It reads as follows:
Matt-Man,
I have been reading your blog site for a couple of months.
At first I found you to be funny but I have come to find you more offensive than anything else. In fact I find you horribly offensive.
Your Christmas and Kwanzaa posts, and description of “Schmoop’s” menstruation were beyond tasteless.
I guess I am letting you know how I feel because you seem to be a good guy deep down and have quite a bit of talent. I hate to see you waste it on the garbage you write.
A Former Reader,
Nicole
Well, blow me down. I am somewhat confounded by this note because I have no idea who this mystery chick is.
I can see perhaps, that a person that I know, maybe one of my regular commenters taking me to task over something, but…
This is someone with whom I have never interacted or communicated as far as I know.
Oddly enough, I appreciate it. She took the time to tell me, a person who only exists in her world on a blog, what her opinion is of me.
True, she bashed me and my writing, but what the hell, she took the time to do it. And maybe, I’ll give Nicole’s opinion some thought.
Perhaps I am over the top in the offensive department.
I could tone down my satire of religion, leave Schmoop’s plumbing and hot body out of my talks, and be nicer.
But then I think, why should I do that? That just isn’t what I am all about on here. Yeah, I am a nice guy, but do people want me to write fluffy, feel good stories?
I guess one thing Nicole did make me think about was this…
What the hell is my niche in the blogosphere? What exactly do people want to hear from me? Is there a certain topic or part of life I should concentrate on writing about?
Here’s what I think. I talk about Jeebus, war, politics, sex, and a myriad of other things that touch all of our lives oft times in a negative and hurtful way and make them funny.
Many times the topics are incredibly taboo or harsh…such as the latest fight going on between the Palestinians and the Israelis, but…
If I was to discuss the situation and relate it to my frequent masturbatory sessions to pictures of Golda Meir, maybe that would elicit a laugh.
I guess what I am saying is that my niche and my response to Nicole is that we are all bombarded by ugliness everyday.
I take that ugliness (or the mundane), and if only for a brief moment while reading my post, a few people can go beyond the sometime shitty reality of life, and laugh.
If that is what you (Nicole), consider as you say, to be garbage, so be it. It is what I do.
I could write about the cruelties of life and echo what we all know to be sad or painful, but to me, that is easy…
Too easy.
To take those common difficulties that we all share and turn them into a brief, humorous release, is much more difficult.
And why is it that I take the more difficult route with all of this?
Well, because Nicole…I’m Matt-Man, Bitch!!
Cheers!!
If that is what you (Nicole), consider as you say, to be garbage, so be it. It is what I do.
I could write about the cruelties of life and echo what we all know to be sad or painful, but to me, that is easy…
Too easy.
To take those common difficulties that we all share and turn them into a brief, humorous release, is much more difficult.
And why is it that I take the more difficult route with all of this?
Well, because Nicole…I’m Matt-Man, Bitch!!
Cheers!!
