Disclaimer time!
It seems that a few Russians with a net of interconnected livejournal pages have picked up something I wrote several months ago. Much traffic, but nothing compared to the influx of new readers that resulted from the linkage of the TV article. Gosh. I feel it necessary to, again, restate my personal motto - I am just kidding! Whenever I am being serious, I usually try to be very explicit about it, as in "I am being serious now, our government is screwing us," or "Seriously, this problem set is very difficult." The key is the unambiguous admission of absolute sobriety. So, a humorous rant, replete with massive generalizations, should be filed into the funny-ha-ha category, or even into the isn't-she-cute category, but definitely not into the significant-social-commentary-to-be-quoted-and-analyzed-ad-nauseam category. You see?
4 Comments:
you know, i never understood how livejournal works. one post appears on 8 different pages...
plus, i think it's funny how people who don't know you, often don't get the joke. i mean, the overall joke. i think you should be proud of that.
i think the disclaimers are funny, and quoteable.
hey it's nice when people care enough to disagree so that you need a disclaimer! i am not even worthy of comment spam.
I think there is a responsibility that falls on the writer, just as a speaker in conversation; to know that the other party will understand what they hear and not what you say. The tv article could have been (is?) a complete joke, but to a reader it's text and we interpret it. I sent it to many people, who all agreed but kept watching cable 5 hours a night.
I suppose that's the joke.
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