the fine print

so, recently i have been semi- to seriously criticized about some of the content on jenny and i's blog. im not calling out the people who did it or anything like that. i sincerely hope no one feels offended by what i have said or am about to say, or say in the future. i just feel i have to get this off my chest or else thesimplelife will be kinda tainted for me....like salmonella in my spinach or sumthin ickily along those lines.

so, i guess here is a new simplelifecanmore rule: u cant get mad at what we say, so if u think u might, please dont read it. the end. [how wickedly authoritarian of me eh?] the comments have just started a train of thought that i have been thinking...and now i think my thoughts should be shared on the blog so you can read what im thinking, think about it yourself, and then tell me what you thought. wow what a novel concept these blogs are. :)

so, that was alot of thinking. i might have to take a bit of a break. i am, after all, only in Arts.

so, basically the blog was described as "morally repulsive." a term i now gleefully try to work into my everyday conversations as much as possible. i guess the underlying thought was I, (ginny linny) had become morally repulsive because our blog must be an accurate and whole depiction who i am. Now, the goal of this bloggedy is not to debate whether or not i am, in fact, immoral and whatnot. that's a whole 'nother hilarious story that i really hope one day jenny writes a film about. [working title: u hit the rightspot, i said the wrong name?!] the heart of the matter is.....ummm hang on i know this one, truth? no. mediation? no. identity? no. entertainment? maybe....ok, so it looks like i am not sure what the heart of the matter is yet. but im gonna try to ramble on here and see if we can shake out at least a topic sentence or two, at best a thesis.

so, i like our blog. i think it is funny. i think jenny and i are funny. i think the people that read it and comment are funny. Funny, funny, everybody's funny. so when i am 5 hours deep into studying or something equally lame and bored out of my mind, i like to write stuff that makes me laugh...and read stuff that makes me smile. i could see how a random stranger (let's call him Gerald) might read our blog and come to the conclusion that perhaps i am...oh i dunno, kinda riskankulous. and that really isn't sumthing that keeps me up at night. (but i am, however, ok with it keeping Gerald up at night! haha)


so, i share this blog with a selected audience of people i trust, people who hopefully are going to see what i write for what it is; fun and entertaining. so it's kinda a bummer when the people i trust start to question who i am based on what is said here. the fact that i unconsciously just described the people who read this as an "audience" portrays that perhaps we are theoretically "actresses" [which is great, i knew my bedroom skills from my ex-bf would eventually come in handy] The blog format seems to be misleading ppl into thinking that it's a completely accurate depiciton of the truth and who I am.

So, Gerald et. al, please remember it is, after all, a form of media. Fox news is also a form of media and i think we all know that it doesnt always depict reality...so i think that sums up the authenticity of media. Lets just Think about the term "Mediation"...the process of something/one inserting itself between an event and someone percieving that event. It may facilitate that perception but it is always guiding and constraining it. [that, by the way, i remembered from music 103...damn if only all my profs were hot i would be an A++ student] so when we watch TV, read the news, watch a video, or hear a story we are being mediated...sometimes even multimediated...[ok, ok i just made that word up. but i feel i can get away with it cause i've got my "smart hat" on] almost all the info we get now-a-days is at least a little bit distorted. whether it's meant to be or not. anything subjective is well...subjective. and that includes our blog.

so, the moral of the story is....stop taking life so seriously! stop taking me so seriously! so what if i want to write self-deprecating entries about myself? i hope to god i dont wake up one day and realize i have become one of those people who take themselves too seriously. im not saying that what i say i do on this blog is a lie, or the thoughts i have are made up. they are definately not. they are tongue in cheek messages that i write to my simple-life partner Ms. Half-Pint Siddle. i guess the problem some people had is they seem to be a little more "something-else-in cheek." Jenny and i have some pretty ridonkulous conversations and i guess we write our blog the way we like to talk to each other: dirrty & uncensored. (aka honestly & freely?)

so, perhaps my thesis is...that although this blog only conveys one little part of my fantasmical whole, i am not going to apologize for it. and i didnt think i'd have to for anyone that i am aware of reading this so....dont judge me. OK Gerald? or actually do judge me...i welcome any four to five letter words u can come up with. just dont expect me to change for it.
ps. self respect is overrated
pps. sorry that this was kind of a downer. i know most of u could care less and really just read this whole thing in hopes that there would be a picture of a shark or sexy sandy at the end. haha.