blog envy99 years ago almost to the day, Sigmund Freud pissed off a lot of women with what we now know is pure bunk -- the theory of penis envy. Let's face it, for one thing, transgender stats just don't support Siggie's claim. More individuals who were assigned male genders at birth feel they were incorrectly pegged (pun intended) than the other way around. Ez is totally uncomfortable with the whole issue of gender, to tell you the truth. Could it be because he was abused by a troupe of brutish, semi-bearded nuns through 6th grade? Talk about gender problems. Why would you starch your underwear if you felt all that cozy in your own skin?
No, that's not Ez's problem. He has a bad case of blog envy. It's confession time. Let's put our cards out on the table.
Why should a 14 year old still struggling with pimples, someone who wears braces and can't be detached from her cell phone or iPod have a better blog site than Ez? That's a rhetorical question because Ez doesn't have a particular 14 year old in mind: he just knows that every 14 year old on the planet owns a blog that has more bells and whistles , more tags, more links, more facebooks, more graphics, than Ithaca Sucks. Hell, Ez doesn't even have video! Talk about hooking up with U Tube, most of the time Ez feels he's going down the tubes.
Does the pathetic state of Ez's blog say something about his prospects for long term survival in an accelerating technological age? Who ever told Ez that he had to learn HTML, XML or Linux by the time he was 12? At the age of 12, for christsakes, Ez believed he was destined for a career in vaudeville. What's this about being a web designer? How is Ez going to deal with the fact that he lacks vital skills, can't design web graphics, can't write scripts, and definitely doesn't know what an angle bracelet is . Maybe he should go out to Eugene and hook up with John Zerzan and the anti-civilization forces? Ez Kidder, primitivist, big hunter gatherer, me make fire now.
The truth is, just like people used to talk about a missile gap, Ez is experiencing a blog gap. Any self-respecting blog that can be googled by typing Ithaca in the search engine has more features than Ithaca Sucks. IthacaSucks sucks!
Ez is pleased, however, to acknowledge that other bloggers mention his name from time to time, or even link up. Sometimes, however, he wishes they'd give him a few pointers.
Comments invited at: ezrakidder@gmail.com - Peace, Ezra at 8:30 AM
