{"id":877,"date":"2009-01-27T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=877"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:00:57","slug":"beethoven-makes-me-peevish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/beethoven-makes-me-peevish\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven makes me peevish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090127_peevish.jpg\" alt=\"A still shot of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) with the caption \u201cMother doesn\u2019t like me playing Beethoven. She says I\u2019m peevish afterwards.\u201d\" width=\"303\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16035\" \/>Not really. I\u2019ll take Ludwig over Wolfgang any day. But I have not bitched in at least 1\/2 hour; thus, I am overdue.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019re not acknowledged by the original poster, not told that you\u2019re brilliant, not told that you\u2019re a fucking idiot. What I mean is, NO ONE who comments is acknowledged and the blog doesn\u2019t have enough traffic (read: any personality) to generate its own activity.<\/p>\n<p>Hit\u2019n\u2019run poster who was doing her time on a group blog. I\u2019m on several like that. They have one thing in common: They\u2019re LDS. They\u2019re about writing. <span class=\"blue\"><strong>PLONK<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve done this (I try to be conscientious about commenting), but if I have, feel free to shove it back in my face.<\/p>\n<p>And while I\u2019m bitching, might as well throw this out, too:<\/p>\n<p>Takes me about 3 days through the blogosphere these days to get tired of the latest catch phrases and buzzwords. And I\u2019ve used some of them in the last 6 months. Well, no more.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>drinking the Kool-Aid (thank you, O\u2019Reilly, like, 3 years ago)<br \/>\nhoning your craft (and plain ol\u2019 \u201ccraft\u201d by itself by now, no matter what it\u2019s in reference to)<br \/>\nmade of awesome<br \/>\nmade of win<br \/>\nmeme<br \/>\nOMGWTFBBQ and any variant thereof<br \/>\nFTW (for the win)<br \/>\ntrope<br \/>\nsrsly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And also? My blog is just way too cluttered for my taste. I\u2019m going to have to figure out something workable before my ADD gets violent.<\/p>\n<p>What are you latest internet pet peeves?<\/p>\n<p>For fun and a free e-copy of <em>The Proviso<\/em>, be the first to peg the reference in this post\u2019s title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really. I\u2019ll 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16992,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/16992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}