Interrupting My Reading To Post This...

I just read this comment from one of Miss Snark's freakish fanzoids on Jenny Crusie’s blog:

JC, MYOB. It is never a good idea to publicly nail someone else's ass to the wall defending a friend. Not unless it's your intention to walk to the scaffold together. If so, martyrdom is admirable, but in most cases fatal.


Yes, as I recall Miss Snark did invite Miss Stuart for a hanging, but I'm sure Ms Stuart is more than capable of defending herself. And if Miss Snark invites you for a hanging Miss Jennifer, then I'm sure you're just as capable of defending yourself.


Let's stop all the drama queen stuff and get to the heart of the matter.


Publishers are at the top of totem pole. Authors at bottom. There is a certain standard of decent human behavior expected from the author at this level. It's called gratitude.


With all due respect for your work as a published author, you may have climbed the totem pole a bit, but you will always be second to publisher. That means you must subscribed to the same standard of decent human behavior. Again, that's called gratitude.


As long as Publisher is head honcho, he doesn't have to be grateful. Of course, gratitude is always a great quality for anyone to acquire including the publisher, but let's face it, they don't gotta. That puts me, you and the Anne Stuart's of the world in the mustta position.


I'd hate for both of you fine writers to learn that the hard way, and I'd really hate for you both to go down together. But it's possible if neither one of you cultivates the fine art of gratitude as well as learning the fine art of grace, even in the face of getting dissed.


For the commenters, aka ex-snarklings, who just dissed Miss Snark...It's not a good idea to burn a bridge this publicly, 'cos if I recognize you, so will others.

Really, the best thing anybody can do that feels slighted is to keep mouth shut, and remember to be grateful for what you've been given.

This is me burning my bridges publicly, but then again, I’m not an important person in the publishing world, and certainly not as important as that great deity, Miss Snark.

God, I hate sycophantic fuckers who talk out of their arse.

This last comment just about had me laughing my tits off:

For the commenters, aka ex-snarklings, who just dissed Miss Snark...It's not a good idea to burn a bridge this publicly, 'cos if I recognize you, so will others.

What a twat.

So just who the fuck is Miss Snark? Is she some kind of god, or just an ‘agent’ who thinks she’s Dear fucking Deidre?

And if she is this all important person in publishing, then how the fuck does she get the time to blog so damn much? I'm very envious of her time management skills, that's for sure.

Know what I think? I think she’s a writer who couldn’t get published. Even if I’m wrong, we’ll never know, cuz she blogs anonymously.

Right, going back to reading now that that’s off my chest.