"Obsession"
Dean
One thing that annoys me as a blogger is that I am occasionally informed that I or my co-bloggers have an "obsession" with a certain subject. Whenever I read that it grates upon me.
On a very slow day on Dean's World, at least a half-dozen new postings appear. On a busy day, 20 new postings would not be odd.
When American Idol was on, I was a few times accused of being "obsessed" with the show. Why? Because I enjoyed it and posted an average of 2-3 short articles a week about it: usually one on the night of the competition, and one on the night of the results show, and maybe an oddball extra now and then during the week.
Currently, my favorite TV show is Battlestar Galactica. As it happens, at the moment, there are exactly four TV shows I watch regularly, plus the news channels occasionally. That's it. And 2-3 days a week I post a thread about my favorite TV series. I actually don't watch much TV but I really love this show. I think it's genuinely great television: death, sex, war, love, terrorism, lust, faith and religion, politics, the military, and pathos on the order of the great Greek Tragedies. To me this show has it all.
I think it's great television, one of the best shows ever to have appeared on television. It's not without its flaws but I do love it.
So I just want to go on record as saying that I resent being told I'm "obsessed" with a TV show that I post 2-3 short articles about every week, usually during slow times like Friday or Saturday night. This out of the average of maybe a dozen articles a day that appear on Dean's World on a very broad range of topics and viewpoints.
If you don't like the show, cool. Although I will say that if you haven't even tried to watch it then you're just annoying. If you have watched it and decided you don't like it (hi Martin!) that's fine. You don't have to be in my "BSG club" if you don't want to be. But if you haven't even watched it, then really, who the Hell do you think you are?
Either way, let me and the others who like it have our fun, okay? We don't deserve your contempt or your condescension. In your busy life you can probably find some way to live with the fact that 2-3 short Dean's World articles a week appear about Battlestar Galactica.
Here's my proposed deal: I won't treat you like an idiot if you don't watch the show, if you don't treat me and my friends like idiots for liking the show and wanting to talk about it. Fair enough?
By the way, this is frakking hilarious. Thanks Jerry.
Update: Best comment of the week goes to Hokie Pundit, who said:
ANY OF YOU FRACKING PIGS MOVE AND I'LL EXECUTE EVERY LAST MOTHERFRACKING ONE OF YOU!!!Dude, I'm still laughing.
I reminded them that it was my blog, and that the deck would soon be complete, as it was. Now I'm "obsessed" with miniature sculpting. In the past it was guitar playing. Or origami. Or stargazing...
So I figure that my blog is pretty much covering my obsessions pretty well. And surprisingly enough, some people find that interesting.
More seriously: I am completely convinced that what makes good weblogging is that the blogger is very honest and very human. If a good blogger has any agenda at all then he or she is entirely transparent and entirely honest about it.
What we trade in is our own honesty. If we lose that then we have nothing else.
Lucy: Right. No more than once a week...
I don't have a blog anymore, but I know when I did, I'd write what was happening, or what was interesting me. When you're going through home improvements, then that's your world. If you watch a show, that's your world. Every writer says 'write what you know'. So then some other clowns come along and because they want YOU to write about something else, they call you obsessed? Pshaw.
Like Ken said: It's your free ice cream, if people don't like the flavor they can shove off.
they're just jealous of your passion and enjoyment.
spoilers are everywhere, envy drives them.
BSG rocks!
And on top of that, I was extremely disappointed that the BSG thread has replaced the Friday night open thread. I actually looked forward to that as a pleasant start to my weekend. Maybe that makes me a bit pathetic. So be it.
But the thought of complaining to Dean about any of this never entered my mind. It’s called “Dean’s World”, you know.
And in fact, taking the time to ponder or worry if Dean might be obsessed with a particular show, or TV in general, strikes me as being a bit obsessive itself.
I wonder if there's a 12 step group out there that can help him with his problem. :-)