mikodragonfly’s blog

... Is that so many of them have that gift of seeming like articulate and perfectly sane - but then you exchange a few words and everything starts to go downhill.

(Don't read this if you have neither the time nor the inclination to read a long and pointless post that was precipitated by Utter Boredom.  Why can't I just go to sleep? - hahahaha)

CASE AND POINT:

I get  a Vox blog because... Vox is pretty to look at.  That was pretty much my only reason.
I add a few people to my neighborhood because... that's just what you do.
I add links to my websites, including my Creative Writing forum because...why not.

Someone who seems like a poet adds me to her neighborhood after I comment on a poem.
I think "Cool.  A poet!"
She joins my writing forum.
I think "Cool.  Poet."

The Standard "Welcome" thread is created:
http://www.escape-ism.com/index.php?topic=1506.0

She posts something in the wrong place - no big deal.  It just gets moved to the right place.  The system generates a friendly message to say "Hey, we moved this to the right place."

Cool right?

I get a message via Vox:

Hi and thanks.. now I have a problem I cannot find my poem the Universe somehow I got an email saying you moved it.. but I have no idea who this happen I'm new at your blog on the poetry.

Can you guide me how toget back my poem The Universe.. and I need help loading my pcitures and sending emails and stuff.. How do i do this..

I got an email from JP saying my poem was moved by you and from there I have no idea..what else..This is my first time and I want to learn how to post my poetry on your site.. can you help me?

No worries:

I send a message with DETAILED instructions for posting and Links to the Individual HOW TO post in the site FAQ's, in case my message doesn't make sense.

Cool Right?

I start getting Emails and Profile Comments and Posts on my forum like this:

I got a email from a person called MIko  . the email expecified that my poem has been moved.
I have a question for you guys? why is it that you are moving my poem so much? is there any problem with my poem? I will like to know what it's going on? and why this is happening?
 please get back at me..ASSp

HI Miko, I wonder why I'm so confused w/ you, I have no idea what I'm doing anymore . I only post one poem and I find out by you sendi ng me an email that you moved it again? what is going on ? I'm new at this site and I do not know how to post my poetry yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please let me know what is that I'm doing wrong and why you keep moving my poem from place to place??

Hmmm.  Okay...

I post a reply:

The person called "Miko" that you are referring to would be me, the Owner of this site.   
I know that at one point, your poem was moved from the Challenges section, because it was posted in the wrong place.  The email that you got was a simple auto-generated notification created by the system.
If your poem seems to have moved again, that would be because, the boards have undergone some restructuring in the past hour.  Several boards and categories have been moved or deleted. I have not posted an announcement yet - as that task is still in progress.
I'm sure that if you haven't noticed that several other boards have also been modified - it's because you are new here.  I any case, I apologize for any confusion caused.  I assure you - no one here has anything against your poem - which is lovely, by the way.

Problem Solved, right?

I GET AN EMAIL:

Lady, thanks for the message but I have never been in a site where it is so annoying and full of rules this is so disturbing and so ugly.
 It is like there is no peace or no free will. how come you are always sending me rules and controls?
dang, is this going to stop ever?
 Thanks for your message but I have no idea what is this about?

I send a Reply (A little bit perplexed and annoyed by now):

It’s fairly obvious to me that you are not very familiar with the workings of forums.  I’ve been a member of quite a number for a great many for quite some time now, so I can say with some degree of confidence that my site has far less rules and restrictions (within reason) than many other forums that I’ve been on.  Now, ignorance I can easily forgive but repeated rudeness is uncalled for and really not something I have a great deal of patience for – even for the sake of being polite.
Frankly for someone who has barely spent any time on the site, interacted with other members, or even bothered to so much as take a look around and figure out how things work before sending me nasty messages... I cannot fathom how you’re the one accusing ME of ugly behavior.
In any case, it really doesn’t matter.  If the workings of escape-ism are not to your liking, I think it would be best if you sought out a site that is.  The internet is a vast and all-accommodating place and I’m sure that such a place exists... a great many of them, most likely.
I wish you all the best in your travels.
Thanks for visiting my site

Okay.  End of Story - right?

I get a VOX private message:

Hello.. I want it to take some time to let you know I got your email and I read it..so you are the founder of this site your poetry site right?
So how come you did not greet me when I sing in  into your blog?  but your other friend did? so i find that very much obtuse,coming from you!
but you started to send me emails like if stoled from you? how come? and why is that you think that I have to bow to you? are you insane? that is no way to treat your fans and also you have no manners.. straight forward I tell you.. I dont have to excuse my manners cause I have some..do you?
 SO take a hike... ok... if you can't treat people like you want to be treat.. learn .. there is time for you. still!
 I do not lose no time on negative people like you.. and this is my honest opinion.. ok,, I'm not mad I find out this ignorance hilarious... yes!
 funny yet?
 adiu.. Miko..LOL

Okay - so I'm pretty annoyed by now and (lolz) I STILL haven't caught on that this person is clearly a troll yet. 

I send this last desperate plea for sanity:

Oh my god... What is the matter with you??
Please stop sending me harassing messages from various places.
I don't even know what you are talking about anymore.
I think before you even consider "approaching" me again - you need to do a little research about how internet FORUMS work... and the concept of the auto generated SYSTEM NOTIFICATION - which by the way, I see you conveniently managed to miss that part of EVERY one of those notification emails that clearly states that each user has the option Log into their Profile and De-activate that option.

My site is not a blog or a personal webpage - it is an INTERNET FORUM - a COMMUNITY.

Besides which - why are you even LYING about something as mundane as this?
EVE RY new member gets a welcome message from ME as shown here in YOURS: http://www.escape-ism.com/index.php?topic=1506.0

NO OTHER FORUM ADMINISTRATOR in the history of ALL the forums I've been in does this.

I don't know if this insanity is the fault of a language barrier or something and frankly, I don't even care anymore.  Your behavior is freaking me out beyond words.  This is my last attempt to get this concept through to you.

At this point the only thing I can think of is to simply ban your account from my site permanently and ask you to NOT EVER, EVER contact me again.
And no - I don't find this  the least bit funny.  In fact, you're pissing me off just a bit.

... and then I get this message:

so? go on and get pissed off.. that is the only thing so far you have showed..
LMFAO... stop your drama...daaaaaang.

And I finally get it.

If you read through this Whole thing and now your laughing your ass off at me, go ahead - you earned it.

As for you Magicrystal - You... WIN?

I don't know what you won or why it was so important to you but CONGRATULATIONS anyway.

Rofl

Read. Rate. Review. Ridicule. Whatever.

(Chap 1-17 so far.  The rest will be posted over the next couple of days)

There's something arresting about the steady ticking of an old fashioned clock, a finite measure of the seconds slipping by.  So much can happen.  A heart slows to a halt and a life-force shifts beyond the reach of this existence.  Rage builds.  Collusion festers.  The universe freezes and the world tilts as a shocking revelation is laid bare.  The most macabre of nightmare springs to life.  A myriad of ideas that defy common sense and transcend the limits of our reality are spawned.

Stories about elevators that took you to the moon and ramjets that when slung fast enough around the sun, traveled billions of years through time; were always the best fodder for my imagination.  There's something magical about the idea of those grinding gears and enormous, unnecessarily complex machines.  Maybe it's the heightened awareness of the improbability of clockwork technology that imbues this unassailable sense of wonder and adventure that some of us never outgrow.

Oddly, I was never familiar with Dr. Who until the new series first began to air. I do remember my mother having mentioned how much she loved the original series. Today, I'm completely hooked and every now and then I get a glimpse of those special stories and concepts that stirred my imagination when I was a child.

Even today, I feel that chill to my skin and my blood hums with the excitement and anticipation every time I encounter something I once only knew to call Clockwork Sci-Fi.  It's not something that we'll leave behind so easily, no matter how technologically advanced humankind becomes.  The genre will persist and linger to fuel our wildest imaginings for a very long time.

Oh by the way, if you're a Trigun fan - I suspect you will agree that nothing screams steampunk like the Gung Ho Guns.

"Lightning"

"Lightning"

If I am struck down,
Let it be
by a thought so magnificent,
It changes the shape and texture
of the universe;

If I am broken,
Let it be
under the weight of the words,
Of a poet, overcome by passion
and madness;

If I change,
Let it be
because I am evolving,
And not because I've been
tread upon or defeated;

If I am to be saved,
Let it be
by that which is in Me;

Let it be
that inchoate song that swells
and strikes my heart like
Lightning.

I made some changes to my personal website:
http://www.tonyamoore.com

I'm rather liking how it's turning out at this point.  There are a few pages that are still not complete but I'm mostly satisfied with the result.  Oh - and look, I made my own banner and I don't completely hate it... yet.

I've moved the blog to the main homepage (Thank goodness for the flexibility of Joomla!)

... and as you can see in my latest raving post - I've developed quite a fondness for Naruto Shippuuden and a certain character that I used to abhor is now near the top of my list of favorite anime characters of all time.  Yayness..

You just wait.

In a few decades, when it finally occurs to some clever scientist - or at the very least, they develop the technology to study the soul's creative drive... they're going to declare that - that which drives creative types; writers, artists and all the rest is actually nothing more than a form psychosis of some sort.

We'll ALL be carted off to the "friendly neighborhood asylum."

You just wait.

There is
a fierceness in me
that terrifies me;

That strengthens me,
and flares into full bloom
when I feel most like
Myself;

It does not beg
It does not bow
It does not bend.