i love it when you cal - An Expose
Wednesday 20 June 2007
i love it when you cal. The title is cheeky and whimsical; it screams to the reader, 'I'll use caps when I'm good and ready' and knowingly pokes fun at the author with the replacement of 'call' with 'cal', a bold, and completely inventive move. But is this blog everything it promises? And who is this 'Cal', a man who is, by his own admission, 18 years old, possibly the most socially destructive age of all. the bowler hat investigates...
At first glance, 'i love it when you cal' (hereafter referred to as iliwyc) looks like any other casually run blog. A place for someone to relate their day to day events/interests/thoughts with other 'bloggers'. But look again. The title itself, a cunning anagram for the mysterious yet disturbing phrase, 'ache willy evolution,' reveals the fractured mind of a madman. Observe too the layout of the blog. A layer of fresh, vernal grass lies at the top of the page. But look down, and the optimistic promises fade to a dark and macabre black. This is surely a reflection of the man behind the blog himself.
Perhaps, I hear you say, you are looking into things too much. After all, you have told us nothing of the content so far. The content. Well, let's dive into a typical post shall we? A mere four days ago, Cal wrote a brief review, concerning Jekyll the new adaptation of Stephenson's classic Gothic chiller. How exactly did he review it though? Did he perhaps say it was well acted but a bit gory? Or maybe that the set design was excellent, but he couldn't relate to the charachter, as he was too very evil?
No.
Neither.
Instead he said, 'I look forward to next week's episode of this unsettling drama' and more bizzarely still that he wanted 'to pull off each of my fingers to stuff in every sense-receiving orifice;' as disturbing and macabre kink as I have ever heard a man utter. No wonder he has an ache willy evolution. So already we have seen how Cal seems to have two distinct personalities; one of happiness and positivity, and one of dark, eerie secrets; this juxtaposition echoed in the layout of his blog, the anagram of its title, and the sympathy with Mr Jekyll. Perhaps this was a one off post however. I asurre you however, it is not.
"Cal; subversive or misunderstood blog jockey?"
Let us look to the 13th of June, where Cal wrote, 'I always do this. A momentary lapse of self-control.' In the very same post, Cal admits that he wants to 'make an ultra-violent remake of The Notebook'. Perhaps more chilling still is the language Cal uses thoughout the post, betraying his bipolar, subversive and unstable personality; exactly in the vein of Jekyll and Hyde. "It's created a problem within my mind" he says, a subconscious recognition of the split personality he exhibits. Perhaps more worryingly still he says, "I'm finding it increasingly difficult to remember which is which."
With Cal's comments becoming increasingly more erratic, including the absurdly meglomanical comment left recently on one of my own works (" I'd like some more posts please. Chop chop.") we can only hope that Cal manages to find what shred of humanity he has left, if any. Because if he doesn't, then I will lose my only blog viewer.
DW
posted by danny @ 10:19,
1 Comments:
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At 20 June 2007 at 11:46,
Unknown said...
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Prepare for a counter-expose.
I'm thinking an article entitled: "Is this the face of evil?"
It's going to be brilliant.
Thanks for the ego-trip, you brought a wry smile to my care-worn face.... If this doesn't bring people to our blogs...I don't know what will. I did recently have a Portuguese man offer to sell me a t-shirt on the comments once...that was a highpoint.
