by Catherine King
If you don't think Jerome is very gregarious, well, I'm a whole lot less.
I'm not into dialoging, comment threads, and I do not tolerate the anonymous for even one moment. I don't get dazzled by the brilliant wit of nobodies. I won't even listen to anyone without a name. It has always been this way for me with the blogging.
(For example: Back in the days when we were still hooked on art, I'm sure Jerome got tired of my constant whining about how art blogger extraordinaire Franklin Einspruch would seriously entertain the bloviations of monikers such as oldpro, catfish, blah, blah, blah.)
Never for one minute of my blogging experience have I seen my way clear to converse with anonymous cowards. And I never could understand why anybody would give anonymous the time of day. Never have, never will.
So I rarely (never) bother to look at our comments on the Tears of Things. I've noticed that almost all the local yokels prefer to cower in the shadows, balls/ovaries notwithstanding. Ms./Mr. Nobody can bellow all they want. They wouldn't have a chance even if they stepped up to the plate (as did Amy Young).
However Jerome has called my attention to a bit of housekeeping to which I must attend. Once again, I find myself compelled to take out the trash.
Jerome has written before about the value and practical necessity of blogging as a way to manage one's personal profile (see Everybody Blog). Of course, he's right. Anyway, I paid attention, and now I must apply the principle and manage my electronic profile. . .
Some anonymous (of course; SO BORING) nanophoenician is trying to spread the word out there that Catherine King of The Tears of Things is Catherine King the child murderer.
Not so. I am not Catherine King the child murderer. Doesn't fit my personality profile. I was going to tell you more about the Catherine King I am, but I changed my mind. All you need to know is that I'm not the baby killer, but I am the Catherine King who committed radical acts of freedom and self-preservation.
That would be me. I have committed acts of freedom and self-preservation way out of the ordinary, so if you hear such rumors, that would probably be me. The nanophoenician isn't such a good cyberinvestigator, I think.