Why would anyone want to read another person’s whinings? Don’t we have enough complaints of our own? Yes, we do. No, I’m not going to bombard people with the complaints common to most of us: “I’m too short, not pretty enough, not smart enough, didn’t get enough housework done, haven’t shagged in a month.”
I like writing, a lot. I also love reading. Unfortunately, neither of these things are particularly healthy pursuits due to certain…neurochemical deficiencies. In lay terms, I can go a bit nuts.
So much so that for the last few years, I’ve spent a lot of time at home, sometimes of my own free will, sometimes not. To entertain myself, several phases have been enjoyed.
One of the most banal is watching far too much cable television. With programme content originating from the big U-S of A.
It gets me mad. Real mad. But I can’t quite turn away, it’s like my eyes are fixed upon the screen not of their own volition…
So thought I might try to turn my madness (anger and mental incapacity) into a more constructive beast, without having to learn Aristotelian rhetoric inside-out…
It’s one step up from sitting in a pool of my own waste matter feeling sorry for myself.
…and we have…blog. It rhymes with God. Bet he’d like that.
Hope some of you who flip through will either go, “Hey yeah, I hate that too!” or “Never noticed it that, but it sucks!” or even “Man, that chick needs to get laid. She sounds like a mad cow.”
My second reason, or excuse for complaint is…I was born in Britain. You can’t remain immune to the phenomenon they call ‘whingeing’. It’s what they do best (most of the time). That and coming second at everything.
Thanks, supportive and ever-suffering friends who will force themselves to read this out of loyalty, and also to my tech-person Robert Hutton, who has to be one of the most computer-literate and artistically supportive people I’ve ever met. If they clone him, artists will have to fork out heaps to get their own copy and it would be completely worth it.
Also, thanks to my continual inspiration and maestro of ’snark’, with whom I’ve refined many an intelligent (mostly unintelligible till conversing with him) snark attack/debate. Often referred to as my ‘accidental muse’ and ‘nerd of my dreams’, you know who you are.
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