I've lost a reader and its breaking my fucking heart.

Some people can't admit to being wrong. Steve Pellegrino of MagicRants is one of them.

I responded to his reply on the Vernon issue and now he knows I'm right he uses the approach of "I am not reading blogs by anyone anonymous anymore". Yeah good cop out. I don't mind that he's removed the links to this site from his blogroll and set a new policy that he only links to blogs that aren't anonymous - that's fine, you have to set rules for your site. But to say "I liked what was being written there but now if it's anonymous I won't read it" is just sticking his head in the sand because he knows I have a series of very valid points about the Vernon issue and L&L in general.

Here's what he says about anonymous bloggers...

Is it that important to know who is writing these blogs? Would it make a difference? In the long run, yes it does. Even though your readers don't know who you are initially, over time, and if you're honest about what you write, they will get to know you and understand your perspective.

Over time if I'm honest people will come to know me and my perspective anyway. Just because they can't apply a 'real' first and last name to me makes no difference. MagicCircleJerk remains anonymous but its obvious from his writings what he belives, what he stands for, and I think his regular readers know a lot about him - they just don't know his actual name.

How about I just put the name 'Greg Jackson' in my profile. Would you all be any the wiser? Would knowing (or thinking) that my name was 'Greg' suddenly bring so much more meaning to what I write?

Of course I can solve this for Steve really easily. He doesn't even care if I gave a full name. He links to this blog still : http://in-my-opinion.ca/ and that guy posts only as 'David'. But thank God he does eh? The fact I know he is called David means I know him and his viewpoints so much better doesn't it? So how about I just start signing my posts 'Jason'. Will that help?

So Mr MagicRant - you're not fooling anyone. You're just giving it a bullshit excuse because you know I'm right. I suspect Loius has hushed you because he doesn't want bad publicity and you are so far up his ass that you don't have a choice. You need the work and you know web designers are two a penny these days. You also know what he's capable of - look how he fucked Larry Jennings over.

MW. Jason.