Don’tcha wish certain blogs had filters? Like you could just click a button, and say, “Hey, I like the posts Joe-Bob makes on Movies, Work, and Cheese, but I wish to God I didn’t even have to scroll past the stuff on Highlander or his That Damned Governor Who Doesn’t Know His Ass from a Hole in the Ground.”
Yeah, me, too.
Heck, probably have some readers who wish the same thing about this site, too. “If Dave posts one more thing about Iraq/his kid/his church/gaming/comic books, I’m going to not only delete him from my blogroll, I’m going to drive his Internet host into bankruptcy so that he never posts anything again.”
On the other hand, if we only read stuff we agreed with, we’d never change our minds. And if we read only read stuff we liked, we’d — well, it would feel like we’re not in school any more. And we’re always in school, kids … that’s sort of the whole point of this particular exercise known as life.
Still, sometimes I wish …
I have a friend that says “I just skip all that stuff you write about gardening…
Thing is, those are my favorite posts – when I am the most outside of myself and free from the mewling, whining crap I usually post…
He skips the stuff that matters to me…
*shrug*
And, yeah, for a while there I stopped reading – too much war/shrub/iraq/politics… give me more kid, gaming, and yardwork!
I guess it all matters to me, otherwise I wouldn’t post it. Still …