N.B. From the Site Administrator

I have, of late, received several reports from outsider bloggers that people who saw their work on this blog have attempted to contact them via e-mail and, inexplicably, instant messaging (IM). Please be advised that very few outsider bloggers have access to e-mail per se. I am certain of the veraciousness of the statement that no outsider bloggers use IM. That an o-bloggers’ artistic medium is the very milieu they so emphatically reject is one of the many fascinating aspects of these Janus-faces harbingers of digital-age alienation.

Attempting to contact outsider bloggers electronically is ill advised for several reasons, not the least of which is that the o-blogger will likely never receive the communiqué. Also, o-bloggers tend to be quite literal minded. Thus, an acronym which would not be a catachresis in the context of Yahoo! Messaging, may be interpreted as one when read by an o-blogger. To an o-blogger, ROTFL brings to mind a disturbing hebephrenic episode, and not the intended meaning of high amusement. IM-speak also might be misinterpreted. For example, one particularly lascivious o-blogger believes LOL stands for “Love On Line” and IMHO stands for, roughly translated, “I am of loose sexual morals”, or, loosly translated, "I am of rough sexual morals"*

With the above nota bene, please continue to enjoy and support Blogging Brut.

*Examples of IMs sent to o-bloggers include: “Your work sucks, IMHO”; “WTF was that?”; “I looked at your post hoping to be ROTFL, but was left only LOL”; and “My DH hates your work *sigh*.”