The Reader-Comment That Has Thrown David Into An Existential Crisis

Dear readers, a life spent blogging is a life spent in the open air. Figuratively, at least, because literally it means a lot of time spent in basements and closet offices. They say that sunshine is the greatest disinfectant, but the rays of attention that are at once warming can quickly burn. We, at some level, cannot remain anonymous. You, however, usually can. All this is to say that we will rarely talk about your life decisions but you, often, are party to the choices we make and can be critical of them if you like. It’s the price way pay for your attention, and usually it’s all in good fun.

Sometimes, however, a comment can get under our skin. I hate to admit it, but we read your comments and we can let them pierce our otherwise impenetrable psyches. You would think it would be the harsh critiques or bombastic fuck yous we sometimes find ourselves party to that burn, but you’d be wrong. It’s easy to dismiss someone who is telling you to stick various items uncomfortably in tight spaces.

It’s the concern. It’s the sense that a random person on the internet is worried about you. That is troubling.

Yesterday, David wrote about his i3 yet again and one of our commenters had this to say:

Oh boy. You can imagine how David felt.

I’ve been traveling almost non-stop these last few weeks and so my brain is broken. What I think I meant to say was “Life has to have its balance.” It came out “Life just have its balance.” Anyone who read TMD this morning knows that I haven’t taken my own advice.

Both Jason and I have requested David come East to help us wrench on our various projects, which should hopefully happen this year.

God Bless Gossin.

If anyone deserves a nice car it’s David. That bit about wrenching away his 20s is kinda true, too. I twice visited David in Detroit and practically begged him to move to Los Angeles or NYC or anywhere. He just took this advice in 2023, many years later, and it’s on all of us to make sure David doesn’t backslide too much.

We love to wrench and we’ll continue to wrench but I gotta say, from the backend, building a website feels a lot harder than building a car. Hopefully, we’ll get this site working the way we want it to and then we can get back to more regularly scheduling wrenching. If you want to see David’s response, you can head out to the post.