BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Peace bloggers. We have an official name, now. Of course, can’t have a term without a definition, and my definition of a peace blogger is anyone who believes, as Hodja did, that everyone in the Middle East conflict is right. And we believe this because we know that no one in the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I found an excellent essay, Vietnam War Retrospective that discusses photojournalism’s effects on the Vietnam protest movement. Among some of the events recalled by the author, Frank Cossa, is the following: We saw a callow, fair young man slip a flower into the rifle barrel of a helmeted MP standing guard in […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mike Sanders says And the equivocation and silence of the non war bloggers is deafening. Not only condemned for what we say, we are now condemned by what we don’t say. Weblogging now has a new owner and that owner is the war bloggers and those who believe that if we don’t […]
Today the clouds rolled in and it started raining. I spent the afternoon listening to excellent music, sipping hot cider, and emailing old friends I haven’t talked with in a long time, including “bossman”, my ex-boss from dot-com days who now lives in Australia. Among the music I listened to is McCartney’s new double CD […]
Shattered Webs Points meet and swirl in an eddy of communication and reach, growing into a circle so large that light must surely shine from its depths… …until the darkness of the surround intrudes and the circle spins more slowly …and falters …and breaks Splintering into bits and pieces of shattered web, gossamer fine, edges […]