Dec 28 2006
Rita Verdonk (Part II)
First of all let me say how happy I was to see my last article on Rita Verdonk translated into Arabic by Google.
I have no idea who requested that translation, but it really brought a smile to my face. Blogging is fun, isn’t it? Once in a while you get to throw back some of the dirt being thrown at you by conventional media.
That Verdonk woman really turns my stomach whenever I switch on my TV, so Photoshopping that little poster — now all over the web — was a nice and creative way to avoid blood circulation problems. That is what blogging is about.
A few weeks ago I read yet another newsletter telling us that blogging is all about ego. I agree. Is that a bad thing? I have no judgment. Since I am not sending out e-mails to lure people into reading my blog, I think I am fine. For a moment there I was irritated, which usually means that the person addressing me has a good point. So accepting that fact I decided to make a list of people in the past who had done me harm in one way or another. It was a short list, but the names on it were impressive. Names that would really draw some search engine traffic. Now, that would really lift my blog out of the egosphere, wouldn’t it?
I even typed one entry, posted it and deleted it seconds later. Listing the crimes of one’s enemies is as personal as a choice of underwear. I have done that once in the past by writing a novel about my work for an American/Dutch company. In one of the more harmless scenes of the book I described a lawyer, known to represent the top of Dutch Captains of Industry, while eating bananas out of a prostitute’s vagina, and three weeks ago that particular scene was quoted in a large article about corporate swindle in the Netherlands. The poor, poor man. 15 years after the fact he is still being chased by that anecdote.
No, I will stay in the egosphere for a while.