I started to respond to one of the many meta posts from an older Kossack this morning, in one of the diaries about the passing of Dave From Queens.
A question/point I saw made over and over was Why Is This Blogger Being Honored, or Why Is This Shit Even On The Rec List? Because That Blogger Was EVIL!
And lo and behold, it didn't take long to step into the path of flying donuts. Unbelievable. A man is dead--one that wrote a lot of apparently-popular stuff here--and all some of you care about is serving up breakfast. Whatever.
I'll probably regret all this, starting with this intro, but what the hell, I'm off today...
Maybe people are just recommending it for the overall subject matter? Maybe they find it fascinating (like a train wreck, but eminently-readable anyway....). Maybe they'd like to know more?? Who the fuck really needs to even question that?
Why, indeed. Why do I even care? I just happened upon the whole thing when I logged in this morning and started perusing the Rec List. I wasn't There. I don't know What All Happened, in the sense of Real Life. This is a BLOG. I come here for information, I don't come here for a daily dose of Real Life. I have my own, thanks!
I got to wondering this morning if that's what distinguishes me or not on blogs like this. Because I have a (mundane, everyday) RL, maybe that makes me a "nobody" to most of you, as it were. I don't know anyone here in RL (at least, not that they'll admit to, hehe). But to come here and read this, some of you seem to think that A) your opinion of The Subject at Hand is The Only Important Opinion (because You Were There) and B) that nothing bad ever went on in DFQ's diaries besides his reactions.
If there are others entitled to have a problem with all this whether they were There or not, then why not me too? Like I said, I'm off today--so here's my problem with this whole thing. I don't have all the facts,; they don't seem to all be presented in one cohesive place. I don't see any reason to even care about what some of you think about why DFQ might have gone off the deep end at all or why he supposedly felt compelled to threaten someone else's family, unless I know that the posters he claims were harassing him all along were as pure as the goddamn driven snow. And I'm not getting a sense of that, for sure.
For starters, at least one of them gave me the creeps on a regular basis during various and sundry discussion--as a regular respondent to diaries, he always had a lot of 'first posts' under his belt, and has always seemed rather stalkerish in general on this blog. And remember, this is only my opinion, but it is such--and has been, for awhile--that person just never seemed to be here in the, shall we say, spirit of why most of us really ARE here (whether we're nobodies or not).
What I am getting a sense of is that there's far more being talked up about Dave From Queen's reactions than what may have compelled them to begin with.
Say what you want about your reaction--it's your blog too, and you're entitled to one, especially if you ARE closer to this situation IN RL. But there are other reactions that are just as important as yours, and at least one of them may or may not have caused the ensuing mayhem that became DFQ's Real Life.
Who are these posters that DFQ claimed was harassing him, where did they go, and why would DFQ--a seemingly reasonable guy, with, as noted, over 700 frackin' diaries under his byline--suddenly become pariah to so many who seem to be such Somebodies around here? Tell the whole story, please, if the Rec List must endure such drama. Otherwise, I'm liable to start tapping my Bullshit Diversion meter, and I'm just insufferable when I start talking about that subject (or so some others--Somebodies and Nobodies alike--have told me, IIRC....)