#1
Posted: 11/3/12 at 1:01am
It's been quite a while since we've heard from the old man and though I know it's just because he's without power and dealing with the aftermath of the hurricane he claimed he was going to ride out and not because of a tragic turn of events. Still, I got to thinking, you know, how would we as a community come together virtually to celebrate somebody who was here from the beginning, if he indeed was... gone?
And then I thought, "Why should we wait until someone is no longer with us to say the things about them we always wanted to say? Wouldn't it be great to hear those things while still alive?" In that spirit, I would like to share the great times, nothing mean or negative that does not at least have a sort of positive spin on it.
I will miss the very lengthy interviews he conducts for our community, very often with people I have never heard of but Dollypop gives me, the reader, the sense that I very well should know them because they are very important. Many interviewers get out of the way during an interview and try to pass off the illusion that only the subject is there, that the interviewer is practically invisible. Not Dollypop. He was always one to defy conventions, to be the centerpiece of an intimate story about two special people, himself and his interview subjects.
Many interviewers choose to bring the reader into some sort of proximity with the subject, to give the reader a sense of "being there" with them. But Dollypop says "no" to all that clap trap. With Dollypop, it's more a sense of implied closeness between he and the subject, and the reader is always aware that there are unspoken connections between DP (a nickname he always disliked once he found out it stands for "double penetration" in the porn genre) and the subject that, no matter how lucky the reader is in the rest of her life, she will never quite experience such an insider sensation as Dollypop has with this celebrity. In a way even slightly more severe than the gossip mavens of the '50s, Dollypop is always between you and the interviewee and will definitely mediate any information flowing in your direction. And anything you would like to say to the subject? Just forget about it!
What he wrote was totally different from the kind of interviews that make a subject accessible to a reader, instead with Dollypop, it's more a case of his declaring "I know something you don't know!", which as any child on a grade school playground will tell you, is a very tantalizing idea indeed.
I guess that's one of the things I will miss most about Dollypop. Um, you know, after he's gone, many many years from now, and not because of any tragedy resulting from the unfortunate weather incident.
And then I thought, "Why should we wait until someone is no longer with us to say the things about them we always wanted to say? Wouldn't it be great to hear those things while still alive?" In that spirit, I would like to share the great times, nothing mean or negative that does not at least have a sort of positive spin on it.
I will miss the very lengthy interviews he conducts for our community, very often with people I have never heard of but Dollypop gives me, the reader, the sense that I very well should know them because they are very important. Many interviewers get out of the way during an interview and try to pass off the illusion that only the subject is there, that the interviewer is practically invisible. Not Dollypop. He was always one to defy conventions, to be the centerpiece of an intimate story about two special people, himself and his interview subjects.
Many interviewers choose to bring the reader into some sort of proximity with the subject, to give the reader a sense of "being there" with them. But Dollypop says "no" to all that clap trap. With Dollypop, it's more a sense of implied closeness between he and the subject, and the reader is always aware that there are unspoken connections between DP (a nickname he always disliked once he found out it stands for "double penetration" in the porn genre) and the subject that, no matter how lucky the reader is in the rest of her life, she will never quite experience such an insider sensation as Dollypop has with this celebrity. In a way even slightly more severe than the gossip mavens of the '50s, Dollypop is always between you and the interviewee and will definitely mediate any information flowing in your direction. And anything you would like to say to the subject? Just forget about it!
What he wrote was totally different from the kind of interviews that make a subject accessible to a reader, instead with Dollypop, it's more a case of his declaring "I know something you don't know!", which as any child on a grade school playground will tell you, is a very tantalizing idea indeed.
I guess that's one of the things I will miss most about Dollypop. Um, you know, after he's gone, many many years from now, and not because of any tragedy resulting from the unfortunate weather incident.
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Updated On: 11/4/12 at 01:01 AM
