BurningbirdIn the last few days, I keep pulling weblog postings. I write something, and then don’t like it and pull it. I write something else, don’t like it and then pull it.
Apologies to readers for this dizzying round of weblog posting/weblog pulling/weblog posting and so on.
I’ll try to leave this one up.
I am becoming such a fan of Happy Tutor. In particular, today’s (and yesterday’s) posting on Writing of Injustice grabbed my attention and my thoughts.
It takes a rare talent to put forth such thoughtful prose wrapped, but not obscured, in a cloak of humor.
No matter how strongly you feel on a subject, at a certain point you either mellow out, or burn out.
Moth to a flame. We circle our inner passions, beating at the fire with our wings, driving in air to make the flames leap higher. At some point, if we continue this feeding of the fire, our wings will catch in the flame.
Jonathon writes of a meeting between an old friend and himself, and the differences between the person who was John Anthony, intense participant of seventies demonstrations, and the more mellow Jonathon of today.
I also attended demonstrations in the seventies. I yelled and yelled and yelled, through cupped hands and microphone. During one march down the middle of I5 in Seattle, I pounded one of the lights along the side of the road with a stick, jumped up on the cement border, and yelled and yelled with all my might into the crowd. When I stopped to draw in breath, hoarse from the effort, one of the guys in the crowd yells back, “I can’t hear you — there’s too much noise!”
Like Jonathon, I too changed my name during this time, from Michelle Rae to Shelley. Unlike Jonathon, though, I am still as intense now as I was then and find myself living in a state of alt from day to day.
However, I also wouldn’t mind being thinner. If one is going to go up in a puff of smoke, one can at least look good while doing it.
I’m sure that it’s only a coincidence that Daypop disappears from the Web the same day that Blogtank makes its first full day appearance. Really. I’m sure that the ‘Tankers had nothing to do with it.
(Note to self — make sure to pay my Blogtank dues…quickly)
And did you all hear the news? Movable Type version 2.0 was released today. Another fine tool for the webloggers toolkit.
I’m sure that it’s only a coincidence that Daypop disappears from the Web the same day that Blogtank makes its first full day appearance. Really. I’m sure that the ‘Tankers had nothing to do with it.
(Note to self — make sure to pay my Blogtank dues…quickly)
And did you all hear the news? Movable Type version 2.0 was released today. Another fine tool for the webloggers toolkit.