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By: A blogday mystery « CJ Writer

A blogday mystery « CJ Writer — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:37:08 +0000

[...] Anyway, the mystery made me realise it’s been a year since I started this blog, so Happy Blogday! We need music. Where’s Madonna’s Holiday? I know it’s on my iPod somewhere… It really doesn’t feel like a year; the community around WP is wonderful and the time’s gone so quickly. If anyone’s interested in the stats, so far the blog’s had 10,854 views, with 145 posts, 401 comments and 3,333 spam. My most viewed post is this one; this is my favourite. [...]

By: museditions

museditions — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:52:16 +0000

Aw, shucks, ceej, you know I was just teasing about my mortification! But you make an excellent point about intellectual property. I did have someone ask to edit a typo, and then to delete the comment asking for the edit–which I did. But, I put it all in an email, so I have that if needed. I know there was a big discussion about editing a while back, so it’s good to have a clear policy. There’s nothing “plain” about cj. And you have an ohrwurm ! I get those all the time, too. (Could be worse than At your Feet, but still)! And didn’t mean to seem unsympathetic with the headaches of Stonehead.

CJ: Yeah, I knew, Muse. But I thought it was worth saying as a few other people might wonder about it too. And I have my comments saved as emails as well for backing up, but I’m not sure if even that’s really enough; it’s simple enough to fake an email. It’s just a small risk, though, when you think about all we have to gain from commenting. The conversation is just one reason I love blogging.

Thank you so much for the compliment! Sometimes I feel very plain, but don’t we all? And in the end writing is such a part of my life that this blog, my poetry and everything else is just an extension of who I am. I’m not sure I could separate them if I wanted to!

That’s interesting, I’ve never thought of it as an earworm before. That’s a great way of describing it. (Although usually when I think of earworms it’s that scene from The Wrath of Khan, with the Ceti eels burrowing into Chekov’s ear… eew.) At least I love Fall At Your Feet, so it’s a nice feeling to have. I mean, it could be worse – I could have The Way I Are stuck in there instead.

By: museditions

museditions — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:28:40 +0000

cj, All right, leave the comment, as your stats are obviously more important to you to than my public mortification at misspelling both “cryptic” and “personae”. Hmmmf (And I reward such a man with yet another comment)!
Anyway, Stonehead’s up there with spelling errors too, so if the best vocabularist in the western world can do it, I’m not quite so…utterly…chagrined.
I’m fascinated by how all of us construct our blog–and dare I say–”real” personalities. You say you don’t like to get too personal on “da blog”, but I think this post on love is pretty darned personal, as you apparently discovered after the fact, yourself! And you’re constantly inviting me to weep when I read your writing, because you are so very skilled at evoking imagery and emotion. I take that personally! (In a good way)!
So, who are you now? Cee-j n da Hood? or CJ in the City? Perhaps cjSings in da Hood what’s in the city? –whooo, apparently time to go, Cheers.

CJ: Muse, reading that back, I do owe you a better explanation about the comment. The real reason I don’t like to delete them is my comment policy; I always say I’ll edit a person’s comment if they point out a typo or something like that, but I treat comments as an individual’s intellectual property and so won’t edit them in any other way. The one hole in this is if someone leaves a comment asking me to correct something and I do it and delete their other comment; suddenly I have nothing definitive to prove they wanted the change, so someone could easily set me up for censoring them. I know you would never do that, but if I make an exception for one person, it’s hard not to make an exception for others. I hope that makes sense. I really don’t care about stats; it’s just wonderful hearing different opinions and seeing the conversation take off.

It’s amazing how people go about constructing their blogs, isn’t it? I find it fascinating as well how blogs evolve over time and start to reflect more about the person, as you said on sulz’s post. I try to keep a slight distance with the blog as it’s a window to my thoughts and ideas rather than my life, but I’ll often use something personal to start a post and then twist it in a different direction; that’s how it’s recognisable as me, my voice, but still retain some privacy. I went a bit further with this post, but I’m quite happy with that; it’s good to know I can without it taking over the post!

Well, I think I’m probably just plain old CJ; because in a way CJ is all those things: aspiring writer, blogger, songwriter, and right now he’s still got Fall At Your Feet stuck in his head. Get it out, get it out!

By: Stonehead

Stonehead — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:10:15 +0000

Apologies for the spelling. I’m suffering headaches at the moment and they’re affecting my concentration so things I normally pick up on are being overlooked.

CJ: That’s funny, I actually didn’t notice; guess I was more interested in what you were saying. I think I fixed it. Hope you feel better soon.

By: Stonehead

Stonehead — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:10:53 +0000

Spurious has a good post on the homunculus. Her vision of one is in many ways similar to mine, but there are notable differences, too.

Michael Swanwick’s The Sleep of Reason is an interesting take on the homunculus.

Goethe’s homunculus from Faust is also relevant – a little man in a flask who lies outside Nature, a soul and spirit without a material body. Goethe uses the homunculus to show that the path for humanity seeking enlightenment lies within themselves.

A web persona or construct could certainly be a little being outside Nature, without a material body, but with soul and spirit.

CJ: That’s an interesting way of looking at it; a persona being a creation that almost takes on a life of its own, but is still tied to you and based on parts of your psyche. Philip Pullman’s daemons in His Dark Materials springs to mind, how Pantalaimon is a part of Lyra.

I can see how the observations would be different as well, based on the way people interact with the construct. Some food for thought.

Thanks for the links, Stone; I’ll check them out properly later. I love Michael Swanwick; he’s an inventive writer, more so than most SF/Fantasy writers, so that’ll be very interesting.