Well, dear readers, you won’t believe it – I could barely believe it myself and yet it is true. I told you yesterday that the interview I did with our very own Mr. Craig Brockman over at www.broadwayworld.com had caused the owner of a popular chat board to post some really nasty comments – nasty in a very personal way. Now, those who read the comment thought it was a little over-the-top, a little too much, but the comment stayed, and our very own Craig Brockman went in and posted a very thoughtful response. Then someone came in and posted the exact same kind of nasty personal type of comment but this time directed at the owner of the board – there was nothing different in the tenor of his post (or even the alto and soprano of his post) it just basically gave the guy back a little of his own medicine. Well, guess what? The entire thread magically disappeared. Why? Well, I’ll tell you why, dear readers, because why should I not tell you why once I have asked why? It disappeared because these people can dish it out but they cannot take it. The comment that caused the removal of the thread was made by one of their regular posters – not someone I know. I’m sure their reasoning would be well it was getting personal and that’s against their terms of service. Hogwash. If that was the case, then they should have taken down the thread the minute the owner made his rather nasty and personal comments about the interview. And it is indicative of everything that goes on there. If people on that board, as they’ve been known to do, write bitchy scathing and hurtful comments about actors or shows or whatever, when they are criticized for it publicly they cry out like stuck pigs and say things like it was just my opinion and I have the right to make it, I have the right to trash a show mercilessly after seeing the first preview, blah, blah, blah. Okay, so you have the right. Then others have the right to come on and criticize you and, if they so choose, to call you a creep for doing it, because that is their opinion and they have the right to express it. The amusing thing about all this was that just a few days before the very same owner of that board was crowing about how they have no censorship. Oh? It’s okay to have censorship and to remove threads because they suddenly are negative about the owner and the site, but don’t crow about how there is no censorship when there most obviously is.
I myself have removed a post here once, which I felt was just nasty for nasty’s sake, and the fact is I was criticized for doing it and I responded that I wouldn’t allow nasty posts or hurtful posts that may have caused grief for a dear reader. In other words, I stated my point of view. Since that time, I have not removed any posts ever, because even when uncouth interlopers showed up and tried to cause problems, we all just dealt with it in our own way and eventually it all calmed down and was fine.
In any case, I was not upset by the removal of the thread, but I was amused by it because it is so typical. It seems one simply cannot take on the Internet and these types of people – they just can’t take the criticism but, as I said earlier, those who can dish it should be able to take it.
This Thursday and Friday I’ll be recording two more vocals for our new CD – the delicious Sharon McNight on Thursday and the delectable Tami Tappan on Friday. Then the following Wednesday we’ll record Jason Graae, Michelle Nicastro and Katherine Helmond and we’ll be done, done, done (that is three dones, which might be overdone). Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below before I remove the entire first part of these notes because I’ve decided I may not like the tenor, alto or soprano of them.
All that talk of fast food made me so hungry that I went out last night and got onion rings and a salad at Jack-in-the-box. The onion rings were, as always, delicious, but it was the salad that surprised me. They have three new au courant salads and I got the chicken club and it was great. I’ll be having another one today. It had chicken, bacon, cheese, tomatoes and cucumbers, seemed very fresh and their bacon ranch dressing was quite yummy. However, I didn’t see any club in the salad and if they’re going to call it a chicken club they should really include the club, don’t you think?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must do errands and make calls and write and whatnot. I must try to catch up on my CD listening and my DVD watching, not necessarily in that order. Today’s topic of discussion: Who were your favorite classic early rock-and-roll singers, and what were your favorite songs that they sang? Those who’ve read my books know my choices, but I’ll name a couple anyway – Ricky Nelson (Poor Little Fool), Bobby Darin (Splish-Splash), The Platters (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes), Fats Domino (Blueberry Hill), Tab Hunter (Young Love), Tommy Edwards (It’s all in the Game), and on and on. Your turn. And if you feel like it, we can, of course, have a fashion call and a food call as well. Post away, my pretties, and I’ll check back often.