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| Monday, May 12, 2003 |
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See? He knows. 
| | RageBoy: Doc has the mind of a huckster punctuated by the awed innocence of a little child. |
| | Sounds right enough. Anyway, there's a story involved. |
| | So Doc, I just wanted to say thanks for that last message you left from Halley's cell while you and she and J.P. were walking down whatever street that was in New York City, J.P. waiting for me to say something back and Halley in the background going "It's an answering machine, J.P., this new technology you might have heard about?" I can't remember exactly what you said. Or even approximately. I'm not sure what to make of it myself. |
| | I don't remember exactly, either; but I do know it happened by a sculpture that looked like an accident at the corner of 5th and Central Park South: |
| | We were two guys and a girl, looking for a good time in New Yawk, goofing around. It was like in an old movie, only with shitty lighting. I remember that much, because I took photographs that required Night Vision and turned everybody into Living Dread. Here's J.P. and Halley: |
| | That's the Plaza Hotel in the background. |
| | And, like he said, RageBoy wasn't around, even to pick up the damn phone. |
| | So we blamed him for knocking over the pole anyway. Made sense. |
Required blogging
Department of Corrections
| | I just did a search for a rare blood disease on Google and it corrected my spelling. I'm not sucking up when I say that rocks. |
| | By the way, Alltheweb says it's "Opera compliant." I like Opera, but isn't something wrong when a Web site says it's "compliant" with a browser? |
Stuff that matters
| | Interesting to follow what's been up with Stuart Hughes, the very literal warblogger who arrived at the panel short one foot. Recently Stuart revisited the spot where he survived and others did not: |
| | It's the first time since I was injured that I've seen a picture of the spot. Jim went back there a couple of weeks ago and took some photos but they haven't arrived yet. Just this one photo stirs up a whole hornet's nest of emotions for me. Near this spot my life changed irrevocably in an instant. Near this spot my friend Kaveh was cut to pieces and killed by a landmine. As I lay beneath our jeep seconds after the blast that blew part of my foot off, I thought this scene could be the last thing I ever saw. I was lucky to leave there alive, let alone conscious and lucid. |
| | Memorial Day is coming up. Is there a memorial for journalists who gave their lives to bring news to the rest of us? There must be. |
| | [Later...] There's this (woops, bad permalink) from Padraic. |
On the Web, everybody can hear you scream
| | Blogs proove you've got one. A voice, that is. That's your whole story, right there. You can go off in any direction you want from there, but voice is what it's about. |
| | Blogs Are The "Real Voice." |
| | Two important characteristics of blogs are that they are written by a person who is knowledgeable and passionate about the topic, and that they are written in a "real voice." This is a cosmic shift from the marketing and public relations materials that are the staple of business communications. |
| | Not speaking of which, the good Doctor has committed a a funny unkindness toward Renee Zellweger, whom I recently saw looking real uncomfortable on that weird Bravo suck-up interview show, starring the surreal James Lipton, acting like a caricature of a caricature of himself, which means his voice is like some kind of Klein bottle. |
A thin paper trail
| | Turns out the Times didn't put the story online, and approximately nothing has happened. |
Gatherings
Back to another front
| | While it's cool that Salam is back, and that (presumably) Freedom of the Post is alive in Iraq, there are a shitload more bloggers in Iran, and they're up against a fully operational theocratic government that's big on censorship and the rest of it. |
| | And thanks to Lou and Dave for the pointers. |
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