If the comments and e-mails I've received are any indication, I'd spoken for a lot of people in my previous post. Still, the negative responses, although few in number, were nonetheless confusing and hurtful. I'm sorry, but calling me a "bitter alcoholic" is just uncreative, if not entirely absurd. If you want to strike a nerve with me, you're going to have to do a lot better than that.

Before we put all of this behind us, let me share with you an e-mail I received this morning from one of my readers. I found it to be very touching. For those who are unable to read my blog with the nuance and cheek-pressed tongue it deserves, this e-mail will be enlightening. Enjoy.

Dear Toby,

I must admit that i have not nearly given your blog the credit it truly deserved. About a year and a half ago, when i started to add blogs to my daily internet routine (news, fashion, porn, blogs, etc) I was hesitant to add your blog, and only seldom did I venture to this website. Recently, that has changed.

As a young and handsome gay man, and as I would consider myself, a relatively educated reader; I have systematically been frustrated with blogs like BratBoySchool and Wannabeleader, who mascarade trite political and social commentary as true wisdom, and then boost their sites popularity with pictures and videos that no respectable individual, especially one who wants to come off as wise, would propagate. I don't have many problems with people behaving like prostitutes, I just ask that it be kept away from all realms of intelligence and academia. I therefore completely support and applaud your fortitude in calling out BratBoySchool. (for what it is worth). Nothing would make me happier than for blogs like those, blogs that pretend to be something they're not and then fill in the gaps in content with soft core porn, to be looked at the way they deserved to be seen.

Yet you should also be applauded - not because you are a gay blog that doesn't revert to relative prostitution and pseudo-intelligence - but because you also offer quite an entertaining blog that reads quite well. While this email is really of little consequence I just wanted to take the time to thank you for your blogging, offer whatever support this email offers and to inform you that from now on, I will certainly look at this website everyday.