Oh I have a major phobia all right. You think I'm going to tell you about it? Hahahahaha. Don't bother trying your snakes on me. Our household pet is a lovely snake. Insects? Insects are beautiful and fascinating. Flying? Heights? Love 'em.
Like you'd ever get it out of me. Y'all out there just keep talking about your deepest darkests. Write your old pal Mo and tell her all about it. I'll just go about my business quietly collecting and storing information. Information that could be useful in the future...
While I fully agree with collecting data on future and current enemies...
I actually think the whole idea is that by proclaiming fear one thinks they are headed in a direction where the fear will be lifted.
Thus even if they hear the bad stuff which will be used against them, they feel that eventually it will end. If you yell out what your problem is people will force you to face it, and some may support you with it...
Posted by: depression blog on December 31, 2003
I was nervous about the scene in Return of the King and thought it would make a funny story. That's pretty much it. I enjoy writing stories about myself where I look semi-ridiculous.
Oh, and I had just finished 1984 - with the torture scene - and it seemed appropriate. I did not think about my enemies - of which I certainly do have a few! I'll know who to call if a random package shows up at my door (although the very thought fills me with horror.)
Posted by: red on December 31, 2003
I used to have a phobia about spiders but I finally figured out what caused it. I still don't like them but I don't have any urge to freak anymore.
I adore snakes. :)
Posted by: Kathy K on December 31, 2003
Fear of fisking? Is that a phobia? My secret, cold-sweat-waking dread is that someone will go through my bloggings and reveal me as a miserable poseur. I get all shaky just thinking about it.
Posted by: Jonathan on December 31, 2003
"Fear of fisking"? We need to get that into the BDSM-I.
Hmm, that acronym doesn't come out just right, does it? I mean Blogger's Diagnostic and Statistcal Manual I. (Same difference, you say?)
I used to have the Miserable Poseur (Poseuse?) phobia, 'til I figgered out that not suffering from that affliction is very rare indeed. I'm still just as consumed with doubt and self-contempt, but it's comforting to know I'm not alone.
Posted by: Moira on January 07, 2004
How utterly absurd. You're an excellent poseur, Dot-Matrix. In fact, were it not for your scent, I'd never have known it was you. You're *so* good at it, you actually became someone else - someone much nicer than you were as a child, by the way. You should be proud of the degree to which you've grown into the pose, transmuting mask to flesh of face, and pose to position of productive posture, you should forgive the excessive alliteration.
Posted by: John Iceknife on January 13, 2004