march 11- 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.'