EJ 1: Boxes - participate not associate by SEMC, journal
EJ 1: Boxes - participate not associate
Let's get the ball rolling. I've got a lot of stuff in my head stored up from this last semester or two that's been sitting in the back of my head but haven't yet warranted enough attention to give their own journal. So some of these are going to be random. So bear with me, I do have a point even if its not what you think it is.
Awww shit
Get your towels ready it's about to go down
Everybody in the place hit the fuckin deck
But stay on your motherfuckin toes
We runnin this, let's go
Today I'm talking about groups. You know, THOSE groups, the ones with ulterior motives, sometimes political, often lifestyle related where its a way
EJ 1.5: Alvin-Earthworm - letting go of the past by SEMC, journal
EJ 1.5: Alvin-Earthworm - letting go of the past
Steppin on some toes. Well I've got part two fleshing itself out, but it seems some people can't wait for their turn.
Okay, tonight we briefly talk about artist and author arrogance. This is by no means comprehensive, so please consider this a rough draft of a much larger issue.
The basic problem in a nutshell is that when artists of written, visual, audio, etc media reach a certain point in their careers, many of them tire of their fan base and lash out at them. In other words, for any number of reasons they hate/resent their fans.
They just throw up their hands one day and say "fuck you fans, leave me alone." They'll hide this behin
Patience and Kindness are wasted on some people .. by joe-dunphy, journal
Patience and Kindness are wasted on some people ..
... and some of those people work for DeviantArt. Let's take a look at the latest support ticket I've posted, only to find myself greeted with silence, as you can see in this screenshot. Remember that post from four days ago? As of this hour, it is still not in the feed for this blog. I wrote to support, after noticing that something was wrong.
"Feb 04 12:19 am
My blog feed:
http://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=by%3Ajoe-dunphy&type=journal&formatted=1
This is currently empty, even though I posted to my blog
https://joe-dunphy.deviantart.com/journal/Finally-this-idiot-posts-something-283034648
14 hours and 50 minutes ago. Yes, I do un
The Evil that is I.T. by dark-as-midnight, literature
Literature
The Evil that is I.T.
He looked at his keyboard in dismay, not knowing what to type, next. Wasn't MyBlogLog about to close in mere days, creating a sense of urgency about the move? Did not the feed for his WritersCafe page need to be near the top of the sidebar on his MyOpera page, given the relative importance of both photography and storytelling in what he intended to do? Most importantly, had not drag and drop been a technology of such antiquity, that some of the older instructional manuals for it online still had passages that were not yet translated out of the original cuneiform? So why, he asked, why would MyOpera refuse to let their users have access to thi