Update: There’s an apology in the comments.
This just in:
Jeremy
I noticed your 50 x 100 x 50 is striking similar and also was started after another blog called 100×50 (lwarnerrose.wordpress.com).
I would like to say it was a coincidence…however in our increasingly interconnected world coincidence is beginning to become a thing of the past…at least in regards to the internet.
Not to make accusations but is this similarity is a bit too similar, isn’t it? Do tell…
Saxon Baird
I’m above the kind of cheap shot that would have me sneer at syntax or grammar. I’m a man of substance, so I addressed the substance, thusly:
Dear Saxon
You’re kidding, right? Either that or all that experimental short fiction has robbed you entirely of your reason.
Your first post — oddly enough number 4, which seems pretty experimental too — is dated 24th April. Neither that, nor your about page, gives any credit to anyone.
My first post, dated 3 March, explains why I am doing this and the people who inspired me, with links no less.
Your use of the internet to root our coincidence could do with a little improvement, I think.
You (and Madeline?) can take your feeble insinuations and look in your mirror. In fact, I’m now wondering what inspired the pair of you.
With all best wishes for your experiment.
Jeremy
Now, dear reader, it’s over to you: what’s your angle on Saxon?
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Here is Saxon’s apology:
Jeremy
First off, I apologize for any misunderstanding or offense that I may have caused in inquiring about your blog. It really does seem like a coincidence! Unfortunately, a mix of poor layout and my ineptness with the Internet caused me to blunder and believe that our blog had actually started before yours. Now, I see that my assumptions were incorrect.
Secondly, our blogs are quite different. Your blog consist of personal musings while ours are rooted in very short “flash” fiction. In addition, we are dedicated to each posting an entry everyday for fifty days. If tags are any indication of which posts should be included under 50x100x50, then it seems you are not so much concerned with posting an entry everyday but rather having accumulated 50 posts within the 50 day mark.
Thirdly, I apologize for the grammatical errors and the syntaxical slip-ups of my email. I am sure that the copy editors over at The Times rejoice when your 500 word book reviews come across their desk with the perfect grammar. Feel free to send this email their way before posting it on your blog.
Fourthly, I do appreciate your brief praise for entry number four which you deemed “pretty experimental too”. However, you were incorrect in calling it our first entry. It was in fact, our fourth.
Fifthly, I do hope that you continue to read our 100×50. After all, many of our entries are attempts at making droll individuals like yourself interesting. Personally, I find your appropriately titled blog very stimulating and I think it might be the inspiration for a future entry.
Finally and once again, my most sincere apologies, Jeremy. Personally speaking, I participated in this experiment to merely improve my craft so that one day, when I am well past the age of 50, I am not forced to write a blog about myself and reviews found in the A&C section of any paper. However, if this is my fate (and realizing that it is quite a possibility), I will be sure to give credit where it is due: to you, the upstanding, “man of substance” Jeremy Cherfas, who sneered at poor grammar and syntax, and had a nice little Flickr account with cute photos too.
Sincerely,
Saxon Baird
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
Wow, that is some impressively passive agression! Perhaps Saxon has a few things to work out with his therapist?
Not to mention with his writing tutor.