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Monday, January 20, 2003 |
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Yarr. All this malaise has gotten my stomach all worked up and sent me straight into acid-reflux hell. Dammit. This sucks. I am chowing down Maalox like a pitcher before a big game. WTF. Make it STOP! 9:26:06 PM comment [] 
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Searching for something different So, once again, Chris is right. Why is it that I do this? Why do I post these rants, these links, these entries? Is it narcissism? Possibly. Is it out of a desire to express myself? Yeah, probably. Ask yourself, right now, Why is it that I blog? Is it self-aggrandizement you seek? Do you just want to vent? Here is why I blog. I blog because my day to day existence offers little in the way of literati-style creativity. I am an engineer most of the time, while that requires some degree of creativity and craftsmanship, it doesn't work the same as writing and crafting text and words. I blog because I have an opinion. I blog because I need an outlet for writing, a public outlet so I can become a better writer. I write about my life because it's where I have the best voice. More importantly, I blog because no one else sees things the way I do. It's hard to be a moderate in a town where partisanship is religion. It's hard to not despise the media and the way they only cover stuff that makes sensations. So I blog because this is the way I have a voice. There is no voice for the moderates any longer. We are instead left with the partisan, not-so-independent media, the partisan politicans, the partisan pundits on the talk shows. There needs to be the voice of a moderate out there. So here I sit, moderate blogger. That is why I blog. Does this constitute individuality or importance in the community? No. Alas, it does not. I don't have some special viewpoint like Glenn Reynolds. I don't have some super important credential. I'm just another geek. I suppose that I'm just another voice among the myriad, shouting about my iPod, my blog, my car, my life, my pictures. I guess it is just narcissism. I guess I blog for validation. I get excited when there's another comment on my screen. I'm angry with myself that this matters to me. I should be more concerned with my friends, who in part I've been neglecting because of this. I should be more concerned with things that have effect in my life, my music, for example. Except that's just another way of validating myself. I perform because that's what makes me happy. Is blogging just another wayh of performing? Yeah. I guess it is.
I just wish I was as good a blogger as I am a singer. |
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More Malaise It's not just us!!! Dive Into Mark is talking about blog-malaise. Having just served on the panel for the Bloggies, I feel that you can't get onto the A-list of Bloggers if you're not already there. The only person whose blog I read regularly who was up for an award was Chris. Yet, there are many good blogs that I feel were ignored (Dan Hon and Marc Canter and Inluminent) and probably won't make it to A-list status.
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Thank you, MartinInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.~~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "Letter from Birmingham Jail" MLK Day isn't one I get off from work, but it is one that I celebrate. Odd, coming from a white guy? Nah. In elementary school, our principal Dr. Dolcini, taught us that this was a day that affected us all, regardless of skin color, because any intolerance, any discrimination, against white, black, yellow, red or purple, was wrong on its face. Dr. Dolcini marched with Dr. King in Georgia and Alabama. She knows what they faced. She was a white woman of privilege who laid it down to march with Dr. King because she knew they were Right. We need to march against injustice not just in our own country, but in lands other than our own. We need to march for the women under muslim oppression. We need to march for the religious Chinese who are persecuted by their government for believing in God. We need to march for the North Koreans who are brainwashed in Pyongyang. We need to march for the disenfranchised in Africa, under corrupt rule by dictators. We need to march for our own freedoms here.
Dr. King had the courage to drop it all and try like hell for people he'd not even met, or known. Just because it was right. We need to do the same. |
Some snaps This is the Convention Center view. Not a bad view. Savannah seems to be a pretty little river town...
And here's our office, where I will be spending all my time. |
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Heh. In my world... Yeah, in my world, I would indeed have Bush out talking to protestors, but in my world, Bush could hold his own in a discussion with someone older than, say, 12. In Frank's World, however, he's beating them with a lead pipe. Which ain't too bad either. I don't like anti-war protests much. I like the idea of peace, but sometimes we have to understand that diplomacy can no longer be carried out through diplomatic means. 10:37:48 AM comment []
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BAD times. Chris talks about BAD or Blog Affective Disorder. I wrote about this on Saturday, but the entry got eaten and I just didn't give a fsck, so I guess that I'm affected, too. I think it's the whole "depths of winter" thing. I know I'm affected seasonally, so this just could be similar. Now...what to do about it.
For the moment, nothing, I'm in National Conference hell for now. Pray. |
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Random. HAH! Usually I find Dan Savage's "Savage Love" column to be amusing but this takes the cake: As lovely as a pregnant woman is, it's just not that hot to screw a panda bear." Hooboy. 10:13:28 AM comment []
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I made it! Have survived as far as Savannah, GA. Drive took 17 hours, but we took the scenic route down highway 17 from the VA border all the way to Savannah. It was pretty cool, and now I'm in Savannah. Pictures, and conscious thought later. 9:00:26 AM comment []
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