Eavesdropping is bad, mkay? However, if you are having a loud conversation on your cell phone, and I happen to be standing in your vicinity, and I just happen to overhear everything you’re saying, it’s not my fault.
Best. Overheard. Conversation. Ever.
I listened to the breakup of a marriage. There were many “UH UHHH!’s” and “OH NO you di’int SAY that!” Highlights of the conversation:
“Oh I’m not sweatin’ you. Oh I’m NOT sweatin’ you. I am NOT sweatin’ you!”
“Well MAYBE it’s because the night before our wedding, YOU were talkin’ to another woman!”
“Well MAYBE it’s because you told me that you couldn’t promise that you wouldn’t ever cheat on me!”
“The way you talk to me is just DISRESPECTFUL!”
“Listen, I am HOT, OK? I am gorgeous. EVERY GUY I meet wants to get with me, OK? EVERY GUY”
“Maybe we should just end this thing. I do NOT want to deal with this anymore”
awesome. It was hard for me to feel bad for her, because after overhearing a mere 5 minutes of conversation, it was pretty obvious that there were enough red flags before they got married for both of them to know better.
Published Saturday, March 3, 2007 in blogging.
Hypothetically, I believe I am in the clear.
Not so hypothetically, I will just say that I was interviewed about my blog, or rather, one post in my blog (no, not the one about the buttsecks). My name, along with other people who were interviewed were mentioned and quoted in this article, which ran in a rather popular periodical. However, the journalist did not include my blog address. So while a google search of my name may soon pop up this article, the reader will still be left wondering where my mysterious blog is.
I am of mixed emotions about this. On the one hand…*whew!* family involvement dodged. On the other hand…hmmm…all that free publicity…gone…
There goes my book deal 
Thanks for all your advice, though. It will be taken into consideration should my blog suddenly skyrocket in popularity. You know, as the “infamous spooge blog.”
what? oh. no. I’m not telling you which periodical. Or giving you the link. Because it has my real name in it, silly! I don’t want you nutjobs looking me up, asking for money and bumming lube.
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hehehehe…I said “bumming lube.”
Say you have a blog, and while it’s a public blog, you’ve never really mentioned anything about it to your family, because you write about very personal things, as well as naughty adult type stuff.
Now say that your blog is about to go public in a slightly bigger way, let’s say for example, a link on a much more popular blog, or maybe a mention in a widely circulated periodical. Let’s also say that this link or mention will also use your real name.
You know for certain that your family does not read said popular blog or widely circulated periodical, however, you cannot be certain that their friends don’t…though it seems unlikely. Still, there is always a chance.
Do you: come clean to your family in advance, so that they don’t hear about your blog “on the streets?”
or do you: keep quiet and hope maybe no one will notice?
This is allll purely hypothetical, of course.
