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Category: ponder

  • Circular Reasoning

    The bloggers mentioned in the story, who presumably are able to articulate their own opinions, received Wal*Mart email and began to simply copy the PR text into the blogs. Wait, I don’t understand. This is news? I thought it was common knowledge that a large portion of bloggers (the majority?) simply copy text from elsewhere…

  • Current Linking Favorites

    I can’t help but find people to be fascinating. It’s that rascally human side of me, I reckon. So, naturally, I have a wonderful time getting brief glimpses into other lives and situations, thanks to the ever-so-prevalent world of blogs. A couple more that have recently caught my eye (in addition to the fun Waiter’s…

  • Every day

    It’s not easy to come up with something to write about every day, is it? Part of it, I realize, is finding my “voice” for what I want to say, and I imagine I’ll wander in range of that Voice eventually. I like the idea of putting the day’s events in some kind of context,…

  • Surprisingly good

    There have been a surprising number of potentially interesting shows on television recently. Some of them won’t pan out. Many of them won’t achieve the celebrity status of getting a Season Pass on my TiVo. And yet, I like being surprised by something that turns out to be good. Though a newcomer to “Lost” on…

  • Just clap your hands

    Beck sez, That’s where it’s at … Two turntables and a microphone … These are exciting times. I am mixing together a baker’s dozen of idealistic principles to create a more nutritious blend of who I am and who I wish to be. You have heard how that phrase “baker’s dozen” came in vogue, haven’t…

  • One model for distribution

    I joined a discussion on a mailing list today about the usefulness/likelihood/profitability of making documentaries (on the International Media Users Group IMUG list). Here’s what I had to say: Would you hit the jackpot on sending your first program out and then getting $2000 per station x 300 stations? About as likely as winning the…

  • The Dynamic Figure

    In looking through a stack of papers on my desk, I found this marvelous self-description — not written by me or about me, but it was sent to me (from Gwen) back in ’97: “This is an actual essay written by a college applicant to NYU. The author was accepted and is now attending NYU.…

  • Stillness, peace, and hope

    Ah, Monday. Almost December, but you knew that. No sculpture class this upcoming month (I’ll post pix of my sculpted works here after they’ve been fired and scanned); no tap lessons, either (just wait ’til next year). But I am practicing to sing in Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Church of the Good Shepherd choir (up…

  • Being or not too being

    I have to say that I highly recommend “Being John Malkovich.” I found it surprising, funny, twisted. Can’t wait to see how the Saturday morning cartoon version turns out.

  • From Sterling To Signal View

    I’ve been in my new apartment almost one complete month. In case you haven’t heard, I finally moved from my tiny, 200-square-foot efficiency in Riverview to a modern apartment off Mountain Creek Road. It only took some seven years for that transition, but it was worth it. If you ever had the opportunity to visit…

  • Naming the dead, without dread

    It was more a firing line than a Vietnam skirmish. Assembled in a fairly straight line of chairs placed side by side, the seven of us sat facing an actual live audience — awaiting their reaction while trying not to anticipate it. I spent last Friday and Saturday night engaged in this ritual. Our goal…

  • Defragmenting my life

    There’s nothing like a Monday to get me thinking about the future… thinking about assembling more pieces in this jigsaw puzzle of a life… thinking about what’s ahead of me this week and what’ve I left behind me after the last seven days. I suppose I wandered into this train of thought earlier today, waiting…