Retuning the Stereo

While Greensboro bloggers had two different meetings going on last night, we here at SiS had a meeting of our own. (That’s right! Al finally paid the telephone company and got himself reconnected!) I think our longest discussion we’ve ever had about the blog before last night clocked in at ten minutes. But I was persistent, pressuring him with lines like “Hey man, we’re the Big Link the week!” and “We promised developments!” Whether he just became frustrated with me foiling his every attempt to change the subject or not, Mr. Redman finally acquiesced and dropped a bomb on me that has probably been building for the nine months this blog has been running.

Al doesn’t like the majority of my posts.

Yeah, I totally didn’t see that one coming. But apparently it’s the truth. And apparently it’s the main reason why we don’t see him on here all that much. His biggest complaint: redundancy. He says he reads the posts that fall into the “opinion” or “editorial” context and doesn’t see the point in going through the motions of logging in, adding two cents to his blog, and then logging back out. I guess you could say Al thinks I beat him to the punch; I guess you could say whatever the hell you want about Albert Redman ‘cause you’re talking about Albert Redman and not talking about me.

Truth be told, we were very close to splitting this racket up. Al thinks I could go further with my own blog focusing on “real life” things like my growing family, developments at UNCG, and my newfound spirituality. Meanwhile, he’d rather bash Paris Hilton. He may be right. But I’m too stubborn to give in and give him anything to brag about.

This blog is called Satori in Stereo. It was always envisioned that I would be hitting you with the left, bass-bumpin’ speaker while Albert hit you with the right, “these go to 11” treble speaker. If he’s Ad-Rock, then I’m MCA. If he’s Butch, I’m Sundance. Mr. Redman reminded me last night that there’s a dynamic here at SiS we haven’t really exploited.