We offer a link to Bloggers Anonymous purely as a public service to others who may need it.

Bloggers Anonymous is a new site that seeks to reach out to those in the blogging community who are, shall we say, in over their heads. Obsessive about posting. Manic about site traffic. Crazed commenters.

Not Burbanked, mind you. Others. Others who clearly need help.

We mention this because we received a very nice comment on our recent Spider-Man 3 story from a gentleman named “David” (who is likely writing under an alias) who “claims” to represent Bloggers Anonymous:

“I am just so thrilled that this whole comic book genre had been really getting it right the past 5 years. Sure, there were a few stinkers (Daredevil, Catwoman) but overall these movies have been excellent and as the X-men franchise shows, they even connect to non-comic fans.

And BTW, fantastic blog. Thanks for the Spidey Scoop.

PS, I’m the chairperson of BA - and I encourage you to get help.“

Really, “David”, thanks for the compliments - but we feel that perhaps there’s been a misunderstanding. Let’s talk about it, after the jump.

Burbanked is run in a perfectly healthy, non-addictive blogging environment. We’re just not the kind of people who imagine scenarios in which we abandon our day job to spend carefree days surfing and blogging and commenting and laughing and sitting around in our pajamas. And we absolutely don’t have these thoughts late at night when everyone else is sleeping and we’re lying awake, in wide-eyed terror, while we contemplate another day groveling for scraps at the dirty feet of Corporate America.

We rarely check our traffic statistics more than 12 times per day, and we’re almost never filled with the white-hot fury of a thousand suns when we see that, for some reason, Technorati has us listed as only having updated our blog a completely unacceptable “15 days ago”. Ha-ha! That’s just a technical glitch beyond our control! It’s no cause for weeping, or for tearing the paper towel dispenser out of the wall in our building’s third floor bathroom and damn near destroying our laptop with it.

That’s just not who we are.

And besides, if we were in need of Bloggers Anonymous, wouldn’t your “fantastic blog” comment above be totally inappropriate to the point of being cruel? Wouldn’t that be akin to saying, “Gee, I didn’t know you were an alcoholic, but I do admire the way that you just drank an entire case of Stroh’s and chased it down with seven flaming shots of Rum 151. Can you show me that again, because I missed capturing the first part on my camera phone.”

We’re certain that you never intended such an implication, “David”. Because if you really are who you say you are, of course you understand the delicacy with which these matters would be handled. And you understand why we cannot - within the space of these sacred, valuable pages - just “come clean” and “admit to our problem” if indeed we even had one, which of course we don’t, and we never will, not ever.

Because to do so would be to waste a perfectly good blog post. After all, we’ve got readers who depend on us, even if they never comment to tell us so.

But thank you anyway, “David”, and we hope that you get whatever help that you might need. We’ll keep you in our thoughts.

And thanks for reading Burbanked! Please mention us to all of your friends. And ask them to comment when they come here. And please just see if they wouldn’t mind checking in every day at least once.