To the delightful Nicholas Vosalalalblah. Person, thing.

Disclaimer: This post is solely the intellectually deficient opinion of Steph/Tank.S, and in no way reflects on her A1 blog buddies, class and or teacher.

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My post today bears little or no importance to the world or our lives in general. However since I have very little to write on (due to my less than exhilarating life), and I MUST post an entry by tomorrow, I suppose I shall have to make do with the topic or a person that per say, antagonizes (almost) all current A1/2 bloggers.

Nicholas Vosanovic.

Nicholas Vosanovic, for those who have not been paying attention to this blog's, WWJD, etc.'s comments, he is a person, an anonymous person with no blog under his belt, who blocks his profile and who needlessly complains and criticizes everyone’s blog entry.

I’ll give you all several excerpts. (Trust me, there are a lot to choose from)

Nicholas Vosanovic said... (on Dante’s recent blog entry)

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Considering the fact that your style is meager, your writing feels forced and suffocating to read, your words are not even contextually correct, and your grammar is like that of a child, I am quite sure that you picked these words from a thesaurus and will probably forget what they mean in a couple of hours or days.

I mean, just take a look at what you're writing. Your style is very casual and unstylish yet you use such uncasual words. It makes me feels constipated.
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Using your thesaurus, you are attempting to glorify yourself and cover up your insecurities about how bad a writer you are. Since NONE of these words in your first paragraph are even used correctly, it makes it look even more obvious that you are using a thesaurus and that you are doing so very ineptly.

Thus you are making a complete fool out of yourself.

September 9, 2007 10:58 PM

(Still on Dante’s blog)

… So if you insist on practicing your english and using these words that you don't deserve to use, write in a diary or something. Don't embarrass yourself.

September 10, 2007 8:00 PM

Nicholas Vosanovic said... (on Cynix’s blog entry)

you are repeating the same ending as the one you had for your previous post.

don't you have any new ideas?

by the way I don't think its true that technology is causing people to become socially incapable.

maybe you're just socially retarded and you're blaming it on technology because you have noone else to blame.

September 11, 2007 7:54 PM

Nich V. again on Cynix's gay blog entry.

Nicholas Vosanovic said...

why are you so self-righteous and acting like you know everything about morality?

who are you to say that homosexuals don't choose to be gay? they're so perverted that for sure, they had to make decisions to become so sick.

and you are very passionate in this writing. are you homosexual?"

Alright, honestly, while our dear Nicholas is not always wrong, is it really necessary for him to stalk A1/2 blogs 24/7 for grammar mistakes and errors?

Granted, cynix is often times overly self righteous, and all of us don't have the perfect English he insinuates he has, still, Nicholas honey, whoever you are, you must be a very, very, VERY sad person. Do you honestly find pleasure in criticizing others? This is an ENGLISH CLASS blog, which is meant to be an outlet for people to improve their, wait for it, WRITING SKILLS. Sure, correct our grammar if you so desire, but those malicious comments?

Don’t get me wrong, I adore web fights, it is fun, but you are doing so anonymously and without having a blog yourself. You mock us so indiscriminately whilst shrouding yourself under the anonymity that is the World Wide Web.

If you are so grand, please DO enlighten us of your writing prowess, Nicholas Vosanovic! Do you really have enough gravitas to claim superiority over us all in content, style and grammar?

I know, my blog entry is at the moment sub-par, but unlike Nicholas I actually have tests to study for, essays to write! Why are you so intent on shattering our already brittle shards of self-confidence?

Do you (and in certain cases I) derive instant self glorification from it? A smug sense of superiority? Just as you said to Dante, “Using your thesaurus, you are attempting to glorify yourself and cover up your insecurities about how bad a writer you are.”

Aren’t you doing the exact same thing? You said it yourself; you are using your superior grammar knowledge to glorify yourself!

Yes, we may indeed suck, but what are we, 16, 17? We have more essays to write, grammar mistakes to pen, horrid sentences to articulate, but unlike you we don’t hide behind the system of anonymous commenting.

We type our pieces, hoping that our effort will be rewarded by a kind comment, but what do we get? You, Nicholas dear, stamping whatever satisfaction we had five minutes prior. (Yes, 5 minutes people, Cynix posted at around 7 PM then Nicholas posted at around 7 PM)

You see Nicholas, whoever you are; I commend your love of English and your particularity on word usage. But when that love of English turns to hate and that once beautiful love turns to glaringly spiteful comments, (which probably made someone cry *cough* cynix *cough*)I really think you should take another leisurely pursuit.

Like making your own blog. Enlighten from of our dreary simpleton-esque mistakes; enlighten us all to what blogging is really like. And you know, use that obviously superior talent of yours to actually, I don’t know, WRITE?

What is it with people and their ‘smug sense of superiority’ anyhow? Why do we try endlessly and ridiculously hard to hail ourselves superior to another person verbally and mentally? (Or is that just me and dear Nick?)

Is it because we try to compensate our short comings by scoff at another’s even shorter short comings?

Is it because we simply don't want to become ordinary and therefore boring. The thing is, if everyone is superior in someway, and if everyone is special in their own way, then isn't everyone basically and drearily bland and un-special?

Why are we all so terribly afraid of being ordinary, at being seen inferior, of being seen useless, weak and pathetic to the extent that highlight other’s weakness solely to hide our own from others and even unconsciously from ourselves as well?

Succinctly said, I have no idea.

Maybe, Nicholas does.

Van Wyck Brooks once said, "People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."

Is that true for you Nick?

Much love, Steph.

P.S. : Please DO engage me in a comment fight Nicholas V.!

I pinky promise you that I shall copy paste your comment onto this post! :)