Pretension

[andysocial]

Why do so many people sound so unbelievably pretentious in their weblogs and homepages? Get over yourselves, people.

I suppose that this is all a common failing among the young, and most online folk tend to be youngish (sorry Rill). Stop trying to sound like the second coming of Yeats and just live a normal life.

Of course, that's just my opinion, but I'm usually right. :-)

Comments

[kittles.livejournal.com]

"second coming of Yeats..."

Hahahaha!

Yeats? How 'bout something more understandable...

[ex-enygma701.livejournal.com]

That's a good one. Can you even decipher what the hell Yeats says? Have you ever given his work a good shot?

Lord above, I should shoot you.

indecipherable

[andysocial]

Read some web pages and weblogs. Half sound like ee cummings (no caps, wacky punctuation), the others like really bad beat poets who take themselves too seriously.

OK, so Yeats was a bad example. Ginsberg?

Re: indecipherable

[ex-enygma701.livejournal.com]

Ginsburg's better, though not best example. One can still understand what the hell he (http://www.levity.com/corduroy/ginsberg.htm) has to say How about Kerouac (http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/kerouac.html)?

Re: Yeats? How 'bout something more understandable...

[andysocial]

Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:
Cuchulain battling with the bitter tide;
The Druid, grey, wood-nurtured, quiet-eyed,
Who cast round Fergus dreams, and ruin untold;
And thine own sadness, where of stars, grown old
In dancing silver-sandalled on the sea,Sing in their high and lonely melody.
Come near, that no more blinded hy man's fate,
I find under the boughs of love and hate,
In all poor foolish things that live a day,Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

If you can figure out this one (all sortsa liner notes) by yourself, you can stick it anywhere...

[ex-enygma701.livejournal.com]