Well, since you asked, here are the reasons why I came up with Porn Week for LoyarBurok…
From: http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/dude42/pterodactyl_porn.JPG
1) Porn is everywhere. Everywhere you go people are either talking about it or they’re emulating it. And don’t even try to argue the exceptions, I was stuck in a traffic jam just last week and all I heard was “Porn porn! Porn porn! Porn porn!” – Malaysians are all about the porn and it’s time LoyarBurok got in on the action.
2) LoyarBurok is getting boring. Since they started the “every1 can write” movement, there’s been a lot of bad/boring writing on the site that I don’t care for. So when they asked me to curate a week, I sure as hell was not about to go through pages and pages of “Allah this” (oops! ) and “Allah that” (oops! I did it again).
If someone says “Fuck you and your belief system, June!”, I can choose to punch them in the face or I can choose to say “HEY FUCK YOU TOO ASSHOLE!” and go get a milkshake*, you know?
From: http://lemonodor.com/images/kelis.jpg
*My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they’re like “What the fuck am I doing on this ship?”
From: http://m1.ikiwq.com/img/xl/qjRLsaF9FsjgbhS0Jtw6ld.jpg
On a more serious note, I think if everyone in Malaysia just grew the fuck up and went off to generate positive energy (e.g. contribute to Porn Week) instead of caring about the latest propaganda the government is spewing to tear us apart, it would have no effect on us, and we’d have more interesting/constructive things to talk about.
3) There are still many good writers /interesting people out there who are not writing for LoyarBurok. As with porn, there’s increasing participation, and then there’s widening participation. Big difference. Check out the type/quality of stuff that will be featured this week, compare it with most of the stuff that is usually on LoyarBurok, and see the difference for yourself. I think LoyarBurok has potential for much more and it should not get complacent even after the launch of The Big Little Story Book by June Low (no matter how awesome it is.)
From: www.junewow.com
4) Editing/writing on LoyarBurok these days is insane. In both cases, you are Bon-conned (this act should have its own Wikipedia page – it’s when Edmund Bon manages to convince you to do something for him, usually without you knowing). Anyway, LoyarBurok is all systems, guidelines and formulas now – it used to be a lot more fun. I remember the good ol’ days when I would send something to Edmund and he would put it up on the site, and that would be the end of it.
The “Now every1 can write” approach coupled with the lack of a full-time editorial team means people self-publish their articles on LoyarBurok via WordPress. This would be fine, except there are a shit ton of rules for editing and writing – the LB Writer’s Guide, the LB Editor’s Guide (it’s not official but you could probably get enough material just from the 9 billion emails sent back and forth each day).
Every comma, every question mark, oh fuck a doodle dah – it’s sickening even talking about it. The short of it is that you now have to navigate through a labyrinth of crap before your article matches the “loyarburok standard”.
To me, all of this goes against the LoyarBurok spirit. No true LoyarBurokker would/could possibly comply with all that shit. And that is why I have not. For Porn Week, apart from correcting a few obvious spelling and grammatical errors, I have not altered any of the pieces in any significant way. In addition, as with anything to do with sex, sexual etiquette applies. Therefore, it would certainly be rude to offer unsolicited advice on how their efforts could be improved…
June was Bon-conned into editing for LoyarBurok. She never wants to do it again.
Read this first: LB Terms of Use
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