you can tell i'm busy because i've blogged twice today. that increases my weekly blogging quota by......i dunno. a lot.
there's this scene in the movie finding forrester (or as i like to call it, black will hunting,) where sean "the rapist for $400" connery insightfully says
"we always sound better in writing than we do out loud"
in the context of blogs, i think this is certainly the case. being an avid blog stalker, i find that often i feel like i can sort of create a mental projection of what somebody is like from reading their blog. then when or if i actually meet them in real life, they are often nothing like i expected.
maybe its just me, but do lots of people flat out talk and think differently on their blogs? i realize it has a lot to do with the medium itself; blogs are often used for specific purposes, such as when people are in good moods, procrastinating moods, depressed ranting moods....etc. they aren't meant to paint broad and accurate strokes of ones personality.
talking to ivan the other day, he said "when people say i'm not what they expected, i wonder....what did they expect?"
i wonder....do most people blog about who they are.....or rather who they want people to think they are? or inversely....do blogs represent who we really are, while in reality we often hide our true personalities and quirks in order to project a more status quo image.....?
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