Not really. I’ll take Ludwig over Wolfgang any day. But I have not bitched in at least 1/2 hour; thus, I am overdue.
One thing that totally gives me an emotional wedgie is this: When you reply to a blog post that asks an open-ended question, and you put a lot of time and care and thought into your reply, and you’re not acknowledged by the original poster, not told that you’re brilliant, not told that you’re a fucking idiot. What I mean is, NO ONE who comments is acknowledged and the blog doesn’t have enough traffic (read: any personality) to generate its own activity.
Hit’n’run poster who was doing her time on a group blog. I’m on several like that. They have one thing in common: They’re LDS. They’re about writing. PLONK
I don’t think I’ve done this (I try to be conscientious about commenting), but if I have, feel free to shove it back in my face.
And while I’m bitching, might as well throw this out, too:
Takes me about 3 days through the blogosphere these days to get tired of the latest catch phrases and buzzwords. And I’ve used some of them in the last 6 months. Well, no more.
drinking the Kool-Aid (thank you, O’Reilly, like, 3 years ago)
honing your craft (and plain ol’ “craft” by itself by now, no matter what it’s in reference to)
made of awesome
made of win
meme
OMGWTFBBQ and any variant thereof
FTW (for the win)
trope
srsly
And also? My blog is just way too cluttered for my taste. I’m going to have to figure out something workable before my ADD gets violent.
What are you latest internet pet peeves?
For fun and a free e-copy of The Proviso, be the first to peg the reference in this post’s title.
January 27th, 2009 at 8:53 am
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Well, I refuse to cheat and I don’t need it anyway, but I am going to go do a search for “srsly” so I can be annoyed to. What is that?
January 27th, 2009 at 9:14 am
“Seriously,” without vowels.
January 27th, 2009 at 9:29 am
The catch phrases and buzzwords that annoy me the most are the ones I keep catching myself using. I’m not even going to write what they are in an effort to teach my fingers to avoid them. Trying, trying, trying…
January 27th, 2009 at 11:05 am
I hate webspeak abbreviations with the fire of a thousand suns. I’m not talking about the occasional LOL or WTF kind of thing. I mean when I see text-like “sentences” like “srsly ppl i lrv tht bk” in blog posts or comments.
Seriously, people. What the fuck? Buy a vowel.
January 27th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Since I already have a copy, I won’t play, but I do believe it is from one of my all-time fave book/movie combos. I did a google search just to make sure…
Anyway, I often first hear fanfic/blog speak from my sister, who I laugh at, until I finally see it online myself. I draw the line at internet-speak crossing into daily life. Except, the other day, when I said hehe, instead of actually laughing, my sister finally got to laugh at me.
January 27th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
@Sam, fave, really? Mine, too!!! Hawkeye—who’d'a thunk it, right? Rowr.
Dangit. Need somebody here who hasn’t read the damned book who also knows what that’s from.
January 27th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Trope.
That one sends shivers of horror down my spine (but because of grad school, not blogging). Don’t think I’ve ever seen that word on a blog before. You must haunt more elevated regions of the blogosphere than I do.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
In my program, it was a “device” and the cool kids (you know, the ones who sat around the student union talking about Nietszche and Kant like they knew them biblically) used “conceit” interchangeably, albeit improperly.
I didn’t know the word “trope” until I came to blogland. Last year.
January 27th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Pfft. Tropes are like archetypes — totally for lightweights. It’s all about the epistemes and the chronotopes.
January 27th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Beethoven FTW.
My blog is cluttered too. I dislike, but haven’t the energy to fix.
I occasionally fail to respond to a really really interesting comment on my own blog. I regret, but haven’t the energy to fix. (Gee, is it a pattern?)
I also sometimes fail to comment on really really interesting posts because I read them too late at night and my comment starts simple but quickly arrives at a state of near-paralytic hypotaxis. That energy thing, it might be connected to the sleep thing.
Also: I rather like that “BBQ” has become a synecdoche for “everything appalling”. It’s so… so… so po-po-mo.
January 28th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
RfP, I hope you got some good sleep last night.
January 28th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Epistemes…
Sounds suspiciously Foucauldian. You’re not one of those subversive New Historicists, are you?
January 29th, 2009 at 7:59 am
William is subversion itself.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Room With a View. Thanks, google.
January 29th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Ding ding ding! Christine!
Prepare your email inbox for 11MB of wordy goodness.
January 31st, 2009 at 10:09 am
Dang. All those comments and I miss out by one. Guess I’ll have to fork over the cash after all.
February 1st, 2009 at 9:20 am
And thank you!!!
(That’s what you get for not hanging around more.
)
February 1st, 2009 at 10:32 am
or not flanging around more!
February 1st, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I just noticed that the page title for this post gets cut off in the browser tab, so that it says “Beethoven makes me pee…”
Heh. The imaginagion runs wild…(and yes, I have a 10-year-old’s sense of humor).