[Dean's World] Dean: "Obsession"

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Posted by Dean:
"Obsession"
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1161044737.shtml


   One thing that annoys me as a blogger is that I am occasionally
   informed that I or my co-bloggers have an "obsession" with a certain
   subject. Whenever I read that it grates upon me.

   On a very slow day on Dean's World, at least a half-dozen new postings
   appear. On a busy day, 20 new postings would not be odd.

   When American Idol was on, I was a few times accused of being
   "obsessed" with the show. Why? Because I enjoyed it and posted an
   average of 2-3 short articles a week about it: usually one on the
   night of the competition, and one on the night of the results show,
   and maybe an oddball extra now and then during the week.

   Currently, my favorite TV show is [1]Battlestar Galactica. As it
   happens, at the moment, there are exactly four TV shows I watch
   regularly, plus the news channels occasionally. That's it. And 2-3
   days a week I post a thread about my favorite TV series. I actually
   don't watch much TV but I really love this show. I think it's
   genuinely great television: death, sex, war, love, terrorism, lust,
   faith and religion, politics, the military, and pathos on the order of
   the great Greek Tragedies. To me this show has it all.

   I think it's great television, one of the best shows ever to have
   appeared on television. It's not without its flaws but I do love it.

   So I just want to go on record as saying that I resent being told I'm
   "obsessed" with a TV show that I post 2-3 short articles about every
   week, usually during slow times like Friday or Saturday night. This
   out of the average of maybe a dozen articles a day that appear on
   Dean's World on a very broad range of topics and viewpoints.

   If you don't like the show, cool. Although I will say that if you
   haven't even tried to watch it then you're just annoying. If you have
   watched it and decided you don't like it (hi [2]Martin!) that's fine.
   You don't have to be in my "BSG club" if you don't want to be. But if
   you haven't even watched it, then really, who the Hell do you think
   you are?

   Either way, let me and the others who like it have our fun, okay? We
   don't deserve your contempt or your condescension. In your busy life
   you can probably find some way to live with the fact that 2-3 short
   Dean's World articles a week appear about Battlestar Galactica.

   Here's my proposed deal: I won't treat you like an idiot if you don't
   watch the show, if you don't treat me and my friends like idiots for
   liking the show and wanting to talk about it. Fair enough?

   By the way, [3]this is frakking hilarious. Thanks [4]Jerry.

   Update: Best comment of the week goes to [5]Hokie Pundit, who said:

     ANY OF YOU FRACKING PIGS MOVE AND I'LL EXECUTE EVERY LAST
     MOTHERFRACKING ONE OF YOU!!!

   Dude, I'm still laughing.

References

   1. http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/
   2. http://tabletuml.com/
   3. http://www.glarkware.com/securestore/c188252p16758170.2.html
   4. http://www.jerrykindall.com/
   5. http://www.hokiepundit.blogspot.com/