WHAT THE HELL IS A BLOG? WHO THE HELL ARE BLOGGERS, AND WHY AM I EVEN INVOLVED??

Yeah, it’s me, GERRY FULCHER. I decided to try this blog stuff.
I thought I would use my first blog by see if I can’t piss off the other bloggers. Dont worry, down the line I will provide you with the true, word-for-word, person to person, inside facts, about the WDEL thing; including the appropriate descriptive adjectives attached to all parties involved, But, for now, let’s talk blogs and bloggers.

A BLOG IS EQUIVALENT TO A WRITER’S FART. A blog is an offensive “dropping” in the real word of writing. Some bloggers think that they ARE writers. But they aren’t. To be a Writer, you have to survive a series of arduous experiences, and some discouraging setbacks. Just because you know how to work a keyboard, and do fancy computer stuff, you are not automarically a Writer. Check it out…a Writer has to meet the qualifications of having been published in respected publications (including national magazines) and actually have gotten paid for writing. I notice that some local bloggers are calling themselves Writers. With the exception of Celia Cohen and myself, the bloggers that I know in Delaware are people who perhaps “like to write”, or, who may have a “hobby of writing”, and they can even call themselves “wannabe Writers”, but until their work has been judged worthy of national readership attention, and have a check to prove it….they are not WRITERS.

Ok Fulcher, where the hell do you get off calling yourself a Writer? Glad you asked; I’ve been published in, and paid by: TV Guide/ Nation’s Business/ Industry Week/ Delaware Today/ Employee Assistance Magazine/ Human Resources Professional/ Security Management Magazine/ Focus Business Journal/ Barrister Magazine (American Bar Association). Philadelphia Inquirer/ Cleveland Plain Dealer/. I discount several pieces I did back in the eighties for the News Journal, because those cheap bastards don’t pay. I’ve written about employee relations, sports, education, management styles, criminal justice system reform, criminal trial techniques, and of course, gambling. Another absolute requirement for being a Writer, is that when you write for REAL publications (not just for your own computer), you had better be prepared for the dreaded phone call from the magazine’s “FACT CHECKER”. A real Writer has to endure and pass the FACT CHECKER’S barriers before the article hits the street.

If Delaware Bloggers had to undergo a FACT CHECKER like that, there would probably be no Bloggers in this State. But, dont worry there is still hope for you bloggers. For years I’ve been teaching a course for Freelance Writers. “HOW TO BE A REGULARLY PUBLISHED AND PAID FREELANCE WRITER. If you bloggers ask me nicely, I’ll invite you to my next course. Want a good reference?
JOHN KOWALKO took the course. By the way, he is a hell of a writer…better than me; but he refuses to take the time to be a reguarly paid freelance writer.

B R I E F  T I M E O U T……

YOU KNOW THE NAME CHARLES POTTER, RIGHT?

He’s a City Councilman. He’s also the only City politician, who opposes eminent domain. Well, Charlles and his son and two close associates of his have a new business. Charles Potter Jr., Charles Potter III, Greg Collins Sr., Greg Collins Jr. have started a new local service business:

MORTGAGES AND FINANCIAL SERVICES
Property Purchases/ 100% Financing/ No “Doc” Loans/ Stated Income-Assets/ Fixed Adjustable Rates/ Jumbo Loans/ High Debt/ Income Ratio/ Refinances/ Debt Consolidation/ Chapter 13-BuyOuts
They do it ALL. GIVE THEM A CALL. THEIR EXPERIENCE, EXPERTISE AND PERSONAL HANDS-ON APPROACH IS JUST RIGHT. 9 9 5 – 2 1 1 5. THEY GET APPROVALS. 9 9 5 – 2 1 1 5

Back To blogging:
Might as well continue on this track of pissing off Bloggers.
Call me the anti-blogger blogger. Bloggers apparently have become self-appointed gatekeepers of society’s moral values. They take great pride in WATCHING the rest of us, and subjectively reporting on our foibles and moral turpitude..
Ahhh, but who is watching the watchers? Who gets to examine the bloggers’ ability (or lack of same), their experience, their methods of gathering their information, their own hidden agendas for interpreting what they find and how they write it? If they can watch and interpret the rest of us, why can’t I watch and interpret them, right?

This BLOG stuff is really kind of interesting. The word itself is strange, and some of the people who do it are even stranger. One thing is for sure, people who blog are getting way too much respect from blog readers. If these bloggers merely said in a conversation over a cup of coffee, what they write, no one would pay any attention to them…but because they write it somewhere, all of a sudden it’s “important”? I don’t think so. It’s merely thier private iinterpretation of what they saw, heard, guessed, or things told to them by some third party; whom we don’t know.

Perhaps we have better do some fact checking right NOW. I’ve decided to present some possible interpretations of the word BLOG. Let’s see what some of the possibilities are for the meaning.

Maybe the letters B L O G stand for:
Big Losers Offering Guesses/ Bullshit Lines Of Gossip/
Blowhards’ Lamebrain Offensive Gibberish/ Bellocose Liberals Offending Government/ Gerry’s Long Overdue Gallantry/
Take your choice.

Actually, I’m about to suggest that we follow the trend of making nouns into verbs and adjectives. What do you think.
“Go blog yourself”……”You’re a bloggin’ pain the ass”….I’ll knock your bloggin’ head off”….”You are so bloggin’ stupid”…
“Oh yeah, blog you too”….”Get lost mother-blogger”
“Hey, I’m not so sure I even want to be bloggin’ blogger”.

ANOTHER TIME OUT:
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