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Articles: The Shmeng House |
Posted by
Sticupus on Thursday, August 29, 2002 - 04:20 AM PST
You: Not yet graduated kindergothen, confused and angsty at times. Sometimes you have good points. Other times you prove you have much to learn. You may sandwich yourself between any of the other siblings to find your place here. You are a Shmeng child.
Devin: Dad. Seems to be absent from your life, only seeing him here or there. The house you live in, the shelter you are given all from somewhere. You may not notice now, but later on in you life you will understand what mom was saying over and over again. "Have some respect! You father works so that you can graduate kindergothen and become a person someday. He works day and night because he loves you! All you have to do is some chores and posts and give him a break! He needs your help sometimes. And do a good job when you do it! All I have been seeing lately is half ass work and little of it..." ‘Blah blah blah’ is all you hear. He sees your ignorance too, yet he holds back. He remembers what is what like when he was your age. He loves you.
Bettie_x: Mom. She always seems to be yelling at you, or giving lectures about her life gone wrong. Ranting and rambling. You don't want to hear it. You say "Yesssss, I know!......." acting like you truly understand where she was coming from in the pissiest way possible, hoping she will stop nagging. Later however, you do it anyway, hoping that nothing bad will come like she warned. You may not know this now but she knows all. She has been there. Before you were born, she has lived a life that would shock you and make you say "Mom did what?". Listen to her, she speaks wisdom. She isn't angry at you, she is angry at the world for being such painful abyss her children could get sucked into. She isn't nagging, she is pleading. She loves you.
Callei: Your big sister. The most popular girl in school, however it happened naturally, she did not put on a face to please the masses into liking her. On the path she is on, she will be valedictorian at her school. She does lots of school work, but always seems to have time for fun. Yes, it happens. You get in fights with her, she makes fun of your friends, and she always gets the hot guys. But she covers for you when you make mistakes on your chores (posts), so mom won't see it and give you that disappointed look. She never makes you feel like you can't live up to her high standards as a person or a student. She is brilliant and probably always going to be better than you in most things, but she believes you can be much better than her. She thinks so highly of you. She loves you.
Shade: Callei's boyfriend. By far the most attractive and intellectual guy in school, which is typical of Callei's high standards and good taste. When you try to talk to him, you always end up saying something that embarrasses you, and makes him give you that weird look. You know that look. It makes you put your head in your pillow at night and say "OOOH! I am so stupid! Why did I say that?!" Of course you know he will never be your boyfriend, but there is no sense in looking bad or stupid in front of an attractive guy, so you always try to be perfect on the rare occasions he notices your existence.
Ickgirl: Your older sister's Best friend. Always around, making the whole house happier. She is gorgeous (you are bisexual), and wonder at the same time if you can be with someone like her, or be pretty like her. She helps Callei with her chores around the house, because she loves the company, work seems effortless to her. She always has nice thing to say to you, and it makes you smile. Everything she touches and cleans around the house makes it prettier, as if it were to compliment her.
Meranda_Jade and Rogue: Auntie Jade and uncle Rogue. You Love going over their house on three day weekends. Auntie Jade is earthy and lovely. She is always cooking something organic, and smiling in the act. She gives the best compliments; compliments that leave you feeling all warm and fuzzy for the rest of the day. Uncle Rogue is quiet, yet not in personality. He has a reading room with more books than you can count, and you assume that because of all the post-its on the backs with references and page numbers, he has read them all. Scary is his knowledge. You wonder where he has gotten all the time for this extensive reading.
Comedian: Your cousin: You don't see him that often, but when you do he is saying the funniest things. You like spending time with him. He is good crude company.
Cashmere: The little sister. Always talking to uncle Rogue. They talk endlessly about things you sometimes can't even understand. She is taking after Callei. She gets along with Dad, Callei, and everyone else in the family more than you. But that's ok, she will never leave you out, talking with her is always easy, and she makes time for people regardless of her duties.
SindelChaos: The poster on your wall.
Mara: Your creepy Haitian neighbor that invites herself to sunbathe in your backyard. She used to quote the bible as she threw lemons at you if you came near her chicken coop.
TheOneWastedChick: The girl at school you had that really intellectual conversation with. You hope to meet her again.
Sticupus: Cashmere's friend, he is always over. Very strange, he wrote "Glory hole" in permanent marker around that hole on the wall in the bathroom. You wonder what it means.
Ironboots: The guy in who lives in the house that you thought was haunted as a child. He doesn't come out of his house much.
Gothy: the picture on Cashmere's dresser. Sometimes turned facedown.
Dolorosa and MorteAscendo: Friends of Callei's. "Roommates"... yeah right.
So many others have come into your house, and many leave and don't come back. Too many friends of your own and of the families to count. Vampcourt, Feralucce, Litho, Closetgothbabe, Monolycus, xaoswolf, DevilBunny, IamSquid, Ianthe99............... So many that if any are neglected, it is ok, for they all have done something to influence and shape the Shmeng house. You will find their essence everywhere. Look around again. Ask yourself: How will you shape this house?
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Re: The Shmeng House
by Meranda_Jade (Meranda@mymind.com)
on Aug 29, 2002 - 06:18 AM
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Wonderful article, Sticupus... Boy, you sure pegged me... I've been smiling all morning... :-) I like being Auntie Jade. You got everyone else pegged really well, too... good job!
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Re: The Shmeng House
by ickgirl on Aug 29, 2002 - 09:20 AM
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very adorable, sticupus!
A joy to read, I couldn't stop giggling. As i scrolled down, with each new name I got excited to see what you wrote about them.
"good crude company" when referring to comedian made me choke!
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Re: The Shmeng House
by Shade (Shade@Gothcult.com)
on Aug 29, 2002 - 09:42 AM
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That was really well written and sooo much fun to read! (The flattery never hurts either :), You are really observant Sticupus, good job.
"Ooooouuur house...is a very very very fine house..."
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by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Aug 29, 2002 - 11:41 AM
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Aw...this was great.
ACK! SOmeone saw through the flaming castrating bitch facade!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
My cover is blown...goddammit...
where's my paddle...go to your room.
hey devin, how they all have an answer to that age old question...
"who's your daddy?"
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Re: The Shmeng House
by Mara (maraisgod@yahoo.com)
on Aug 29, 2002 - 11:43 AM
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Oooo Sticupus..... all have to say is BITE MY ASS!! i'm to fucking lazy to have a chicken coop let alone to go outside to throw lemons you twit!!!!!! and you forgot I'm Big Mama...everyone comes to my house for soul food!!!!! and you know i hate being nekkid!!!! so how can i sunbathe?
*goes back to the dark room only lit by her computer screen*
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Re: Re: Re: The Shmeng House by Rae (darkness_embraced1@yahoo.com) on Aug 29, 2002 - 05:00 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://darknessembraced.vibechild.com | Your the icon artist?? j/k..it's only been here for how many eons? lol. Anyways, I am thinking that some of the newbies just are not familiar with those who have been here since the dawn of Shmeng, I don't think they meant to overlook ya. As pretty and artistic as you are, who could? Well, if it's any consolation Rae still wuvs ya! |
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by DevilBunny (land_of_nod@poczta.onet.pl)
on Aug 29, 2002 - 01:19 PM
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Muhahahahahah... that's just lovely and great. Now it makes me think of this whole website as one big "Married... With Children" or worse...
Yay, and I'm in there to... ego boost, ego boost... ;-)
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I just got done watching some good old "Golden Shower" Japanese nurse porn when I came over to read this.
It seemed vaguely ironic.
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Re: The Shmeng House by Xaoswolf (Xaoswolf at hotmail dot com) on Aug 29, 2002 - 06:19 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://Xaoswolf.tripod.com | Speaking of irony, on the first day we had the internet, my mother told me to show her some of the internet porn she heard so much about. Well, to make a long story short, we both decided that showers of both kind (and if you don't know what they are, well, you're lucky) are not to our taste. However, great danes sure are funny... |
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Interior Decorator Wanted.
by Monolycus on Aug 29, 2002 - 02:01 PM
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Sorry, Stic. Seems like every group of voluntary congregants I have ever known has used that same old "happy extended postnuclear family" analogy and assigned roles of patriarch, matriarch, siblings, cousins, family dentist, best friend's neighbour's pet budgerigar, et cetera, ad nauseum to everyone they can think of (invariably leaving someone out and creating more hurt feelings than stroked egos). Strangely, I KNEW it would be a matter of time before the same got done here in some capacity.
Okay, it's not my place to shake up anyone's Weltbild and if a surrogate family is the imagery you need to make yourself feel cozy then more power to you. I spent too many years trying to break free of the baleful influence of my friends and relatives for that to have any appeal at all to me. Maybe I could get behind some sort of fuedal hierarchy or extended chieftainship paradigm, but the thought of a great big Brady Bunch reunion makes me choke back too many years of suppressed rage. I am, for my part,
simply
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Re: Interior Decorator Wanted. by Sticupus (sticupus@hotmail.com) on Aug 29, 2002 - 07:37 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://www.obolisk.com | Oi! Oi! Oi! Anarchy in the U.K.!! Down with the system! (he he he he).
Whatever you need to kill your angst. You can't discourage my writing or my thoughts. The posts I have made here have been created out of a feeling, concern or experience that I have had. I just get the mind to type and I don't stop until it is finished. I do it as soon after the event that sparked my ambition as possible so that I have the pure mindset to execute my thoughts. Yes, sometimes my thoughts are trite even to me, but I have no regrets on what I create. A lot of thought does go into my posts, however I don't dwell on it, I simply send when completed and proof read. Perhaps the nature of my posts writing will change to a more sophisticated and textbook-esque view depending on the subject matter and if I become a stale person.
I found this article interesting, because I used a familiar template to ascertain qualities and behavior of the family that is Shmeng. Call it typical, but if no thought is truly original, isn’t everything? I will strive to make more grammar mistakes to go away from the standard rules of the English language, then we can abandon all structure and familiarity around us; be pushed into sensory deprivation and glow in our original existence.
Making connections is my thing. I think quantumly (hence why I am a art history nerd). Yes I questioned posting this. Yes, all of your points are valid, but if people use this phantom world that is the internet to judge how loved and popular they are in society, or if weather or not they are exclusively mentioned in a article makes a huge difference in their view of life or their self esteem, I pity them.
And sorry, next time I will type a whole volume of profound metaphors for each of the 450 people on this site. Then we can be great big a polygamous Mormon nuclear family, and you can be the patriarch. Go sulk. |
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Re: Interior Decorator Wanted. by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com) on Aug 29, 2002 - 11:12 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://bettie_x.tripod.com/strangeasangels/ | I saw nothing wrong with it at all...I thought it was funny, and dysfunctionally insightful and better than a LOT of the shit that gets posted up here (and I"m not talking those ever amusing multi posts either *snicker*) and thoroughly delightful.
Don't apologise for your work. Ever. Right or wrong or indifferent, it's yours. People can have whatever opinions they want of it, but always stick to your guns. If you are always true to yourself, without fail, you'll never have to make apologies or excuses.
All I have to say is fine work and keep it up. |
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Re: Interior Decorator Wanted. by Xaoswolf (Xaoswolf at hotmail dot com) on Aug 30, 2002 - 05:51 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://Xaoswolf.tripod.com | I'd listen to her, I mean Mom is always right isn't she? At least that's what Dad says(at least when Mom is out of ear shot). Besides, if you don't listen to her, she might shave off your eyebrowse in your sleep. |
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Re: Interior Decorator Wanted. by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com) on Aug 30, 2002 - 12:16 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://bettie_x.tripod.com/strangeasangels/ | That's RIGHT! Bwahahahhaah! Beware of mother with the mighty razor of doom!!!
I only shaved my eyebrows ONCE and I was drunk in the bathtub.
Long story.
Beware...razor stubble on your forehead is SHIT. |
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Perhaps avacoda with burnt umber trim by Monolycus on Aug 30, 2002 - 09:45 AM (User info | Send a Message) | Once again, I doubt very much that what I said is going to keep Stic from ever picking up his quill (or sitting at his keyboard) again. All I said was that it didn't work for me. Everything that falls out of us is not always gold, and I think we are apt to become better in the long run if someone points out our weaknesses instead of just praising our strengths.
Prism wrote an article comparing this environment to a dark club. I thought that was fresh, different, and very well done. Callei compared our motivations and emotions to flavours of Italian soda. I thought that was insightful, clever and unique. Unfortunately, I think the "family" metaphor is banal and the only appeal that it might have is in a self-referential sense (viz."Oh, look! He said something nice about me! How insightful!"). Give me something to crow about and I'll crow as loudly as anyone else.
In the meanwhile, Stic will be just fine. Just about every name he dropped has responded favourably, and if he didn't mention someone, the article wouldn't have enough appeal for them to respond to it anyway. The article is still batting 900, so we don't have to rush to anyone's defense. I am
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Re: Perhaps avacoda with burnt umber trim by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com) on Aug 30, 2002 - 12:27 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://bettie_x.tripod.com/strangeasangels/ | All well and true, but not every article posted has to mean anything to everyone. People here pick and choose what they read, like, dislike and either choose to post or not. Your opinions are your own, but just because you don't see it as innovative or interesting or applying to yourself doesn't make it a weakness. He posted what he saw it as, just as callei posted things as she saw (which was on people and life in general, not about how we all interact here) and tho I"ve never had italian soda in my life, I thought it was interesting. Prism wrote how she saw things here as a "dark club". I've never set foot inside a goth club, or most clubs in general, but it was interesting tho the dark club scenario wasn't something I had experience with.
Sticupus wrote of it as a sort of family, "nuclear" if you will. I have a good family, but not a rather run of the mill typical one, but it was a little closer to my own experiences than the other two, and I found it equally (tho no more so) as the other two.
It's a viewpoint. If it doesn't apply to everyone they'll get over it. NOTHING in life applies to everyone.
It's vital in life to have constructive critisism as well as praise, but the key word is constructive.
I saw just flat out sour grapes.
Hey I'm nobody to talk, I've got a FRIDGE full of sour grapes that I live on. But come on, nobody here agrees with everyone and their points of view.
Typical maybe, but no less valid. |
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My grapes are fine, thank you by Monolycus on Aug 30, 2002 - 02:04 PM (User info | Send a Message) | How is my commenting that I found the article to be uninspired a case of sour grapes? I didn't like it, plenty of others seem to have liked it, I commented that I didn't like it, plenty of others commented that they seemed to have liked it. And as long as we are discussing the validity of viewpoints, your defense of the article at the expense of my observation undermine's my viewpoint. I'll sleep just fine and all, but I will have to give some serious consideration to this issue of only "acceptable" people being permitted to have dissenting opinions. I am
an increasingly angry
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Re: My grapes are fine, thank you by callei (plyn@plynlymon.com) on Aug 30, 2002 - 02:20 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://www.plynlymon.com | your giving her something to fight against, therefor she fights.
I too thought the family metaphor abit silly. I can understand the genesis of the position tho (the age and development of the author, their frame of referance, thier desire to have a position in the hierachy (at it were) and the need to codify or label that with which they interact) and i can approve of the effort of creation.
if we were going to use the american version of the family structure that is presented on tv, i think it would make more sense to use the soap opera model (evil twins, spontaneous pregancies, tropical islands) than the married with children model. Personally i would rather be the burgler or insane neighbor that calls the cops all the time.
My "family" background is also quite different that the "norm" and i spend years away from my family (no contact at all) before i was ready to talk to them again. I dont relate, except in a tv weirdness kinda way, to the idea of the nuke family. I personally relate to the idea of the gang or team better, having had both better and more memorable experiences with them.
Again i appluad the effort to conceptualize the universe in terms that the authors mind can encompass, and i applaud your (Mono's) attempt to de-saccrinize the mood and perhaps reach out to those that dont internalize this metaphor.
all and all despite the dubious praise, i think i'll go with mono on this one. i can appriciate the words but not the sentances. |
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Re: My grapes are fine, thank you by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com) on Aug 30, 2002 - 03:54 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://bettie_x.tripod.com/strangeasangels/ | Oh hey I'm am not fighting against anyone, I'm not looking for or taking sides, the comment (initial) came sort of out of the blue (to me). It came off to me as sour grapes, and as ick put it, was quite a bit misunderstood. I don't think you're (mono) mean, I don't think you're a pouter, and I've never thought any of the input you've added anywhere to be unwelcome or negative.
I'm not attacking, I have no reason to be angry or vindictive or bother you. I can stand by my opinions and still see yours, and I will always always respect opinions.
I saw it as an amusing metaphor, you didn't. Silly and overused, yes, but I've always got room in my life for silly overused issues.
At least isn't not another "What is goth" thread.
Big deal, we'll all live.
All I can say is I'm done, your words as mine misunderstood, and I'm in no mood to make enemies over something ridiculous as a harmless metaphor gone off the tracks.
I'm gonna go figure out why I've been puking all day and my head is on the brink of exploding.
Could be too many grapes, no?
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Deep, Cleansing Breath by Monolycus on Aug 30, 2002 - 09:50 PM (User info | Send a Message) | Yeah, I was getting a little bent out of shape there with the frustration of trying to communicate. Fortunately, the reality check has cleared and, as the crackhead at the bus stop always says: "It's all good." (At least that's what I think he's been saying.)
I hope you get feeling better, Bettie. I was there a few days ago myself. |
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Re: Deep, Cleansing Breath by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com) on Aug 31, 2002 - 10:07 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://bettie_x.tripod.com/strangeasangels/ | We all have our days darlin'...I KNEW there was a little more up than met the eyes.
The crackhead outside the mall where I work always says "I'm okay". Even if you don't ask.
Then he picks up things off the ground and puts them in pockets he doesn't have.
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Re: Heh, Evil Twins by Xaoswolf (Xaoswolf at hotmail dot com) on Sep 04, 2002 - 08:38 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://Xaoswolf.tripod.com | Morte walks into the room to find Dolo eating some pancakes.
Morte: Gasp, it's my evil twin
Dolo: I thought you were my evil twin
Morte: No, you have Tuesday Friday, and every other weekend, today is definately Wednesday
Dolo: Hmmm... I do believe you are right
Morte: I'm here to tell you that I'm pregnant with your baby
Dolo: I thought you were my evil twin Brother?
Morte: No no no, it's Wednesday remember?
Dolo: Well shit...
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Something in mauve, perhaps by Monolycus on Aug 30, 2002 - 09:18 AM (User info | Send a Message) | Sorry, Stic. You got eleven pats on the back, I don't think my criticism will kill you... even you don't need approval THAT badly. I wasn't under the impression that we could only post replies if they agreed with everything that everyone else was saying.
Anyway, I never had any intention to "...discourage (your) writing or... thoughts". If you re-read what I actually said instead of being defensive because one person out of the herd didn't call it a work of genius, I told you that if that kind of imagery works for you then run with it. It doesn't work for me. You'll live.
Keep posting and I am sure that eventually there will be something that I, too, will want to attach to my refrigerator with a fruit-shaped magnet. In the meanwhile, keep the expectation for unanimous approval in some kind of perspective, okay? Go sulk yourself. I am, I was, I will be
expecting something more.
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Re: Something in mauve, perhaps by ickgirl on Aug 30, 2002 - 09:51 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://www.envy.nu/ickgirl | I understood the position of being disgusted with the nuclear family as metaphor. I also think that your first comment was perhaps misunderstood a bit?
If you find something vile (example: family), you don't want to view other, positive kinships (example: friends) in the same light, or use the same names to name them.
I think all of us can understand that, completely. Look back on some of Devin’s articles dealing with ways of naming people in your life, and the inherent frustration therein.
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Re: Something in mauve, perhaps by Monolycus on Aug 30, 2002 - 10:21 AM (User info | Send a Message) | That was the subjective part of my criticism, Ick. Because I, personally, find the idea of "family" as hateful I am going to have some difficulty equating it with things that I find positive. I really don't fault Stic's article on those grounds, though. He would have no way of knowing that, nor would it affect what he is trying to convey if he feels differently. The artistic metaphor attempts to find as close to a one-to-one relationship as it can... for example, let's say I painted cute ducklings to evoke a feeling of innocence because ducks are innocent to me. If someone's best friend were mauled to death by ducklings, the metaphor would be lost entirely for them. While it is valid for that person to say "That painting of ducks does not mean the same things to me that it means to the artist", it is unfair to expect the artist to have known (or cared) about that when they were expressing their own feelings.
The objective criticism that I made about the article is that the metaphor is hackneyed. I have seen it over and over (and perhaps, because it doesn't work for me, I am more aware of having seen it). If someone attempts to use a metaphor that has been done as many times as this one has, they should have some new twist or it will come across as just another tired cliche. In this case, it works for the people whose egos are involved (mostly, I was mentioned and it still doesn't work for me), but I fail to see where it would have anything to say for someone who was visiting the site and did not know any of the people involved... which indicates to me that it really doesn't say anything at all. It becomes the artistic equivalent of an inside joke, but one that does not have anything at all to offer someone on the outside as well-done artistic inside jokes do.
Incidentally, I've read those articles of Devin's that you are referring to, and I agree completely. Thanks for understanding what I was trying to say.
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I still dont quite get the roomates comment...but hey..thanks...its always nice to be noticed.
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This whole article was in and out of my mind in a hour. Yes, I made some attempt in making it clever or vaguely intellectual, but that was just to appeal to myself. I don't know why I wrote this article, nor do I care. I do now regret posting it. I think everyone is reading into it too deeply. Not to mention this was not at all produced for flattery; You people know who you are, how you act, and how you shape Shmeng. I don't need to illustrate any of this to you. This wasn't written for anyone mentioned in the article. In fact it lacks a true audience all together (in other words I should have kept it to myself as it was intended). It was a thought that danced around in my mind for a moment, and before I knew it I was nonchalantly pressing the submit button. I would have just sent this to Cashmere so we can have a giggle, but she is very busy in New York for a period of time that I am unsure of. I was being childish, I just had to tell someone, like it was a big secret.
Aside from that this was just one of those thing that I do. I try express everything I can; every thought I have. I find it scary if people shut out new ideas or thoughts and forget them, possibly take them to the grave. So much is lost if you keep it bottled up inside, however I will keep my ideas now toward my art than my public writing. I will pass all my Shmeng posts through a fine comb to ensure that this mistake of an article never happens again.
And I must mention, Monolycus has unsheathed a truth of Shemng: you can't just post anything here regardless if it isn‘t poetry, isn’t teen angst, or spell checked. Oh and Monolycus, perhaps you should make more than one post in your lifetime to see if you actually have anything interesting to say. You have made one post, I have made three. And yes, I bet you like I can write, but how do you appeal to the Shmeng community as a gestalt? You do not have the experience to comment I believe (a classic art critic: no experience but the balls to act like it.). Write something. Think. Do something never done before, and post it. And try holding back on commenting on this one, just try to think of that great profound earth shattering idea.
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Re: The Shmeng House by Sticupus (sticupus@hotmail.com) on Aug 30, 2002 - 04:21 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://www.obolisk.com | Also I will avoid writing anything personal towards anyone here again. I don't know any of you nor should I toy around with the idea that I do. You are strangers not family, not friends... This is obvious, and I shouldn't ignore that. |
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Re: The Shmeng House by ickgirl on Aug 30, 2002 - 08:29 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://www.envy.nu/ickgirl | come now, don't be mellow dramatic
i think your story encouraged an intelligent discussion.
read everyone's comments again, but with a very open mind
*wink*
everything's fine, and everyone IS playing nice, just change your perspective
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Pleased to meet you by Monolycus on Aug 30, 2002 - 10:07 PM (User info | Send a Message) | My friends call me Wolf... now you can as well. Now that we are no longer strangers...
Just take a deep breath and look at the facts. The vast majority wrote that they liked what you had to say... you stimulated a fairly worthwhile dynamics discussion... you generated 34 comments (including this one) and some 200 hits in the space of two days... whether everyone "likes" it or not, those are all hallmarks of a successful article. Pull your feelers in a bit and stop being upset. Nobody shot your puppy here.
I am bristling a little over the remark about my not being "qualified" to comment (as I am sure I was expected to) because of the number of submissions I have made. I'll have to look at the FAQsheet again, but I am not aware that it makes any difference who has submitted more articles than whom... if you play by the rules, you have as much voice as anyone (except for Devin and the moderators). Since you asked about my credentials, I wrote and published a community newsletter for six months and a college newsletter for two years. I do know how to write reasonably well (and not everything that falls out of my pen is Pulitzer material either), and when I have something on my mind that I need to share, I will submit it. I will not be goaded into making submissions just so that I can pull rank on someone else. If that were the name of the game, I would switch to chess.
Now... you can pull your tray down from its locked, upright position. There was a patch of turbulence, but the captain expects the skies to be clearing up now. *insert smiley face emoticon here* I am, I was, I will be
no longer a stranger.
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Re: The Shmeng House by Kira (mod_complex@hotmail.com) on Sep 03, 2002 - 10:33 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://starchyld9.deviantart.com | "(a classic art critic: no experience but the balls to act like it.)"
I hate to beat a dead horse, but be careful. If you fancy yourself an artist (versus just an art critic) you can't get your panties in a wad every time someone criticizes your work.
I don't think Monolycus' original post was a personal attack on you, although you must have perceived it that way. I really think he was just offering constructive criticism. But implying someone doesn't have anything interesting to say because he/she doesn't post much is an attack. He has just as much a place here as you do, and experience to comment has nothing to do with the volume of one's work.
Posting articles is a way to express yourself, and in trade for that expression you open yourself up to criticism. I don't care if someone has posted zero articles or one hundred, they probably have something valid to say about something.
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Re: The Shmeng House
by WorthlessLiar on Aug 31, 2002 - 11:11 PM
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wow sticupus..that entry rocked. I guess I'm still in somebody's womb. Or the annoying kid who rides around on his sister's bicycle hoping some one will will play with me. you know me, I'm the one who taps on your window in the evening, when all of you are eating pizza and watching movies. I guess big momma isn't raising me well. Broken home and all.
i'm sorry, i got trailed off. Good article, sticupus.
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nicky
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Re: The Shmeng House
by ThatOneWastedChick on Sep 02, 2002 - 09:09 AM
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The moment I read the first sentence of your article I fell in love with. As I read the rest of it I became entranced by it. When I read what you wrote about me I nearly died. Thanks for making my day Sticupus.
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Re: The Shmeng House
by MystryssRavynDarque (amanda-at-vibechild-dot-com)
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I love this. Shmeng is one big family. I am so glad to have been allowed to join it. Shmeng really is the best family a girl could hope for. We have our spats, we threaten to leave each other, we even say we hate each other at times, but we all really do love each other to some extent. I still don't remember how I found this family. Maybe I didn't.
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