Normally this isn’t something I do, but I’ve decided I should respond publicly to an email I received from two emails I received from a reader. First of all this particular reader has posted a couple of comments on my post about ball pythons.

You’ll find this person posting both as “Monty” and as “Brianne”. Which for some reason she thought was clever or something, but apparently didn’t account for the IP address being the same. But whatever. I played the game and responded to both personalities “in character” and called out BS when I read it in the comments. Then I got two emails from this person. The first email says:

BRIANNE () wrote:
I’m also a little confused with this crap you’re trying to tell my readers
about the snake burying it’s head in the back of the mouse’s neck to sense
the pulse. That is complete and utter garbage. A total fabrication that no
doubt someone lied to you about. A BP is constrictor. You throw a f/t rat in
with it and it will still strike and constrict. There’s no pulse to be found
and it still goes at it with the same gusto.

HERE THIS IS WHAT YOU WROTE ME, I HAVE FUCKIN WATCHED MY SNAKE DO THIS
FUCKIN PRICK

Ok easy enough. Apparently my dear friend Brianne thinks I’m telling her that her snake doesn’t bury it’s nose in the back of the mouses neck. Two of my snakes do it all the time. What she misses, by a country mile is the fact that I’m telling her that doing so to sense a pulse is utter garbage. How can I be so sure? Because like I said in my response to her comment on the blog was that it does this regardless of if the mouse is alive or dead.

And her second email (because it seems that one isn’t enough to describe how upset she really is)

Brianne Moore () wrote:
Hi im the one with the name”monty” i thought i would just ask you a little
question. how can you be a fucking know it all, and at first i was impressed
with the info you were letting others know, but your personal life and blog
scene really doesn’t have anything to do with ball pythons, i think someone just
brought it up and you went with it, cuz now that i think of it everything that
you have said so far is stuff i already read off the internet and you didnt
really help. but hey there is a lot of fake people in the world and your just
another one of them. i think that your one of those insecure weirdos who think
that having a big famous blog will make you special or something, i mean damn
you were named after a fish maybe you should look into a blog about fish. well
im never this mean but something you said when you wrote to monty being me
“brianne” really set me off, you’re like one of those rich little fucks that
think they fucking know everything, damn im so pissed that you turned out to be
a fake jerk i cant even say anymore!

Brianne let me ask you this, publicly. How did you miss that this is a PERSONAL blog? Because you seem pretty surprised when you realize that my personal life and “blog scene” has nothing to do with Ball Pythons. This blog has nothing to do with Ball Pythons aside from the fact I felt like posting something about them on here. Which apparently in your economy is a crime.

You’re absolutely right someone just brought it up and I went with it. That’s how life works. You find something that interests you and you “go with it”. Welcome to reality.

As far as originality goes I don’t recall saying it was original information. It doesn’t need to be original information. You might have found it elsewhere on the internet but judging by your comments and questions on the post in question you didn’t manage to do much with that information. Aside from make some stupid comments like the one about your snake checking for a pulse.

A blog about fish? Hmm interesting. Maybe I could make a video tutorial on tying flies or proper casting techniques? Oh wait someone already has done it so that wouldn’t do for you at all. After all a simple internet search turns up the same information. Not to mention the monetization when it comes to fishing as a topic isn’t so hot. But thanks all the same for the idea.

It’s ok to be pissed Brianne. We all do it. It’s not ok to be pissed without reason though and that’s exactly what you are doing. So let’s review what Brianne has done wrong:

1. Mistook a personal blog for a topical blog
2. Missed the fact that a blog (personal or topical) will be rife with opinion. That’s why it’s a blog. It’s not meant to be a newspaper
3. Failed to read the blog she was commenting on (this one) beyond on article. Has she read more than just one article there would have been no confusion on her part
4. Needs to learn a little something about IP addresses and Word Press technology before assuming she has pulled one over on anyone by commenting under two different names

Really we could go on and on but there’s no need to list everything out. So you might wonder why I’m airing dirty laundry for the world to see. A few reasons.

• It serves as a good object lesson
• Any communications sent to me either by email or via blog comment is fair game. How’s that for a privacy policy?
• I feel like it

I don’t generally post emails online from readers. Usually I just respond to the email itself and leave well enough alone, but I decided it would make sense to turn a bad situation into a new post.