Yours Tully,

Utica College Alumni

That’s bu as in boo too.

If you diss my city, I’ll break your legs. Nah – just kidding.

Then the blog appears to have gone on hiatus for quite some time. This hiatus is marked by a series of embedded video posts. Most of the videos have since been disabled or deleted, but the ones which are still up appear to convey the same similar qualities: sarcasm, anger, dark humor and frustration. Each video post is accompanied by a hash mark for a title, and I’m guessing this has something to do with the author’s intention to convey that he thinks living in Utica is like being in prison (i.e., his mostly pointless video posts are like the hash marks on a prisoner’s cell wall which he uses to keep track of the days).

The video span of the blog appears to be managed by an interim author and serves as a segue to the darker and ominous version of the blog in its present form. The blog as it stands today is nothing like the blog at it’s inception. The About page reads: “The Utican seeks to express a common, nuetral viewpoint about our city which eschews extreme opinions and uniformed biased assertions.” This definition of the blog is not being upheld if one considers the racist things said in this post. Racism, no matter how justified it may seem, is nothing but biased assertions. Racist statements are biased because they come from one person and are directed at another person (who is usually a stranger to the first person). If Mr White says that Mr Black is a lazy and violent man, Mr White’s assertions about Mr Black are biased. Mr White can only understand Mr Black’s allegedly violent and lazy behavior through the context of his own experiences, therefore his views about Mr Black are biased (and hence inadmissible for serious consideration).

But more than just breaking its own rules and turning biased, however, the blog is now taking dark humor to a new level. One would have to be thick skinned not to become uncomfortable reading the recent gloomy posts. This post is about killing yourself, and another recent post was about suicide and included a picture of an actual dead body. The current author seems like he is headed for bad things.

It’s a bit hard to make sense of since the blog doesn’t follow what the About page says it’s about. “With its partnership with translpanted Uticans living in New York City,” The Utican seeks, “to create a forum where topics about the city of Utica can be expressed and discussed in an auspcious, objective fashion.” So far I haven’t seen that except in the more positive older posts. Maybe the current author needs to re-read the About page.