This entry has been moved here because it more accurately relates to posts that have appeared here.
A retraction has been requested over my recent entry, “The Missing Link.” The writer who requested it left the following comment in “Patrick’s Place:”
Patrick, you’re being paranoid.
I don’t like pointing people to blogs that aren’t regularly updated, and your blogs weren’t being regularly updated. Even people working in media can manage to put an update more than once a week, and you’d fallen well below that average. And before you try and figure out to hammer in the last nail, I might point out that I also dropped public links to the blogs of my SISTER and STEP-MOTHER for the same reasons. You were hardly alone in the purge.I find this tendency of yours toward autoflagellation — not to mention melodrama — a little repellent. You recently wrote on your blog(s) that not everything you wrote in that space was meant to be reflective of Angry Reader, and yet here you are applying the same reactionary principles to mine.
If you figure out a way to keep your content fresh, so that readers of my blog can follow a link and find something more than stale posts more than a week old, then perhaps I’ll put you back on the public blogroll. Until then… unclench.
Also, he responded to my immature overreaction in his own journal, which has since been taken down.
He is perfectly within his rights to remove me and anyone he chooses from his blogroll list for whatever reason. I have never said otherwise.
On the other hand, since I apparently read more intent than was warranted in that action, then I happily admit that I was wrong. Had my responses to him not been returned, indicating that his email addresses were no longer valid, and had I been able to receive a response from him through his own website to a personal message I would have sent, I suppose I would have had the correct information sooner. Since I was left to assume that he no longer wanted to communicate with me in any way, and since my last email from him seemed to me to be harsh, I felt that my assumptions weren’t so unreasonable.
But that’s the past now. I made the judgment I made at the time based on my perception of the situation. That’s something we all do every day. We’re not always accurate in our individual perceptions.
I’m not sure what more I can say in the way of a retraction better than the remarks he has made at my expense, so I hope running his words here as well as my own apology for my part of the melodrama will help the situation. I’m happy to put the matter behind me if he is.
Other people have other ideas than mine. I am not always right. Believe it or not, this is a fact not lost on me.
