the equivalent of shooting someone and saying, “Oops! I didn’t realize it was loaded!”
Only with the end result being life, not death.
I wonder (and pardon the hyperbole), if you’d be so cavalier if you could be so aversely affected by a misused (or not used at all) condom.
July 13th, 2007 at 12:40
Yes, that was me : )
I was amused by the earnestness of your remarks regarding condom (mis)use. Foolishness should be expected in most human activities, particularly those so close to the heart, and the crotch.
Your further analogy to firearms is an apt one. About a quarter of all gun injuries are unintentional, just ask Dick Cheney : )
July 13th, 2007 at 16:45
I was amused by the earnestness of your remarks regarding condom (mis)use. Foolishness should be expected in most human activities, particularly those so close to the heart, and the crotch.
I realize this may be generational, and potentially gender-based, but I was always taught that safe sex was paramount. I realize I am projecting, but in my varied experiences, no chances have been taken, even when alcohol has been involved.
July 14th, 2007 at 0:50
Few people are more cautious when it comes to avoiding venereal disease than me. I don’t think gender is an issue and I came of age when safe sex was drummed into your head incessantly.
But my argument regarding the funniness of condom misuse is not one based medical prudence, but rather an appreciation of human folly. And I have gotten to an age where I value not principles, but expediency. I used to have principles, but I lost them around 1993. I think my disillusionment had a lot to do with relying on public buses for transport.
July 14th, 2007 at 11:08
Ah, well then it just comes down to personal choices and belief systems.
When my body is involved, “human folly” isn’t something I take bemusedly.
A broken or fallen-off condom shows that a level of concern and care was shown, and the movie could have had those scenarios without sacrificing anything.
July 14th, 2007 at 11:08
Addendum to my last sentence:
It was also a level of concern and care Ben showed for pretty much the rest of the movie, so why he didn’t show it in that moment seems inconsistent to me.
July 14th, 2007 at 23:25
I don’t see how Ben’s behaviour in the movie was so awful. What’s-her-name told him to proceed in an ambiguous fashion. He might have assumed she was on the pill. That’s pretty believable.
And to be strictly accurate, your body was not involved, some other person’s was, a fictional character’s. Much humor is bad things happening to other people, as the example of the Wile E. Coyote can attest.