Thank You’s and a Little Attacking
So…Gilding has been an absentee blog mother. Perhaps she’ll be better soon, but selfish bitch that she is, better can be a relative term ;p Gilding does have to say that, she has recently received some of the best compliments and words of encouragement from some Gilded the Lilies who read this blog even when it wasn’t active. For that she thanks you, Kathy from VA, Megan aka “Megaroo”, and Paul aka “pfunk” (word to yo motha).
And for those who like to bitch about the content on this blog. Gilding puts all the links from which she got her information within the post and at the end of the post (so marked by the hyperlinks, oh yeah, and the indicator words via, source, link(s), and/or related. How ’bout you go looking through those links before you go bitching. Also, its a fucking blog; placing my source links is sufficient, there’s no need for an MLA format. Proper form dictates I make mention and I do. Don’t like it, stop fucking reading. Also, I can only report the information I find. Unfortunately, plenty or blogs and websites get a hold of the information before I ever even conceive of looking for it and don’t credit. I do my best to find the original source but this world wide web is HUGE and sometimes its just not possible to find it. I will duly give credit where credit is due if I know it. But attacking the messenger never wins you anything. But it will piss me the fuck off if you attack. All that is needed is your contact; write me and tell me you’re the original source or the creator, and I will credit you. Attack me…well, I have decided that along with giving due credit I will now also include my fresh opinion of what a dick you are, which I will post for all the readers of the world to see.
This blog is exactly what the idiom that is its title means, a Gilding of the lily. Its a regurgitation of information already out there, interjected with a bit of my own sarcasm every once in a while, but mostly, just a re-posting of the information that’s out there that I summarize and post here because I find it interesting. Every once in a while a post will be entirely personal, such as this one. But my purpose of writing this blog is to share with others out there all the cool shit I find and just it in one single location.
So thank you to all who read this blog and love Gilding. The rest of you, I’ve cursed enough in this post already so it would be unseemly for Gilding to say “Fuck Off”.
Iris said,
August 20, 2010 at 4:31 pm
I miss reading your blog – what happened to you – do you have a new writing project ? Thank you for what you have done so far either way some of your posts were brilliant
wishing you every sucess in your endevours
iris
Gilding said,
August 23, 2010 at 11:20 am
Thank you so much, Iris, for your support of my writing. I have been a bad blog mother, and it has been a combination of things for which I stopped writing. Some of it had to do with other writing projects — I have been writing posts for the Disability Support Services program at Gulf Coast Community College. You can check out that blog at http://www.dssofgccc.wordpress.com. But the major reason I stopped writing was I just got tired of seeing the same ole’ chit on the internet. I dare say, the art world was being less than stellar about putting out new work. Many of my regular favorite artists had put out a few shows — all which had new works that I hated at best, and felt indifference towards at most. And then top that off with readers bitching and moning that I didn’t do enough to credit sources because THEY were too damn lazy to fully read the posts or pay attention to the links I provide to my sources at the end of every post…so I just got tired of the whole damn thing! This very post was in response to that very thing. But of recently, very wonderful readers such as yourself have written to me, encouraging me, beckoning me, and even asking me for info as an authorative figure and for that my heart has warmed a bit. Don’t give up on me. I will make great effort to come back in full force to this blog very soon. Thank you for your support. All my love <3 Gilding