Who cares?? Friends do.

So I am basically a pariah in my family and with most of my friends. I've moved my blog from my myspace account so that if a family member or friend chooses to read it, it will be at their own risk. I was holding back on myspace. Here? Not so much. I assume I have very few readers and I know that the ones that DO read it are accoustomed to my razor sharp dissertations. Two of my readers are close friends who are very intelligent and disagree with MOST of my political views. I also took the time to right a wrong I believe I am responsible for and made a much needed apology to a fellow blogger with whom I share an interesting back and forth association. I thoroughly enjoy him simply because he's very, very, smart and because he makes me think. I would describe this connection as a love/hate relationship (not to be mistaken for anything freaky) because we alternately clash or agree. I am full well aware that I can learn from him. I have never been very good at accepting criticism, constructive or otherwise but I gravitate towards intelligent people and I'm not too proud to admit I don't understand something and need help or advice. I am going to take a chance and post a comment he made about me and my blog on his blog and hope that he doesn't mind:
Abrasive I am. You, on the other hand, are showing serious potential as a writer. Your prose is tight, lean and without artifice. Your punctuation is sparse, your adjectives are translucent. And really good writers are harder to find than black dahlias. Thank you for that, Bri.
~Matthew S. Mezger (I got permission)
I can't express how much this comment means to me. The only thing that would mean more to me is if it had come from my mom. Unfortunately it didn't and it never will because OUR family get togethers don't include freedom of speech. I accept and understand because I truly don't want to offend or rock the family boat. I just hope that I never make this mistake with my own children and look forward to healthy debates with them and I've promised to teach them bipartisanism when the Republicans have a candidate can compliment with a straight face. For now they are Obamamanics like their mother, they've discovered that it requires courage around here. A LOT of courage.


Tomorrow's blog: Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank... SHUT THE FREAK UP! I am trying to only freak out once a day!