Bloggers Unite!

(previous post, old blog 11/5/07, giving my girls props!)

I just have to say, if you really want an interesting read, you need to go to http://www.violentacres.com/.

She is an anonymous writer, whom I think is one of the more profound writers on the internet. Some call it blogging, but I get tired of the new slang due to the technology age. Point is, this woman writes what is. She doesn't try to put a spin on it, she just tells it like she sees it. And as a human, isn't that all we can really do? Relate on another human level....not like I am better than you because I drive an SUV (aka Stupid Useless Vehicle) or because I have a better job, or because I had a better upbringing....she tells it how it is. And that is refreshing.
I have been reading her for about 1.5 years now, always through another site which I am going to stop even visiting because it is really starting to lack in a lot of areas. Mostly in the fact that the posts are few and far between and they are really lacking in any kind of .....well, anything....in fact, he has another writer contributing, and between the two, there still isn't anything worth a damn.

So, VA, I have been reading you, and I like knowing that there is someone out there that has had just as weird and bad and good of a life growing up. I agree with a lot of your views, and I feel a kind of kindred spirit thing going on. You know nothing of me, but if you and i were to meet, I feel that we would like to know each other. (um, this isn't a proposition....)
So readers, all 2 of them of mine, please go and check out VA. She rocks. And she speaks truth. I know how she feels when she has been accused of making it all up. I have been to, and well, I ONLY WISH I had had a normal (or anything resembling it) life. But yet it makes you (the past) who you are.

VA's post today about christmas really rang true. I have been fighting my work on the pre thanksgiving christmas bullshit. Oh, btw, I am kinda subsequently being fired for it. Well, fired in a way that they don't have to pay unemployment. Cut my hours til I quit, or take me off the schedule completely and not actually terminate me. All because I embrace a different part of the year, and was grilled for 2 days about it. I think it happened right around the time my boss said, "I hate halloween, but I guess some people would say that about christmas" Well, fuck yeah....so I said it. He looked at me as if I had nailed Jesus to the cross myself.
So I just wanted to say, right on VA for speaking the truth. That's exactly why I read you and hell, who knows, I might send a few readers your way....
http://www.violentacres.com/

oh, and one of the links on her page I like a lot too, well worth it, if only for the fact that you learn the meaning of the word bomboclaat. I actually made up a little ditty set to a reggae tune that I sing in the shower dedicated to the uber smelly dog of Jamaican Insult.

http://widelawns.blogspot.com/

And as a closing I would like to ask that you take a look at wide lawn's birthday challenge, and VA's backing it up. How about this guys, why don't we do it for christmas too? I mean, VA's got a point with the commercialism. .Why don't we just ask for ppl to give to (name your charity or charities) instead? Or better yet, instead of shopping, spend that time, and it is a lot when you think about shopping for christmas, actually volunteering your time to help those less fortunate. It DOES make a difference. Not only for them, but yourself as well.
Rock on VA and Wide Lawns, you have a dedicated reader for sure.

Psss....pass it on.