jess

i'm a tiny bit like jess in nick hornby's a long way down. i want an explanation too.

from opinionistas.com(i love her):
'A couple times a week the emails trickle in about comments. Either they politely inquire where the comments section has gone, throwing in some closer like “your blog was far more interesting with the comments” (ahh the beauty of tact), or they lambast me for removing the ability of complete strangers to express their opinions about my writing and personal life, a truly bizarre form of communication that blogging seems to have made commonplace. After almost two months of staying clean and comment-free, I can announce that the comments section officially sleeps with the fishes. It’s true, it was often great reading - every day the entire tragicomic spectrum of the human condition displayed itself across the page. But ultimately it can be a soul-killing thing to confront anonymous readers vomiting their self-loathing and vitriol onto a computer screen, all with you as the chosen target.

It comes down to this: If you want to talk smack, do it on your own blog, or in one of those scary chatrooms likely monitored by federal authorities. My blog is not your forum. And I have neither the time nor the desire to monitor comments all day.'