I’m recovering from this dread disease, but it’s not going as quickly as I’d like. I’ve had to get a second round of antibiotics. I knew this would happen. It came about the other day when it felt as though someone were stabbing me in the ear with a knitting needle every time I blew my nose. I’m beginning to more and more slowly improve, tho. But I’m still spending a lot of time on my computer.
I’ve discovered that there are a LOT of bloggers out there. “No, DUH!” you say. I know. Or I should have known. I did know in the back of my mind. But I’ve been finding them. There are lots and lots and lots of blogrrs. Some of them are really, really good. Most of them are not. But here is a nearly universal discovery I’ve made. Through blogging we (the collective “we”) have come to a place where we can now curse in print and “get away with it.” It can be printed in decent society and no one will bat an eyelash. Here’s how it’s done. People write it like this: WTF, or wtf. I’ve seen it done in some very respectible places now. I’ve even seen this: WTFWJD (think WWJD and you’ll get it). And of course, that left me howling with laughter.
I’m not sure what to think about this. Print media seemed to be the last bastion where profanity was only used in “certain” appropriate conversations in novels. And you knew when you were going to come across them. Now I think it’s going to surprise us everywhere. Not, as most of you know, that I have a particularly clean mouth. But I just wonder how this will change us. Where will this take us? I’m not sure it’s a good thing.