the internet is dangertown

you know when you're reading the newspaper online, and you scroll down to the bottom of the article, and there's the 'comments' section, and it is filled with oh so many idiotic/ignorant/just-plain-rude postings that you want to scream? you know? it is one of the reasons i love actual-paper-papers and magazines. no open forum. these things get me all worked up.

and. with the rise of things like blogs and twitter and so on, it just seems like there's more and more ways of saying what you think, without necessarily thinking first. or maybe it's easier to say things you wouldn't say in the real world, because. you know. it's just the internets...

back when i had that little photo spread in the globe - back all those days ago - i was SOOOO excited to have my name on something, and i went and looked online and was all pumped and whatnot, and there were all these comments on how hideous this was, or how expensive that was, and so on and so on. and oh, how sad i got! how sensitive. and defensive. even when i agreed with some of the points in part (sure, the hermes corkscrew was expensive, sure), i wanted to jab back with MY point of view about how it is SUPPOSED to be expensive because it is HERMES and not everyone is supposed to be able to buy hermes, and that's the point of luxury, and blah blah blah... but i didn't. write back. because i guess i saw how it could spiral very quickly into a petty-internet-argument, and it wasn't really important at all. still i felt a bit attacked. even as a lowly assistant.

anyways. the point of this post is that twice in the last week or two, there's been a flurry of blogging-and-whatnot re: drama in the arts community in edmotown. first a thing with latitude 53, and now with teatro and jeff haslam. and i guess i just find it all a bit upsetting. thinking about my hometown, and the communities i love so much, and people getting hurt-feelinged all around because of things said on the internets. and i don't see how it is good for anyone. all this shouting at one another, and 'i say, he says, she says, let's argue online...' i won't go into to it anymore, because of course, i'm a (small small) part of it for writing anything at all. i just have been thinking a lot about the danger of the open forum, and the internets, and. well. yes. i guess that's all. sad-heart.

i'm glad, i guess, that this little wee blog isn't a big blog with lots of followers making it seem more important than it is. just a safe-sized-family-type-blog.



but that being said, i wouldn't mind getting some free stuff. so. balenciaga. i would be thrilled if you sent me the following sweater-dress. i love it so. thank you. (photo from style.com)



or. alternatively. i would be thrilled if, deux fm, you sent me this great hooded number. (deux fm is one of the labels that showed in the green shows in new york. the one with the good good hair, and great great dresses. it is a canadian company, which i think is great.) (photo from deuxfm.com)