A Blog About My Blog

Okay:

The jig is up. I have been found out. All of my friends know I blog. I kept it a secret for a while. But word got around and now, people are talking.

Most seem to have mixed feelings about it.

My big sister is very supportive. She emails me about my typos and calls me when she thinks I've said something interesting or made a thinly veiled cry for help.

Gill thinks it's great for business.(Remember, we're supposed to be selling records here). Occasionally he may come up to me and say, "So...you've got fucked up feet, son?"

Our White Homegirl forwards it to her friends and is generally, enthusiastically supportive.

And there are others.

But what I've been hearing more of than anything else these days is, "This doesn't go in your fucking blog!"

In fact, conversations often begin that way. We're all sitting at the bar having drinks and shooting the shit then someone has something to say. "I remember this one time...(PAUSE)...and this better not end up in your fucking blog, Claude."

Then everyone else at the table kind of nods as if to say, "Yeah. And nothing I said tonight better end up in your blog either."

So, allow me to clear something up. I rarely ever blog about people without telling them first or immediately afterwards if I think there's even the slightest potential that they might find it an invasion of privacy (i.e. "I think I'm gonna blog about this" or "You showed up in my blog today"). And I have never refused a personal request to delete a sentence, a passage or even an entire blog!

But that's not really what they're saying.

"Oh, we know you won't mention names, and you'll obscure locations and change details. But I don't want the gist of what I'm saying to be repeated."

So, it's like an intellectual properties issue. Something I had never anticipated.

For the record, I don't think it's really fair. It's hard blogging everyday. I need good material. And I think I practice good discretion.

It took me months to convince Our White Homegirl to let me write about the "big...round titties" incident.

You read this blog. I've never put a friend out there.

"My homeboy told me his herpes was so off the hook yesterday he had to call in to work." Yes, that's funny. But certainly a betrayal of trust, I think.

So, if you know me personally and you're concerned about how much personal information to share with me for fear that I may make it public knowledge via the Internet, don't sweat it.

Now, people I don't like should try very hard to not say anything stupid around me. More than likely, you'll end up in my fucking blog.


Thanks for reading.



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