:: Light me up

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There's not much that lights me up like someone trying to tell me what I can, and cannot, do with what is mine. Many of you are probably familiar with what is going on at Magic Rant at the moment. Steve Pellegrino, the publisher, has done a little "editing" to his blogroll. ( A list of links pointing to other blogs).

Some of his readers are upset that he removed the links to a couple of blogs whose publishers were both anonymous on their blogs and when posting to Steve's blog. Now, there was a little exchange of words going on at the time between Steve and one of the anonymous bloggers over the viability of the Dai Vernon Set currently being offered by L&L Publishing.

Without getting into all the details and re-hashing the situation, which has been more than adequately covered by Magic Rant, I am going to briefly offer my opinion of those who have chosen to call Steve names, insult his employer, degrade his powess as a publisher, and challenge his manhood in general..

Chickenshitz...

That's not the word I was looking for.. but it will have to do. I try to keep things civil. I was in tatical law enforcement for many years, and I thought I had seen, and heard, it all:

Crybabies who start trouble and don't have the gonads to finish what they start. Women who cat-fight. Teenagers who commit crimes and hide behind their parents, who defend their 'little darlings'- until you drag the drugs out of their mattresses. Businessmen who rob the elderly (and not so elderly) out of their life's savings. And every kind of drunk, druggie, hooker, pan handler, pious child molester, and crook our minds can imagine...

And then I got involved in Magic..

I just thought I had seen it all. That's part of the reason why I have my little blog on marketing-related issues and sit in my little corner and mind my business. That is until someone starts attacking what is fundamentally correct.

Steve has a right to do, with his blog, whatever he wants. I have the same right. Others who choose to publish anonymously have that right as well. Too many so called 'magicians' are nothing more than babies looking for a teat.. and they cry like one until someone gives them what they want, or think they deserve.

There's a big difference between being a magician and being a man. One relies on foolery, trickery, and mis-direction. The other relies on honesty, fortitude, responsibility, and respect.

Real men step forward when their name is called, because they're proud of who, and what, they are in the concentric world of magic.

Be Somebody... not Something.