I AM SNARKY BEND!

Ever since Saturday, October 15, 2005, the website/blog known as Snarky Bend has garnered the attention of local bloggers as well as Bend personalities who work for KTVZ News Channel 21, The Bulletin, Bend.com and a few of the other Central Oregon personalities. The thing that has mainly set it apart from the other blogs in town is the fact that it's anonymous. Hosted on Blogspot, through Blogger, so that it has no domain name with an identity attached. Email contact is through Gmail, so basically it could be some kid in high school, someone who works at Taco Bell, or even Tom DeWolf. In fact, it could even be you or me!

That's where it gets interesting. Who is this Snarky Bend character, or staff? Does it really matter? To most people it probably doesn't, but for those featured on the site, it might be a tad bit too much. That's where some people took the other feature of the site and fought back with anonymous comments. It's true that any site doesn't force you to tell the truth who are you, but if you post a comment on my site, or any other site running Movable Type or another similar weblog publishing platform, the owner can see much more information about the commentor than a site hosted on Blogger.

On Saturday Snarky Bend had too much with the finger pointing. For some reason Shannon was the target, but even if she was, why admit it or deny it?

so, i got an apology on snarkybend's blog. apparently there were some comments on their blog about me being snarkybend. i didn't see them but i guess they were pretty bad because snarkybend deleted them and is now moderating comments. anyway, you can read about it the drama over on their website. and i'll state for the record, i'm not snarky bend.

That's where the title of this post comes into play. There is this movie, and this movie is an epic. it is called Spartacus. Now I’m not going to compare Snarky Bend to Spartacus, but there's a scene in the film where Spartacus is cornered within a group of his supporters. The Roman soldiers demand that Spartacus stand up and turn himself in. One by one, all of his supporters stand up and proclaim, "I AM SPARTACUS!".

The tagline of the movie is: They trained him to kill for their pleasure. . .but they trained him a little too well.

Maybe the things that Snarky Bend attacks deserve it, and maybe they don't, but it's an obvious fact that those posts don't write themselves, and maybe this city has truly become everything nobody wanted it to become. Maybe Snarky Bend has become the Spartacus of Bend blogs. Maybe it's time to stand up and shout, "I AM SNARKY BEND!".

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