In my case, it will be a multi-part series.

LOl Cranky..
Happy Holiday Emily!
HUGGGGGGGGGGG

Great idea, Emily, great comment, Cranky!

I only have big ones.

Yet another personal essay in which I cannot participate in. There is nothing little about my moral inconstancies. The only thing consistent about my morality is that it is inconsistent, constantly. R

Oh, this will be both easy and difficult to write about.

Who thinks up these "topics" anyway..... some Soap Opera company?

I don't give a melted fig newton about your - or anybody else's - Hypocrisy, big or tiny. Can we expect to see a bunch of these blogs featured on a new hit TV serial called, "My confessions" or some such?

Bleeeeaaagh and double bleeeeaaagh!!

If 'keeping it light' is the idea, why not try asking for humorous stories about "How I Learned To Change A Flat Tire". For something serious you might try asking for blogs on, "My Plan For World Peace". Lovey-dovey gooey romantic could request tales of, "How I Fell In love With A Chocolate Cake Before It Was Cooked". Economics could be represented by stories of "How I learned To Make Money Writing" ( oh wait, I already have a comedy suggestion).

Anyhow, you get the idea. Heck you might even make it fun by asking folks to post on "The Kind Of Posts That Interest Me The Most", then "Open Calling" for people to write on a bunch of those topics.

Just a thought........
(*‿*)
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(no less mortifying)
I do not understand this need to air every bit of oneself for the whole world to see and dissect
and submit oneself to ridicule and trolling
But maybe this is the layman's confessional box

thanks, but no thanks

Just a question of figuring out which one will make me seem least bad. Loved Cranky's comment.

What's with the "Why I Suck" trend in the Open Call topics lately? This is starting to border on self parody.

Problem with hypocrisy is . . . people rarely see it in their own lives . . .

Rated because well, seriously, I cannot NOT rate the Ed I Tor!! ~tears~ But if you want to see hypocrisy in action, hell, just wander around Open awhile, and you'll see it everyday....~TEARS~ Why not an open call for us cats, THE BEST RODENT YOU EVER CHASED DOWN ---- or THE FIRST TIME YOU PIDDLED ON ED I TOR'S ROSE BUSHES!!

Anti-Cat on here, I tell ya!!!

~wanders off~

I have to admit, I'm with Toby Beth and Vanessa; what IS with these "I Suck" Open Call topics? We're all flawed, but ...what's going on, here?

Why not bring back the "Made" Open Call about stuff we make or have made? I thought that one was cool!

Can we ever talk about a moment when we were generous to someone else?

When we were honest about something tough?

When we did an anonymous good deed?

Still, I have to giggle at Cranky's comment.

good heavens, I don't know where to begin...

WE ARE FISH BOOBS.

WE HAVE BEEN SENT HERE TO YOUR WORTHLESS PLANET TO DECIDE YOUR FATE. WE HAVE MANY QUESTIONS AND SOMEONE TOLD US THAT YOU, EMILY HOLLEMAN, LEADER OF THIS OPEN.SALON WOULD HAVE ANSWERS!

WE HAVE MANY QUESTIONS, DO YOU HAVE MANY ANSWERS?

WHAT IS AN 'EP'? IS IT SOME FROM OF DEADLY DISEASE LIKE SPACE MADNESS WHICH THE ONLY CURE IS TO LOB THE PATIENT INTO DEEP SPACE WHERE THEY WILL IMPLODE?

IF SO, WHY DO YOU KEEP GIVING SO MANY OF THESE DISEASES OUT?

DO YOU ONLY GIVE THEM TO PEOPLE YOU HATE, AS WE DO WITH SPACE MADNESS?

WHAT IS AN 'OPEN CALL'?

IS IT LIKE AN OPEN SORE?

YOU SEEM TO LIKE TO GIVE OUT OPEN CALLS.

ON OUR PLANET, A PERSON WHO GIVES OUT OPEN SORES, IS GIVING SPACE MADNESS AND THROWN INTO DEEP SPACE.

WE ARE INTERESTED IN THIS 'JOAN WALSH' WHO SEEMS TO SMILE OUT FROM HER PICTURE ON MANY BLOGS. IS SHE REALLY 'DARK KHAN' EVIL RULER OF THE PLANET DARKANA NOW DESTROYED BY THE FISH BOOBS AND SHE IS NOW IN HIDING?

IF SO, WE DEMAND HER TURNING OVER TO US SO WE MAY COLLECT THE SPACE BOUNTY OF 278,000,000,000 SPACE CREDITS.

WE ALSO DEMAND THE TURN OVER OF KERRY LAUERMAN, WHO IS KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE NINTH QUAD OF SPACE AS 'GWAR, DESTROYER OF WORLDS' HIS BOUNTY IS 0,000,000,000 SPACE CREDITS BUT WE LIKE TO COMPLETE OUR COLLECTION OF SPACE DICTATORS AND PIRATES OF NINTH QUAD OF SPACE.

THANK YOU,

FISH BOOBS OUT.

Those who see this as a negative or confessional or pandering topic should read Emily's excellent post, which is none of the above. It's about a journey of self-discovery, filled with evocative memories and provocative ideals, with tough choices and honest efforts to find balance inside and out.

I don't see these as calls for shallow baring of dirty secrets but as challenges to our mettle as writers to dig deep and then reveal only as much as necessary to tell a compelling story. Emily did. I can't wait to see how many of us can do the same.

It sounds interesting. I will have to spend more time thinking than I did last time.

About that last comment. That didn't come out right. I just meant that this time I wouldn't post a poem instead of a real blog.

By the way: to Emily: I understand about the wearing leather as a vegetarian. I don't; but when I am at my synagogue I eat their meat. I always feel guilty, but I eat it anyway.

Let me count: big hypocrisy...big...another big one...oh, there's a tiny one. I'll write about you, little fella.

Please ask why ....
...
@ big Salon I have NO comment (letter writing) privileges.

- bebop-o

- GoodCelery!

I am informed.
I can't comment.
No write letters.

How to wear rubber flip-flops after PETA people yelled at me and now I wear NO leather boots.

But, why boot bebop-o and GoodCelery! ...?... They were both Gold Star - No advertisement - Pain in fool. NO correspondence gets any response.

Please ask why ....
...
@ big Salon I have NO comment (letter writing) privileges.

- bebop-o

- GoodCelery!

I am informed.
I can't comment.
No write letters.

How to wear rubber flip-flops after PETA people yelled at me and now I wear NO leather boots.

But, why boot bebop-o and GoodCelery! ...?... They were both Gold Star - No advertisement - Pain in fool. NO correspondence gets any response.
&
Comment NO go?
If no go try 3 X's?

Blogging about my tiny hypocrisies would undo years of clever subterfuge to cover them up.

It isn't hypocrisy if it doesn't harm others. It is cognitive dissonance and personal paradox. All of which are fine if they don't harm others. You are human. Stop stressing.

posted :) I hope it went through successfully. This if my first time doing an Open Call. Happy Reading :)

I submitted my post, "When Do I Stop Boycotting?" but it never came up in the tiny hypocrisy section. Maybe my hypocrisy was not tiny enough?