look i just made this whimsical little dude.
yes that is an emperor pin that noel gave me, yeah i don’t know anything about them either other than i made fun of them once on my blog and some metal geek completely lost his mind over it so if you buy this guy you would be holding a piece of blog history in your hands. i think they broke up. anyway, there will never ever be a shortage of material for heavy metal jokes.
his name is ruby and he is into gambling, sailing, and enjoys the musical stylings of john tesh.
if you are interested email me at raymitheminx@gmail.com don’t try and barter with me in my comments that’s tacky and embarrassing and shows that you are not serious at all but a 20 year old dickhead with no class, or money. also, if you want to special order one of my retarded creations and/or have suggestions/a request, or also want a painting done on commission, lemme know.
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every month or so, keith sends me an over-analytical, arrogant, novel-length email, criticisizing me or you guys or whatever, here is one he just sent, try not to let it make your eyes look in opposite directions. it’s not that i am unintelligent and lazy, i dunno, i feel like the dude is a bit unstable. i appreciate the effort and thought put into writing me this buuuut…. ungh. here is a blog post of his that is obviously about me.
dear raymi
brave? nudity
the last picture in your most recent post is actually a sweet picture, the movie poster all hazed up, the light glowing, the nipple, it worked out well.
aside from that
i was badgering you in earlier emails because i believed that seeking out attention was trite, and subsequently i believed that trite behaviors were to be avoided at all costs… which may be true, but now i see that as far as humanity, and general social existence, is concerned… seeking attention and getting it, in the way that you are, is merely an undeniable part of the social landscape. and my desire to see you use your literary talent in a way that transcends diarist blogging is just like hoping for any number of idealistic absurdities. i.e. communism or utopianism. because the sort of pursuit i envision with your talent might not be as advantageous for you as flexing within the model that has been proven to provide you with a version or a variant of what it is that you seek.
in essence, i am scum. and i have been looking for your attention all this time with these emails when i have been taking issue with the fact that you engage in the pursuit of attention and instant gratification. try not to forget that i know i am scum in all this. i dislike the fact that people idolize so quickly, however this is, again, a natural part of the social landscape considering that you play the role of…. say… a star athlete to a sports fan, to the people that enjoy reading quick-witted pop-culture critiques and quasi hipster-life stories. idolatry is just a brute social fact.
there are some problems with the issues i have taken up, i couldn’t possibly know the extent of your goal set, and i have no way of proving that the things i am calling trite are ultimately negative. but despite the fact that i realize holes in my argument and despite the ridiculousness of my choice to email these almost-diatribes… i think that there is something completely fucked about the dynamics of the cultural world that allow for your blog to be considered good entertainment. it certainly takes talent to do what you do, but talent doesn’t always translate in to a quality product. In comparison to all the diarist blogs that i have seen yours is by far the most engaging, but the nature of the thing is that you are providing details from your life to satiate the entertainment appetites of other internet lurkers. There are no achievements that come from reading your blog, it is more of a giddy laugh because of the way that you turn a phrase or the way that you view a given situation, but without fail those things provide people with a norm base that puts them no better off in relation to moral issues or general conduct issues, the normative framework your blog provides is based off of your version of cool… and that sort of thing can fuck with the reader’s head without them knowing it, and they are getting fucked with without reaping any benefit, of course that happens when they watch advertisements and MTV, but i am grouping you with those other things as a negative… in other words when they read your blog they are just numbing up for a while… like reading the davinci code or something along those lines.
if you assume the stance that you usually do upon receiving my emails you will respond with a sentence or less, which is probably warranted considering the difference in our respective styles, but i would like to hear what it is that you think about the idol loving and the normative structure you provide others (it really seems like a comfort-food variant to me) because you get to experience it from a completely different angle… i know you are smart enough to see the over-arching trends. i have jumped to my conclusions already and that is why i seek the opinions of others, to get me to see where the value lies… to provide me with some detail from a perspective that i have no access to. i am not looking to post anything anywhere. this is simple curiosity and moderate attention-seeking.
-Keith
