Comments on: Backwards, Upside-down and Sideways

By: The place I hate (where magic happens)

The place I hate (where magic happens) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:58:52 +0000

[...] (Whee! More contradiction!) [...]

By: Sanford

Sanford — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:21:35 +0000

Love the anti-post! I think our basic truths often lie in our paradoxes.
I am aiming my blog in a “personal development” direction.
But, I find this concept and words connected with it to be so loaded down with crap, that I might prefer to be known,like Kelly, as a marshmallow-roaster.
Sanford´s last blog ..Haiku-esque

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:26:02 +0000

I love the anti-theme. And the idea of it being a string that you can tug. I don’t have to tug it all at once .. very slowly is fine.

What don’t I love about energy work? I don’t love the weirdness of it. Well, not the weirdness of it exactly – I am fond of wacky – but that the weirdness is always presented as if it isn’t wacky and of course I won’t think it is. And that is very hard to get past when you do think it’s wacky, at least in the beginning when you’re trying to decide if this is even something for you at all.

And thank you for the kind words, my dear. Can you see me blushing?
elizabeth´s last blog ..the journey begins

By: Briana

Briana — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:31:45 +0000

Maybe someday soon I’ll stop being surprised by the way you read my mind. Which I have a hard time imagining. Because I totally had this huge brainstorm where I decided I was going to write a series of posts that completely contradicted each other, one right after the other, because I feel two ways about *everything*.

So hard to create the new version of your thing for yourself. Seeing the outsiderness as a gift is so tough, much easier for me to see it for other people. And… thanks for the kind words, my dear. Blush.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:38:50 +0000

@Wulfie Hee hee, no worries I’m not touching that …Oh! and I love what “doesn’t work” almost as much as what you don’t like, awesome angle

@Leah Totally! *smooch*

@Karen Oooh, love “what we like about what we don’t like”– love how everything can be turned over and back on itself again

@Romilly *grin* (*waves hi! to the belly dancing knitter*)

@Bridget Oh I can totally see the anti “woo woo” aspect as hugely important. And how it would be sort of uncomfortable in certain circles.

@ Kelly OMG yes! You are awesome–you’re like the “COPYWRITER” who really and truly cares about the meaning of words, who just doesn’t label things for expediency. I mean, hello! What an integral part of *your thing* as defined and created by Kelly alone. Love.

By: Kelly Parkinson

Kelly Parkinson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:39:21 +0000

I don’t like the word “copywriting.” UUUUGGH–even just typing it piles bricks on my chest. I’m pretty sure I love it since I love everything about doing it. I just hate the word. I hate the expectations associated with the word. I want to call it something else, like yarn-spinning or hiking or marshmallow-roasting. Anything, anything but copywriting. I don’t like knowing that everyone thinks a word means one set of things, but I don’t think of it as meaning those things. So I kind of want my own word. But don’t want people to say, ‘oh, she’s trying to be cute and clever, why doesn’t she just say it?’ Honestly, every one of us should get our own made-up language, and we should all become fluent in each other’s languages. And no one will ever quite know what the other person was actually trying to say–instead of now, when people assume they all understand words the same. That would be fantastic.

By: Bridget

Bridget — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:56:33 +0000

This is a great idea. The idea that it’s a string to be pulled. I feel that way about woo-woo people sometimes. I mean, I’m woo-woo, but there is a lot of woo-woo that just bugs me.
Contradiction is indeed coolness incarnate.

By: Romilly

Romilly — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:41:46 +0000

Wow. What a wonderful idea! Contradiction is fantastic… and figuring out the things we don’t like about our passions, and using them as a diving board?! Just coolness incarnate.

By: Square-Peg Karen

Square-Peg Karen — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:12:51 +0000

Oh yeah! I adore contradiction too. And feel the same way about Jung.

Love the idea of exploring what we dont’ like about what we like – I’ve often talked about the opposite – finding out what we like about what we don’t like.

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:59:06 +0000

ha! i love that your posts have an anti-post. and i love your contradictory goodness. seems like the things we don’t like about the things we like are what make us uniquely us, yes?