Death by a hail of bloggers

September 14, 2006 D. H. McKee

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I decided to let my eyes heal a bit, so I haven’t been blogging much. Everything’s going to be a little sore for the next couple of weeks/months.
More importantly though, I’m seriously beginning to rethink the whole blog concept. I’ve been at this for over 5 years now, and am running out of things I want to say to the outside world. Also, there’s been a little negative publicity with blogs recently. Yesterday Kimveer Gill, a 25-year-old Montrealer, walked into Dawson College and started shooting, &agrave la Columbine. While it’s not much of a “blog”, you can see his personal information here. Apparently, he expected to die either “like romeo and juliet or in a hail of gunfire”.
Not that I’m comparing myself to this person, but we both have blogs. Yes, I know … so do millions of other people. But I’m not sure I want to die in a horribly publicized event and have people digging through my blog archives looking for some kind of proof or explanation about why it all happened. Granted, we may not be too dissimilar, as people may go looking into my archives anyway and find that one of my previous goals in life was to take a bullet for someone. That’s pretty close to a “hail of gunfire”. It may be the opposite of what Kimveer Gill was thinking, but the way personal thoughts get taken out of context, especially when posted on online journals, who’s to say?
Here’s an interesting post about Kimveer Gill from (gasp!) another blogger.
For the record, my new goal in life is to live to a ripe old age, sailing around the world in my 42′ catamaran (named “The Turanga Leela”), painting pictures of island women on black velvet, and donating extensively to charity. Let’s see them try to twist that when I’m killed in a murderous rampage.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make is to judge a person solely by what they’ve put on their blog. If reality TV has taught us anything, it’s that people say different things in public than they do in private, and their personal thoughts may never reach either of those two outlets. Lord knows I’ve said things on this blog I’m not proud of, yet there are things I would never publish on here. Certainly, not any kind of personal opinions. Believe me, if I’m mad at you, I’ll tell you straight up (this means you, Enrique, you asshole), not publish it on the web.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.