wedgaoke
> bonjour raymi,
>
> for some stupid and unknow reason i thought i’d send you an email today,
> knowing that:
>
> 1. it’ll be lame because who am i kidding, emailing someone because you like
> his/her blog makes me feel like a teenager ‘i’m with the band!’ fan
> 2. emailing raymitheminx is like emailing michael moore, both great &
> impressive persons, but you never know if the email is actually being read
>
> but yeaaaah….
>
> I just want you to know that i’ve read countless of blogs over the years. i
> have even bee, blogging for a good 3 and a half years, since the age of 17.
> and i usually have little to no interest in girls’ blogs for i don’t really
> like girls’ writing in general.
>
> But you? We’re seriously into something different, out there, with balls,
> which yes, as the “blogfather” that you are, inspire people.
>
> i’ve been admiring people like tony pierce for a long time, and i finally
> found your blog via his two months ago. i’ve been reading your blog daily
> ever since even tho i prefer never to comment and just observe (does it make
> me a creepy voyeur, i don’t know). but sometimes i just have to speak out
> and email writers like who to send them another ‘ohmygodyourblogisgreat’
> type of boring e-mail.
>
> Seriously now, writing this makes me feel all pathetic for I know it’s so
> unoriginam. But seriously Raymi/Lauren, it’s because of unafraid blogger
> like you that the internet is a worth it place. It’s because of people like
> you that i have a little bit of hope in humanity, for i realise there are
> still bright minds out there who don’t give a fuck.
>
> so maybe you’ll stop blogging and maybe you won’t, but i feel like i’ve just
> discovered a great artist (and yes i just used the -a word, and with reason
> mind you) and i don’t want to stop reading you. i realise i have no right to
> say this, and i hate myself for writing this because who the fuck do i think
> i am to write such things, but honestly, the world -internet or not- needs
> your unafraid attitude and your fears and your rage and your pain. Not
> because we’re a group of voyeurs who desperatly need to see the rise and
> fall of people we don’t even know like in reality tv, but because we need
> real, intelectual and graphic, violent controversy in order to make us
> think.
>
> And you are able to provide this, unlike so many boring bloggers – therefore
> you are one of those few writers able to change the world, and if not the
> world, the way some readers see the world.
>
> Honestly, i’m not kissing arse here. I just want to enlight the fact that i
> am one of your 4154 billions reader who thinks that you rock the e-world and
> that without people like you, the e-humanity or whatever the name you choose
> for this fucked up parallel reality is doomed to failure.
>
> That being said, i’ll ask you to excuse my english and to please not give up
> writing.
> you give me hope.
>
> glamtastically yours,
>
> jess from france