Saturday

[nightdog_barks]

Very warm, windy. Started reading Born Yesterday -- so far, very good.

In other news:

deekayw Diane Kristine Wild
Comments on my @HartHanson twitter article are either sympathetic, willfully misunderstand, or prove his point. http://bit.ly/mxccWT

Which ... pretty much rules out anyone who might have an honest disagreement with the piece. The article is here, for those who want to read, and concerns Hart Hanson's (the creator of Bones) less-than-positive encounter with the world of Twitter followers.

Comments

[silverjackal]

... Or they're nuts.

Someone does not understand social media, and can't get over the butthurt. Oh certainly the internet is full of crazies, but they're not all out to get Hart Hanson. And if he didn't want a dialogue, then he shouldn't have attempted the matter (but maybe he didn't understand going in that the nature of the beast would be to get more disagreement and/or discussion than gushing).

[nightdog_barks]

This. At one time I followed Hanson on Twitter, and it was interesting to watch as he grew progressively more cranky with the fans. GRANTED, some of those "fans" were batshit crazy and were saying wildly inappropriate things -- and he should have (and probably did) block some of those people. But there are also people who are going to honestly disagree with the way the show is going, and will tell you straight-up they think you're wrong (in sometimes less than complimentary terms), and it gradually became clear that Hanson just didn't want to hear that. He may have wanted a dialogue, but he wanted it on his terms, and he wanted to talk about what he wanted to talk about. And that's not a dialogue.

It's no wonder that Hanson and David Shore feel the need to commiserate with each other.