TKC Blog Spotlight!!! While I'm beloved by all races and ethnic groups in KC, I notice it's only white people who really hate me.



Yesterday Logtar wrote a great blog post about a recent local blogosphere controversy i.e. TKC daring to question middle-class white people.

Logtar's post is much too thoughtful and intelligent for this dump. However, I noticed in the comments that some anony coward called Nick is bragging that he never links TKC . . . As if I needed link from his blog that he can only convince a dozen of his friends to read by constantly going out to lunch with them, commenting on their blogs and, of course, talking trash about TKC.

The premise of this blogger's argument is faulty as well . . . I read his blog sometimes, it doesn't bother me to note as much because only people who don't understand how the Internet works worry about referencing their subject matter.

A search of his blog will confirm that, this coward called Nick who as threatened physical violence against TKC has:

  • Given me a nickname.

  • Written about TKC on more than 3 different occasions in the past 3 months.

  • Spammed his links in my comment section.

  • And even showed up to an event to watch me speak.

  • Like it or not . . . I own a share of mind in Nick's head. I don't need his links. Having him think about TKC when it comes to local blogging is much better. Sorry.

    So . . . Back to Logtar's eloquent words. I wouldn't dare challenge him but I do want to put to rest a horrible myth which claims that "underneath it all" TKC is a nice guy. Nothing could be further from reality.

    The fact is, TKC is horrible and I couldn't care less about the feelings of any public figure, blogger, politico or small animal. And my favorite activity is showing and proving that middle and upper-class white people are wrong.

    Finally . . . Social Penetration Theory (hehe) has an important place in this whole blogging/social media thing because it's based on "examining the dynamics of relational closeness that occurs through a gradual process of self-disclosure" which is pretty much what reading a good blog is all about . . . Learning about someone without actually having to spend real time with them. A tenant of this theory uses the onion metaphor which describes the different layers of personality. With rare exceptions (Logtar, Leigh Ann and maybe a few more of "the good ones") I'm fairly certain that this onion analogy holds up quite well because after tearing away so many layers of local bloggers, Tweeters and other online denizens I'm finally beginning to see that in the vast majority of cases at the center of it all there's simply nothing there . . . In other words, for awhile I allowed the local blogger clique a pass on their tacit bigotry and poseurism but since there are now so many new blogs and networks arising and it's obvious they have bottomed out, there's no need to cut them a break because my silence regarding their stupidity only encourages these half dozen jerks who are only comfortable with minorities as mascots and tokens and can't stand when a person of color brings more to the table than they do . . . Which is obviously the case in this bloggy situation.

    Comments

    1. And here all this time, I thought you were Italian, Antonio!

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    2. Sorry, Tony. You're not alonzo. You're Kansas City's Sarah Palin!

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    3. That was nice of you to say. And I was just joking yesterday in your comments when I said your post made me want to delete my blog and start over. I'd already done it

      :P

      Nyuk nyuk nyuk

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    4. Nick and Radioman are fag partners...both switch so they can both both say, "give it to me ass daddy!!!"

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    5. The blog gathering group is getting pretty played out. That's why me and emawkc started a blog bowling team and have Logtar on as our mascot. We're on some next level shit.

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    6. Lame. All of your moronic and irrelevant bloggers are going to realize that your nothing but candy. History will chew you up and spit you out once the flavor is gone. There will be nothing left to remember. No one will be talking about any of you in 3-5 years. I would suggest you get off the computer and build a life for yourselves. The only reason I look at your blog is because you and I share an appreciation of hot women.

      Regards,

      Gom

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    7. Looks like Nick owns a fair share of your head, T...AND your blog. Har.

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    8. "Looks like Nick owns a fair share of your head, T...AND your blog. Har."

      I'll second that, as well as the comment about Tony being Italian. Tony is as much a "person of color" as my grandma is. (She's German.) Tony would be better to stake his claim to being unique and special on being something he actual is - say, a "person of girth"?

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    9. I just read Logtar's piece and the comments. This Nick guy didn't say a word about links. He simply said he hadn't given you any 'page hits' in a year and a half. Which means he hasn't read this blog in a year and half...

      Then I went to his blog and couldn't find any references to you or your blog. I don't think the guy even knows your alive, Tony.

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    10. "I don't think the guy even knows your alive, Tony."

      Awesome. LOL.

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    11. I hate to say it but Tony is right. I read both Will Not be Televised and TKC. Nick has been calling Tony "lil Antonia" for like a year. I think it's rather funny. Tony obviously does too, or else he's just trolling for attention like he usually does.

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    12. Pretty uninspiring stuff today... I actually came home early...low motivation. Didn't find a single of today's comments in here interesting, the radio room's boring.

      Slow newsday, I guess.

      As to some of those blogging this thread again... well. thinking....

      There's two kinds of bloggers, those of us into self expression and dallying in others conversations... and then those who want to make money and be a local 'playuh' because of what they right.

      I'm the former. Clearly Tony, Hearne and a few others in town want to be big time operators and blogging is cheap if not time consuming.

      Imagine if Tony was smarter. Lord knows, he puts the effort into it... the hours. But he still seems to think quantity is the key to success. I'm not sure, but I do like the service he provides. I don't have to blog around much to see whats up locally. I'm not that interested in local because most of it doesn't' affect me. This metro is too large, too divided in political boundaries. Moreover, ghetto killings might as well be in St Louis because I just don't go over there.

      And jeez, I know my worst trait is verbosity... but TKC actually beats me on running stories into the ground!

      And I do to him what many do to me, skim right over msgs that are too long.

      Luckily when we dont want to read what someone writes, HTML and browsers make it easy to skip stuff.

      Broadcasting isn't that easy. We have to sit through it to see if it gets BETTER!

      But I need to tell ya. The important stuff doens't get on the air or in the paper. People jsut don't want the hassle of dealing with the media pack.

      Like swine flu. There's big stuff goin on locally about that but I don't know anybody who wants to put it out there! I don't. I already know about it.

      So you keep talkin about the Mayor and other insignificant stuff. NP.

      Well hopefully something interesting will develop latuh. I need to go see whats up on MSNBC. rather than worry about watter woes in Sugar Creek or more shootings over near 29th and Topping!

      Has anybody noticed that TKC here plays a lot of petty favorites? that's very small of him, but what else should we expect? He puts his pants on the same way as the rest of us and we can ALL be pretty petty.

      And often are.

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      ya confused me, Leann. You must have been in a hurry. Pronouns aren't so good in a msg room with so many players. I didn't know who you were talking to. Me? Tony, Somebody else?

      Whatever, if you have a great post, stick it in here, so I can click on it. I do it. People think I'm spamming when I do...but I only stick a URL on the ones I think are my better work.

      Too bad so many of us are too afraid to promote the community and what it has to say. I know my counts would be up if I didn't have so many links, inviting poeple to LEAVE my site.

      But I'm not interested in readership as much as I am writing. I already had readership when I was in the mass media. Notoriety in a community isn't really that much of a head trip. You want high hits, and attention, get into the mass media.

      I did it for years. It wasn't about me...it was about where I worked. I didn't deliver my audience...my bosses did. And most people who work for the mass media aren't exceptional writers. They're just exceptionally placed.

      I discovered that I liked who my bosses were able to give me ACCESS TO in the field, than who they gave me access to on the other side of the glass eye.

      I loved being able to call anybody I wanted and my employer's call letters opened doors so I could feed my curiosities. My news years were all about satisfying my CURIOSITY, not exerting INFLUENCE!

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    13. ...because of what they "right."

      Wow

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    14. Note to new bloggers. Watch TKC. He'll fatten you up with platitudes about your blogs and you'll go all giggly about all the hits you get. And, then down the road after finally tire of bowing to him, he'll eat you up like a little piggy that he fattened up for the kill.

      See, his blogger ego needs feeding people, cause that's all he's got..no life, nada, just pics of near nekkid women, racist rants and YOU for dessert.

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    15. we know Nick IRL. whenever anyone mentions TKC, he just laughs.

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    16. JOOLS - good warning. TKC is nasty, vicisous, racist, sexist ass who will smear anyone to get traffic to his pathetic nekkid woman calendar he calles a blog.

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    17. radioman, please go be boring on your own blog.

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    18. man, that Nick guy just gutted Tony over at will not be televised. seriously, Tony's ears are burning.

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    19. LOL, I am a bowling team mascot!

      Well Tony, I am glad you are comfortable with your asswholeness.

      Nick is a pretty nice person, thanks for the hits.

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