KarenUhOh

Gold Star Bloathell

For a while now I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a tumblelog called “This Is A Gawker Comment” featuring grabs of the more inane and way-to-miss-the-point,-point-misser ones that get posted.  I don’t have the time, but maybe someone reading this will make it happen?!? Because seriously? The situation has devolved to the point where “LOL” is now an acceptable comment to leave on Gawker.

         —justsayjolie                         

I have resisted, with minimal success, the temptation to go pithbull on Gawker since I don’t play there anymore. The place was always pretty good to me…in particular, my brethren and cistern in the commentariat treated Karen real nice, and a lot of you became actual friends. I knew all along you were decent folks, smart as hell, and willing to take it wherever one wanted to put it. Frankly, my dear, I fell in love with you for it. Besides.

We were all newbies once, we stepped in scared, and every one of us offered up our share of the spectacularly banal. Some of us could never shut off the drivel faucet. Guilty as charged.

So, I tend to want to cut commenters there a break.

Fact remains, though, there was once, at least, the pretense of it being a merit-driven club. Could be we were all just pulling our own Teflon cocks.  But Gawker’s long since became a pain in the patoot, trying to wade through the mold to discover loose nuggets of fool’s gold.

That hoi polloi milkshake (Internet Won, jgh) tasted like Kaopectate going down, and burns like cold chalk coming out.