i_feel_pretty raze got an email today from someone i don't know who checked out my blog. he isn't a fan. but see, there's no mention of anything music-related, when the music i make is what my blog is largely about. the guy's main complaint — his only complaint, it seems — is that my email address, which was little more than an afterthought when i had to come up with a gmail address a decade ago, is an insufferable attempt at being quirky and unique. that and the fact that i write words about things on a personal blog. i was tempted to ask if he gets pissed off when rain falls down instead of up and walking results in movement. i guess the lesson here is, being unique is bad? yeah. i got nothin'. i just wrote back and thanked him. i mean, when someone takes the time to doctor an image on your blog into an insult and then sends you said altered image along with their critique of your email address in an apparent attempt to get under your skin, how can you take it as anything but a compliment? clearly you had a profound impact on their life, otherwise they wouldn't have wasted their time. i'm only sad he hasn't responded to my response. i feel like we could have had something real. 150912 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Hm. That's a dedicated critic. Also a rather silly one, but I guess you can be dedicatedly silly? (Job description: Dedicatedly Silly Troll.) On topic, maybe, I've had people look askance at my email address for including a random period - apparently the punctuation mark makes it harder to spam, which wasn't something I knew when I made it, but it also makes it harder for people to copy down, which is fair enough. 150912 ... raze i never did hear back from this guy again. i feel a little let down. 151022 ... raze it's been two years, so i sent him a short email. "i still think of this interaction fondly. i miss you, dear tim. i hope you know my love for you will always burn with the fire of a thousand glow-in-the-dark condoms slowly melting in a sex toy shop fire." after all, what are trolls for if you can't troll 'em back when they least expect you to? 171007 ... e_o_i That made me laugh. Also, holy crap did I write a long and confusing sentence up above. 171009 ... unhinged hahahaha classic it would be great if he responded about the toxicity of melting glow in the dark condoms 171010 what's it to you? who go blather from