Mutual Understanding: Stay Tuned For a Special Report
There’s troubling news ahead. Quick, hit the jump to find out what it is.
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Mutual Understand is officially cancelled.
That’s right folks, I’m pulling the plug. This is happening for a few reasons. So if you’re interested, I’ll detail those out. If you don’t care, skip to the end.
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- Direction
I had an idea of what I wanted to do with Mutual Understanding, but I think its desired effect and its actual effect were two different things. When I first conceived MU, I just wanted to yell about stuff I hated or disliked. Seeing as 90% of the stuff that isn’t porn on the internet is that, I wanted to shift the idea around. I wanted to try to understand the things I disliked. Well that intention failed and it came off like me yelling like a blowhard. It’s not that I have problem writing about things I hate. It’s just that there seems to be little purpose in it. I really should have put up a disclaimer.
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- Material
I looked over my notes that I had jotted down before starting MU. They were painfully thin. Before I published even one High 5 I had written out and detailed over 40 Top 5 ideas. A lot of them never made it to print, but it was still a large amount of material to work with. As I mentioned in the previous section, I had changed directions with the article. My notes did not reflect that. So I had a long list of topics on subject that I had no interest in changing my mind about.
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- Motivation
I write for fun. Writing for OL is one of the things I look forward to doing each week. Interacting in the comment section is a blast. With that in mind, I was not having fun writing these articles. It’s not that being called all sorts of horrible names bothers me. I actually kind of love it. Same goes for the “discussions” in the comments. It’s the phoniness of presenting myself as being open to liking something when I know there is no chance of it happening.
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So for the next few weeks my typical Wednesday slot will be vacant. Maybe I’ll post reruns of classic TV shows or something. I do have a few ideas bouncing around in the ol’ noggin for a new column, so it shouldn’t be too long before I have you people at mine and each other throats again. Until then, stay tuned.