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So glad I'm old.
Feb. 6th, 2005 11:13 amWell, I'm not old. Not really. I'm 31. But I look around LJ and I see a whole lotta angstin' goin' on. And a lot of "Oh for crying out loud get a grip." Take, for example, this webcartoonist I read and whose LiveJournal I occasionally check in with. Now, don't get me wrong. He's talented. I adore his art. I think his comic is funny as all hell. He's professional and polite (and do not mistake that with nice). If you ask me, I'll privately email you a link to his comic. (I don't dare mention him by name here, because I don't feel like having legions of his fans commenting on what a stupid b*tch I am. Trust me. I've seen them do it before.)
Anyhoo, he's all giddy over the fact that Enterprise was cancelled. He claimed that he was doing his happy dance because the show was crap and shouldn't have been on TV as long as it was, and that SF fans shouldn't have watched it just because it was Trek. Given the comic he drew, I think he's just as pissed about the Trek franchise basically milking Gene Roddenberry's artistic vision. Full disclosure: I'll watch Scott Bakula peel potatoes, but Enterprise was on opposite West Wing, and then Angel. Sorry, Scott.
So Webcartoonist Guy actually gets one piece of "hate mail" regarding his samba on Enterprise's grave. I gotta tell you, it's the best written hate mail I've ever seen. What's more amusing is that it very closely echoes the webcartoonist's own style. And it makes some good points, especially regarding Enterprise's probable replacement by mindless reality TV. (Again, if you've actually read this far and are really interested, I can point you toward the LJ. Who me? Paranoid? Yes.) He wasn't actually that annoyed or peeved by the email, he just seemed to post it as an FYI and to display to the world how much he didn't care.
Side note: if you really want the world to see how much you don't care, don't make a show of posting the "hate mail" on your LJ.
And fifty people chimed in to tell him how right he was. Dear G-d, I thought. What sheep.
Then, I thought, no, not sheep. Just young. Maybe not chronologically, but if you're still busy showing the world how angry and snarky and intelligent you are by mocking one person's well written (if occasionally poorly spelled--it substituted 'your' for 'you're' at one point) opinion, you're young.
Hence my subject line. If realizing the person you've really detested for five years ain't goin' nowhere and it's time to suck it up and be more than coldly civil (and exacerbating the problem) means I'm old, sign me up. If understanding that distancing yourself from someone doesn't have to mean you've declared all out war, I'm in. If you can disagree with someone in the main, and still admire their style and flair, find me the Geritol. I'm old. Thank heavens.
Anyhoo, he's all giddy over the fact that Enterprise was cancelled. He claimed that he was doing his happy dance because the show was crap and shouldn't have been on TV as long as it was, and that SF fans shouldn't have watched it just because it was Trek. Given the comic he drew, I think he's just as pissed about the Trek franchise basically milking Gene Roddenberry's artistic vision. Full disclosure: I'll watch Scott Bakula peel potatoes, but Enterprise was on opposite West Wing, and then Angel. Sorry, Scott.
So Webcartoonist Guy actually gets one piece of "hate mail" regarding his samba on Enterprise's grave. I gotta tell you, it's the best written hate mail I've ever seen. What's more amusing is that it very closely echoes the webcartoonist's own style. And it makes some good points, especially regarding Enterprise's probable replacement by mindless reality TV. (Again, if you've actually read this far and are really interested, I can point you toward the LJ. Who me? Paranoid? Yes.) He wasn't actually that annoyed or peeved by the email, he just seemed to post it as an FYI and to display to the world how much he didn't care.
Side note: if you really want the world to see how much you don't care, don't make a show of posting the "hate mail" on your LJ.
And fifty people chimed in to tell him how right he was. Dear G-d, I thought. What sheep.
Then, I thought, no, not sheep. Just young. Maybe not chronologically, but if you're still busy showing the world how angry and snarky and intelligent you are by mocking one person's well written (if occasionally poorly spelled--it substituted 'your' for 'you're' at one point) opinion, you're young.
Hence my subject line. If realizing the person you've really detested for five years ain't goin' nowhere and it's time to suck it up and be more than coldly civil (and exacerbating the problem) means I'm old, sign me up. If understanding that distancing yourself from someone doesn't have to mean you've declared all out war, I'm in. If you can disagree with someone in the main, and still admire their style and flair, find me the Geritol. I'm old. Thank heavens.
