R.S.V.P. - I bloody dare you.
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Okay I am a little officially pi**ed off now - this blog is getting harder and harder to devote any time to, and I see that I'm not exactly alone in thinking this, judging by the paucity of my fellow blogger's input lately. I get where you're coming from guys; for what do we bother contributing anything?
Does anyone else out there in Interwebland remember in the film Die Hard, just after the sleazy sales guy called Ellis gets one between the eyes from Hans Gruber (Mmmmm, H&K P7 goodness... 
), and the cops outside the building are blaming Mclane for the execution even though it just wasn't him, the idiot cop in charge mouths off and tells everyone that Mclane "..just let him die man, thats like pulling the trigger yourself.."
And Mclane says it best, when Al Powell (that big black cop who's down on the ground outside? Played by Reginald Veljohnson? How the hell can you forget a name like `Reginald Veljohnson`??? dude probably has a queue of women from here to Alaska with a name like that) asks Mclane how he's feeling.
To which the sage Mclane replies:
"Pretty f***ing unappreciated, Al."
Thats me, that is.
(Metaphorically) covered in bloodstains (well, I've got a touch of tendonitis) from the allegorical shards of glass over which I have walked (i.e. I've busted a gut at times just to write this thing and spent quite some time checking and editing and redrafting) and I sit here, hovering in the `post new entry` page like a bird of prey awaiting the first twitching sign of a good idea on which to swoop, and suddenly it dawns on me - I can complain about the lack of feedback and appreciation, derision, critique, adoration and amusement that I, or indeed any of us here are actually getting! (I know, I did this once before. I'm feeling more eloquent this time )
Not the most socially correct thing to say I know, but while I don't want to hear false praise I bloody well do want to hear from you if you think I should shut up!
I could ask you to inspire us, I could ask you to ask US something for a change - after all its bloody obvious isn't it; the only people who have signed up to keep ranting to the world on a continual basis can only be over-opinionated egomaniacs - like myself - so it seems to make sense to take advantage of that and get the lowdown on your favourite topics from people who would be only too happy to give it.
But its not as easy as that is it? If we start asking for things then it'll all be terribly tragic if we fail to get anything: what a total confirmation of failure eh??! And you, the audience, what if you start asking and suggesting things but then the ideas run dry; you've found yourself with a commitment and an obligation, and no-one wants too many obligations now, do they?
So what about us? Are we not all obliged, having started this series of serried rants, to keep things going as they have been so far; to continue to entertain if at all we can? Well kinda, yeah.
And its kinda cool, too.
I think I can safely speak for all of us when I say that we have started on this little escapade of `show & tell the world` because we reckon that we have something to say. Well, everyone has something to say, but we reckon our something is gonna a little bit more worthwhile than many other people's somethings, and seeing as we are having a go at proving that I reckon its fair enough to indulge us a little. Isn't it? Just to see what c**p we'll come out with next? Ain't it? Yeah 'course it is, and you know you wanna hear what's coming next...
..which is that I think we're making a contribution to the quality of the site and to the worldviews of everyone who chooses to tune in, for better or worse, and I imagine that we're also all learning as we go along, too.
I could hardly hold a pen to write more than a couple of short pages (thanks to tendonitis) a year ago but now I realise that all I needed was the ability to issue forth 1000 words at a time and I was capable of true brilliance in the art of ranting nonsensically about matters which are of no concern nor real importance to anyone!! Amazing, eh? 
In truth I've got a lot out of writing this, and I enjoy it a lot: but without the opinions of you lot out there its all so much ego-stroking literary masturbation because it is all meaningless without a reciprocative audience.
This is media. Watch us perform. And get back to us somewhen soon, d'ya hear?
So what do I want? A little love people, just a little love.
Or hate.
Either way it shows you're listening 
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N.B. I've done a quick copy-&-paste of my entire blog into an MS Word document, and I've spewed out over 22,500 words for your digestion and entertainment, which to me, the guy who failed college and was ejected from 2 schools*, seems like rather a lot, and is something of a little achievement and I don't mind saying so myself.
*The schools had a fair point, but the college was just blowing smoke in asking me to leave. Politics was afoot I'm afraid to say and I ingloriously lost out; I wondered if that was how the Liberal Democrat party felt come the general election
To be fair though the college was the only one where academia and the level of study (non-existant in my case) had any part to play in my removal
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