Oops, Mom Googled Me: writer caught by Repug mom!!! HAHA!!

[NVMojo]

JUST IN TIME for "google" to become an official verb, my mother learned how to google. About a week ago. She figured it out herself even though, less than a year ago, she thought high-speed Internet access was strictly for impatient people, namely her adult children. When she finally agreed to give up dial-up, it opened up a whole new world: googling.

And so last week, my mother decided to google, and for fun, she googled me. Then she clicked on an essay I'd written called "9 Tips for Surviving the Holidays at Your Republican Parents' Home." It was published in the LA Weekly in 2004.

The only newspapers to grace my parents' door are the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the Catholic Digest and maybe, in a pinch, USA Today. My father, a former football coach, used to hate the New York Times because it had no self-respecting sports page. Now he just hates it for the liberal rag that it is, and he feels the same way about the Los Angeles Times.

So I figured I was safe writing a little 900-word satire for the LA Weekly. I mean, who of my parents' generation and political bent reads the Weekly? The bulk of my mother's e-mails are forwards on moms or kids or dogs or jokes or Erma Bombeck's purple hat musings. I never dreamed she would venture to Google and happen upon the piece in which I liberally trash Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, box wine and the holidays. Now my mother is no longer speaking to me.

My last e-mail from her was something like this: "I googled you and found 'How to Survive the Holidays With Your Republican Parents.' Why didn't you share that one?" Why indeed?

more...

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-madden16jul16,0,222271.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

[Broken_Hero]

1. I experienced something similiar

A RW guy I use to debate on another chat site, also posts his blurbs on myspace.com, and I read his blurbs, and posted them here. Come to find out, he erased his blurbs, and then decided to google his blurbs, and he found, my copy/paste job here, on DU.

And then he went off on a diatribe about who did it, and I sent him a message via the myspace, and said...

"good sir, it was I who posted that, its your own words, so if you want anyone to blame, blame yourself"...

Needless to say, we aren't talking at all anymore....

[villager]

2. holy cow! I know that writer!

Thanks for the link...

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. You are just SO busted.

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

4. Cute story; I wish the writer had turned her folks, though. nt

[rumpel]

5. It's a cute story

below the giggles, I find pain of a family inflicted by the likes of rush l. and faux news.

sigh

[Canuckistanian]

6. OMG, you're really in the LAT!

I never knew you were a "major op-ed journalist".

That's good stuff. Can you point me to more of your writing?

[RagingInMiami]

7. You know it was meant to be

And you know you secretly wanted them to know exactly how you felt.

Good writing. I checked out your site and read your bio. Very impressive. What song is that playing?

[MagickMuffin]

8. I have to admit that this made me laugh

I apologize for that, however, I guess that's the price you will have to pay for
1. helping your mom become more tech savvy, and
2. knowing that now you will have to become a ghost writer.

I can sympathize since I haven't spoke to my family since right after 9-11.
Can't say it bothers me though, except I kinda wish I knew how my sister feels now that we are no longer searching for Osama.
She wanted to tie his balls to a F16 and drag him down the tarmac. Oh well she can still dream of the day.
Although she was never a news person, so she probably doesn't even know about the search being called off!:shrug: