2007/01/20

"If this is how your blog is going to read, I am not interested any more."

That's fine with me.

I've been writing this blog for just over four years, and it hasn't always been serious; it hasn't always been about my homelessness, and it hasn't always been about my Mom's illness either. It started as a political rant, and I have always thrown in humor from time to time - and my choice of humor is often widely regarded as tasteless and I accept that. Ha!

If you don't like my sense of humor 100% of the time, that is perfectly OK with me. I don't like most other people's senses of humor 100% of the time either. If you never like my sense of humor, just go away.

I don't write this blog to make anybody happy other than myself, and I don't make any money when someone reads it. If you don't like it, don't read it. That's why I don't read Ann Coulter: I don't like what she has to say.

Freedom means not having to read anything you don't want to read. It also allows one to write what one wants. I don't make racial or ethnic jokes. If I can find humor in alcoholism, good for me! I am an alcoholic, and therefore am eminently qualified to make jokes about the subject.
Posted by Jay at 9:41:00 PM

7 comments:

  1. AnonymousSunday, January 21, 2007 at 2:39:00 AM EST

    Well stated. Thank you. As a visitor here, it is always with a sense of crossing a personal portal to enter and read what you have chosen to post. In some ways it seems similar to being included in a gathering on your porch. For anyone to sit on your porch and try to dictate the rules of conversation is rude. If the porch swing and rocking chairs do not creak melodiously enough for certain visitors, then they should go home. I am among those who enjoy this open and honest place. Creak on and swat any flies that pester.

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  2. AnonymousSunday, January 21, 2007 at 7:40:00 AM EST

    Good for both of you! Jay, I'm so glad you responded as you did.
    Your visitor is a friend you just haven't met yet and seems like a terrific person. People read your blog because you are too.

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  3. AnonymousMonday, January 22, 2007 at 9:27:00 AM EST

    If you can find humor in alcohalism,well then, good for you Jay. It must be hillarious then that alcohal is partly why you are homeless and not working up to your intelectual potential at a good paying job.
    I think you have a lot to offer this world Jay and it saddens me that you realize you are an alcohalic and think it's humorous.
    It somehow doesn't seem fair to a recovering alcohalic who has worked very hard to make a decent life and has fought off demons with resistance.
    For a while I thought we were fighting the same fight.
    Wrong porch.

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  4. AnonymousMonday, January 22, 2007 at 9:41:00 AM EST

    Comments very well spoken, being a child of an alcoholic father my sympathy is with you. It is a disease no different than that of overweight people, you try to make changes and the cycle just circles you. One day you will make up your mind to give it up when you have the power and not by people nagging at you to do so. It took my Dad many years and he reached the point it took and is doing great now.

    You write this blog and many people that do not know you enjoy reading it and have you in their thoughts and prayers so COUNCIL OF LEMURS LIVE ON!!

    Best to you

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  5. AnonymousMonday, January 22, 2007 at 3:03:00 PM EST

    I was praising you for your realization of the harm that alcohol has done and that it is a problem. I think we all have problems of some sort and if we can overcome them and have a sense of humor about everything, life is much more pleasant. I can also understand that someone who is a rccovering alcoholic might not be able to laugh at it. When you admitted that you are an alcoholic, I saw that as self-realization and acceptance of the fact that alcohol and drugs are deadly poison to you. I hope you will not drink or do any harm to yourself, but being able to laugh seems to be healthy.

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  6. AnonymousTuesday, January 23, 2007 at 5:49:00 AM EST

    It must be very weird to have others evaluate you online. If a person is condemned and rejected, what choice do you give him but to find an escape? If we help a person to make the right choices and give loving encouragement, it seems to me that he has a better chance to succeed. The recovered alcoholic could write, perhaps privately, how he overcame his problems and give supportive advice. Family members could help all they can, without enabling destruction.
    Jay, we all care about you and want you to have a happy, productive life.

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  7. BillWednesday, January 24, 2007 at 2:00:00 PM EST

    I very much admire the honesty, and the decency, with which you write. All our lives have complications (mine included) although perhaps not so harsh as your own have obviously proved to be. Recognising there is a problem is essential before one is willing to tackle it; I hope you find the strength to do so. My very best wishes - and continue writing as you do.

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