Okay, I'm on a Dennis Miller-proportioned rant here (and I worked with Dennis Miller years ago, and he was not a particulary funny guy, although he thought he was, but I digress). The meme thing. Again. I wasn't going to say anything more about this, but someone sent me an e-mail on it, and I answered it more passionately and lucidly than I thought I was capable of, so here we go:
If I want to write about something, I'll write about it. Why should I answer someone's 5 canned questions (and then list the 3 other people I'll send it to--WHAT IS THIS, HIGH SCHOOL?), when I can take my time and do longer, (hopefully) more thoughftul entries on things I really, really love? Musically, I've already written about 3 women who are relatively semi-unknown AND absolutely wonderful: Lisa Loeb, Holly Palmer and Jonatha Brooke. Comics-wise, why should I reduce 100 possible topics on SOMETHING I LOVE to 100 one-line entries? This meme crap is clogging up blogs and reducing us to a TV mentality of "tell me what I need to know NOW." Just list things, I don't care WHY, just give me the list, because life is too short to actually read and learn about something. My favorite bloggers are people like Mark Evanier and Fred Hembeck and Nina and Dooce, who write about things they care about, that they're passionate about, and do it from the heart and not because they were sent a set of 5 questions that's making its way around the Internet like some virus.
Yes, I'm really, really, really BITCHY about this. So sue me. But keep in mind that this is all my own personal opinion, and we all know what opinions are like, don't we?
And don't even get me started on those "which drag-queen Barbie™ are you?" things...
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