Stacey Youdin

Stacey Youdin
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West Central Mountains, New Mexico,
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July 03
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Diverse interests - random posts.

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JANUARY 23, 2011 6:56PM

Our Online Selves - Just Be the Cream What Rises

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You hit "publish."

It's gone.

Your options are that you may: milk it, tweak it, hype it, flounce about it, whore it with unsolicited personal messages, exchange faux lovey-doveys for its sake, bump it, trumpet, hump it, pull it, revise it, update it, close comments on it, use trademarked verb forms about it, constituting infringements I don't care to test in court, in these impoverished times, and so on ad nauseum/infinitum (either one applies).

Wait. I forgot. There's one more:  let it stand on its own.

 

This site, not unlike the entire Internet space, evinces an imagination's load of raisons d'être.

 

I deployed the term "evinces" as one does the $17.50 cover at the blues club.

No winos, please.

(What? Too soon after Ricky Gervais?)

I'm as guilty as the rest for trying to create "content" which has to pass muster before there's any thought of it going on to "evince."

All I know is I have used my name online for a bunch of years.

You might have to search one of those "we remember everything" sites to catch my earlier, yet substantially similar work.

 

Posting some tunes in my links column has been like "standing naked at the post office," a favorite metaphor.

The whole draw of "social net not working" sites is that one may, truth be told, perform.

Hello, bulabula453, you're on with Piers Morgan.

(I don't know which one is the exemplar there.)

 

I acknowledge and borderline affirm the blog post as a performance.

I know a thing or two about that.

Every performance needs to be the cream what rises. Wherever, whatever.

The pickin'? Not your concern.

 

No sirree; it's gone.

You hit "publish."

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Stacey, your opening line: "You hit "publish."" reminded me of how many times I have hit that famous button and then had to do more editing because I spotted something that I missed prior to that. Imagine an OS world with no editing capability for one's posts--yikes!
I find that standing naked at the Fed Ex drop off center gets faster results.
Thanks jops. You've said the magic woid.

Hey Robin. Bowing is not necessary. But your sentiment has found its target. xox

d - You are so right on.
John - thanks for your wit.
I like the sentiment behind this post. All creative endeavours reach the "let it go into the universe" phase and once it's out there, well, it crawls, walks or runs.
My best editing always comes after I hit the publish button. Still then, I miss stuff. It's embarrassing!
"I acknowledge and borderline affirm the blog post as a performance."

Most definitely! And yet, though I've stepped out in front of those footlights dozens of times, I still usually get the butterflies right before hitting that "publish" button.
Well done, also the linked post, very nice photos.
emma 2 - so nice of you to add your comment. I love the word sentiment.

tr ig - my fingers are continually crossed that it still resonates with me in the sober light of another day.

nanat - what intrigues me about the social networking phenomenon is that it requires a disciplined restraint from surrendering too much personal information. By definition, one's Facebook page is a performance. I enjoy the attempt at blogging; I spend hours prepping a piece. But man do I know those butterflies. Thanks.

rita - I'm glad to hear that. Thank you for your nice comment.
I'm just glad there is an "Edit Post" function at our disposal!
Phew!! I thought I was the only one lacking the confidence of "letting it go" once I hit the Publish button. It was a bad habit with my weekly column as well. I just can't leave it alone. I go back to correctly spell a word or punctuate properly and more comes out on the subject. I hit publish again and find a typo in that and we go again! I do thank God for the edit option. I didn't know there might not be one somewhere. Now if I could just edit comments, I'd be home free. Great post Satcey!
PV - I hear you. There was a tremendous kerfuffle over the "delete comment" feature when it was added because it can make later responses seem incoherent. I can't imagine an edit for comments. That would really be Brave New World.
I am just letting you know that I am stealing this:

"Every performance needs to be the cream what rises. Wherever, whatever. "

Well done, well done.
That phrase wasn't plagiarized, was it? I would hate to chain-plagiarize.
Usurp away pirate Zuma. No chains here.
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