Tuesday, April 3, 2007

what our readers say

I have decided to dedicate this post to reader feedback. I am always glad to hear back from you guys and decided to post the comments with my take on each. For those of you who read Bill Simmons' column in ESPN Page 2, this should be quite familiar.
Vishnu from Richmond says "come on! the post is not interesting :( who the hell wants to know about the who.." . A very fair and valid point. The Who is probably a speck in the larger scheme of things, but one thing I should point out is that just to be faithful to the blog title, I have to post something about the Who. Also, since I've always wanted more people to experience the Who, this blog presents the perfect chance to publicise this cause without being the asshole who is always making you listen to "his favorite band".
Anand from Oakland writes "gud one abt the who in ur blog. liked it". Thanks Anand for your comments. I will try to follow up with more posts after your encouraging feedback. It is also to be noted that Swaminathan (who calls himself Sam Nathan now) impressed boss and coworkers alike with the best of the Who mp3 collection he copied from me. Just goes to show that the Who can help you build street cred in some quarters.
Harsha from Richmond says "In any case if the number of words in my comments start catching up with the number of words in your blog, you should think of newer and more relevant topics to blog about. I hope you are thinking about some serious writing and not making the comments the big part of your blog.
As for you doing something good, I am waiting to see the funny side of you. It must be really good since you actually feel it could be a great part of you. When will it be that your every day life is comedic enough and for whom will it be comedic?"
There seems to be an urgent need in my readers for my views on "relevant" topics and "comedic" writing. Harsha has no doubt tapped in to the zeitgeist of my readership in insisting that I talk about subjects that are closer to the hearts of my audience. Based on what I know of my friends, who I constantly badger into reading these posts", here is a list of what they'll want me to post about :
1. Porn
2. Something making fun of myself
3. Gossip about self and friends
4. Global warming
I won't post about 1 here, I do 2 anyways and I don't have anything complimentary to start 3. The next post will be "my" controversial views on global warming.

Sudhin from Plano has the last word " So; u too entered this space...". I think that says it all.

1 comment:

Anand said...

This is exactly what we need, a controversial topic jus like the discussions we used to have in 22. Waiting for the controversial topic, I know uve read state of Fear, so have I so we're gonna b in the same side this time hehe..