Who Wants To Be A Blogger?

This isn't what I was really wanting to post on, but what can you do?

If you haven't read on Quixtar Blog, I've been quoted on a certain blog hosted by an author who calls himself "Qrush" to support his claims that Scott Larsen is gay. Now, I'm not going to go into it becuase it doesn't really matter. If you care that much, you can catch it on QBlog's website.

Here's what I'm going to say: I don't know Qrush and I don't know Scott Larson. I don't appreciate QRush using me in the context that he's used me. If he wanted to cite me and my context to support the point I was making, fine. But I don't appreciate this Michael Moore-esque "reporting," especially from someone who takes a dandy to the association with Rush Limbaugh. I don't read QRush much, but from what I have read, his tactics are entirely out of line from his apparent role model.

Rush doesn't attack gays for their homosexuality.
Rush doesn't use the homosexual card where it is irrelevant (ala: he hates Quixtar because he's gay)
Rush doesn't slam everyone who disagrees with him as being a Liberal bonehead or any other derogatory insult.
Rush is far more clever with his derogatory insults.

I don't know QRush and I don't care to. I don't like Larson but that doesn't mean I'm going to bash him for his sexuality, something I neither know anything about nor find relevant. I'm not going to stand by it, either.

There's absolutely nothing I can do in this situation. Freedom of information and all, I put what I said online and when you say something, the moment you say something it's open to scrutiny of any type. If QRush takes it upon himself to quote or misquote me, that's his perogative. But I would appreciate some since of propriety. If QRush is any sense an honorable man as Rush, he'll acknowledge his mistake and correct it, openly and publicly.

Should he decide not to, you have my case here and ultimately that's all that matters.

And while we're on the topic of clearing things up, things I said before about QuixtarBlog might have been taken in the wrong light. I don't have any ill feelings toward QBlog or his website or its content in any way. Though we don't see eye to eye on several things, I find Q to be one of the most respectable Bloggers I know. He is upfront, honest and professional and I appreciate everything he's done. I wouldn't have known about any of this had he not called me, in the first place.

We have discussed the issue of publishing Marks and while I believe his honesty in his explanation, it didn't explain what the book had anything to do with Quixtar. In all truthfulness, and he knows it, it doesn't matter. It's none of my business and he can put whatever he wants on his Blog. It's his Blog. But my case in point still stands. I still think the book is a dishonest and unfair look at IBO's in Quixtar (if that is what it is) and several items of interest the author had clearly taken liberty into translating to her own convenience despite the possible or downright obvious misleadings. That aside, it makes for good fiction, if the ending wasn't so deplorable. I may go into that later, or I may not. There's still that whole Broadway Show I gotta write.