Saturday, June 5, 2010

Pooh-pooing

When I first started this, ahem, journal, I met up with some strange... (me: "oh, jeez, must I?" IT: "yes, you must, you must.")... BLOGfellows that helped me shed some of my mortal insecurities and from whom I will become insane to whom I will be eternally grateful.

At the onset of this journal, I was inflicted with, or rather recovering from, a gastrointestinal problem in which my bowels were not so much irritated, but were just downright furious.  This stretched into a week-long bout of sleep deprivation, eventually degrading into depravation where I accused a fellow journalist of  "telepathic plagiarism" since he seemed to be stealing my posting topics right out from under my nose.  He, too, was having trouble sleeping at the time.  I'll admit, I am a bit slow on the uptake, but, c'mon!  Those were my ideas!! 

Or so I thought...

Some time has passed since I joined this lunatic fringe online community, but have noticed that I wasn't imagining that a "telepathic plagiarism" conspiracy is unfolding in these, um...(IT: "yes, you must, you must.")...BLOGS (ugh).  I've noticed "themes" and "prompts" being played out here and there.  These were intentional in nature and I have participated in some.

What I am referring to the completely unintentional mindset that exists between, um, ...bloggers (yeah, yeah, I'm getting used to it) .  This past week's theme seems to be  "poo", "crap", "dropping off the kids", "coffee rumblings", and the like:  in otherwords, the inevitable bodily function that makes one charge to the crapper  visit the privy.  There were topics, pictures, bitches, and even a caption contest about it .  You name it, it was there and you probably stepped in it.   Hey, I even won an award for it! *cheesy grin*  The interesting thing here is that these posts and/or comments were completely unrelated or unconnected in anyway whatsoever.

It's like poetry in motion. (Poetry:  another 'telepathic theme' I noticed recently among bloggers  - myself included -  who aren't normally poetic. )

Go figure.

11 comments:

  1. I run the gamut of themes on my site... too many things swirling around in my head. So glad you decided to join the swirlies, OOdozo!

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  2. Phew, for a moment there I thought you were gonna crap all over me (figuratively speaking). You're right though, there's been a lot of shit on the internet lately. ;)

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  3. CL: Heh heh - I love that your themes come from parts of your life - I started that way too (and hope to continue). Yep, let's just get us a circle of 'terlits' around a campfire and we'd be having some good shootin'-the-shit fun! Thanks so much (and I really mean that!).

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  4. Oh dufus, dufus, my dear old-new friend: I'll be shittin' all over you on my next post (figuratively speaking)! Heh heh. No, really, your post (among others) inspired my observation of the synchronicity that seems to have developed in our little piece of blogger cyberspace. OMG! I think I'm starting to sound like Frank! Ack!

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  5. You mean the shit hit the fan and I totally missed it? Dang!

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  6. On the other hand, I seem to be running into "hanging" a lot this week. Not even a meme, just a trope.

    Hey, I came in from Monkey Man's 160 thing. I'm not barging in, am I? I hate to be rude.

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  7. Alice: You are welcome to barge in any time! The more the merrier - just bring your own libations (and TP).
    ;-)
    I guess I just gravitated to all the shitty posts this past week. But it was fun!

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  8. I feel the same way about barging in, and don't worry, I buy my TP in bulk. Hmmm... not sure that sounded right. :)

    Now and then I'll run into someone who doesn't like strangers commenting on their blog, so I thought I should check.

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  9. Alice: Yep, it gets crazy on this side sometimes and you are welcome to share that bulk purchase! I'll bring extra beer.

    Ah, no worries on those other snots. Really, why have a hugely 'public' journal and not expect a "stranger" to submit a comment? Like, duh!

    ;-)

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  10. I think you and I are "abnormally" poetic! Dang, girl, you are good!

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  11. Linda: "Poetic"? Me? Nah - just full of shit (literally).

    ;-)

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