Friday, September 12, 2003

Two of my favorite blogs are signing off today. William Gibson turned in his notice today. "I’ve found blogging to be a low-impact activity, mildly narcotic and mostly quite convivial, but the thing I’ve most enjoyed about it is how it never fails to underline the fact that if I’m doing this I’m definitely not writing a novel – that is, if I’m still blogging, I’m definitely still on vacation." I'm sad that he's stopping, but glad a new book will be coming out of it.

The other blog is Moja Vera; the U.S. soldier that has been blogging about his days and nights in Iraq. Moja gets to come home tomorrow. Again, I'm sad to see the end of his blog, but glad he gets to come home alive.

This whole blogging thing I first thought was really silly. All I kept thinking about was some of the really bad ones I had seen in the beginning... bad poetry and people rambling on for days about nothing. But then I read a few really good ones like those above and became totally intrigued and addicted. I began to see the ramifications of this type of one to many dialogue...everyone having a voice to the masses. This seems most important now. With the world taking sides on everything, these blogs help me remember that this world is not made of just me and "all of them". It helps me see the humans behind the "they". It allows me to see that we are all people struggling from our own point of reference to understand to desire to sense to feel to love to hate to to live -- to be. Even if that means I have to read some bad poetry once in a while.

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

Peace. Blog on!

Thursday, September 11, 2003

In an almost unbelieveable turn of events, MTV reports that the Pixies will be reuniting in April. I've done a little checking and it appears that this might not be true. Only time will tell. If it does happen, then w00t! lot of places but first read on BoingBoing

Monday, September 08, 2003

Someone posted this on the Gibson board and I thought I might share. It's great fun! Online Coloring Book