Snark and self-control

[cellomusette]

trying to stop the snarking, but...
there's just so much of it to go around! I almost can't control myself!
this one here's getting on my nerves because...
and this one here is simply ridiculous, I mean come on, people, can you believe...

there's so much snark, that I become genuinely angry at some points.
rather than write about it in detail even privately, I'm gonna listen to some good music and draw pictures. the distraction method works better than anything else, for me anyway.

it's just unneccessary to go on about how much people suck, instead of doing something I rock at, am I right?

Comments

[bethr.livejournal.com]

Snark creates great works of art. Trust me on this one. Snark, properly harnessed, will take you far, my dear.

[Says SnarkMaiden par excellence. I mean, the stuff I drum up in my head is so horrifyingly snarky I take it in once, like passing a big car wreck, then shake my head and move on.]

PS: When Good Snark Goes Bad

[bethr.livejournal.com]

My BF from 1985-1991 was quite the neurotic one, as I have mentioned in previous posts. And by the end I hated him so much that I sat around thinking of the worst, most personal, insulting, cruel, humiliating, and yet pithy and clever thing I could possibly think of to say to him, something which would bring him to his knees instantly. It took months to think of something adequate to serve him.

And I never got to say it. One exquisite line of derision, gone forever, unless I construct a fictional character just like him and use it against that character.

So, yes. Take your venom and make art of it.

Re: PS: When Good Snark Goes Bad

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

ah, l'esprit d'l'escalier. The spirit of the stairway--the perfect snark, thought of too late as we descend the stairway away from the twit who so deserved to be snarked upon, and hard.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Witness Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde, H.L. Mencken, Mark Twain.
The best gift anyone ever got me was Jon Winokur's The Portable Curmudgeon when I was 22. That's pretty much where my snarkiness came from.

Snark -> art

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

The snarkiness needs to be tamed a bit, sometimes, to make it sufficiently funny and clever for external consumption. (Which explains in part why many of my song ideas are on hold.)

This post made me wish I could reply in my old LJ-user identity as DrSnark. Ah well, it's still my musical appellation.

Re: Snark -> art

[bethr.livejournal.com]

"Emotion recollected in tranquility" and all that.

Yes, I did wonder what happened to drsnark. Mystery solved. And your icon looks quite brilliantly like you...