Month: June 2013

  • The Voice of A Free Press Crying In The Wilderness

     

     
    You by no means need to be a supporter of Socialism to get something major out of this address by Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald last Thursday June 27th.
     
    Greenwald, along with former NYTimes and current Truthdig reporter and author Christopher Hedges, journalists Jeremy Scahill ...and Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi are among the very few who perform what a journalist's true function is: to report the news as honestly and thoroughly as they know how because they believe that the public- that's you and me- MUST know what the actions and intents of it's supposedly freely elected government are doing in the name of we the people.
     
    Without someone performing this function we, as a people, are blind.

    If you depend on someone like NBC's "Meet the Press" talking head, David Gregory, who is a self-aggrandizing nincompoop and a cowardly lackey, or- God forbid- Larry King- a man I used to like when he was probably the last major voice on radio (in the late 1970s-early 1980s) in the USA before Rush Limbaugh inherited that title- but who has been an irrelevancy spending his last years as an old pimp for a mass media he probably knows is comprised of liars- you can expect to remain in the dark for the rest of your lives. But I think I know that the people who venture into my little web corner of the world are still those people with a spark of real life in their eyes and souls.
     
    The video is not the best quality and Greenwald's talk is via Skype- which I take is a preferred technology when discussing matters with a largely unclothed person on the other end of a web interaction. The latter is something I wouldn't know about directly because it's a cam-to-cam interaction and I would be horrified to have the object of a momentary lust have to gaze back at me, no doubt thinking- "gawd- I hope something like that doesn't happen to ME!".
     
    By the way I'm not sure why the woman chairing the meeting is shouting into the screen - perhaps someone told her the microphones were out. Either that or she's distantly related to Ethel Merman. winky
     
     
     
     

     

  • What's It All About "Elfy"?

    We're still moving out the old and into the new here.

    So far we've found out the bathroom doors stick- they scrape and are loud. The dishwasher doesn't work. And some of the window screens are missing or are dented enough that flies can still get in.

    Oh well.

    Our almost former landlords have been fairly pleasant overall- after all they told us we had to move a few months and it's taken every day of those months to get settled. However one of them was somewhat unpleasant to PLC on the phone this morning.

    Oh well times two.
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    In a bit of  other news I discovered and old friend of some of ours is around and , more or less, about these days.

    I don't know how many of you remember the cam-op and discussion board site  "flyguylive" from the late nineties-earlys oughts.
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    I'm sure at least a couple of you do.

     But if you remember a guy who went by the web moniker "feralelf" I found him again through Google+.
    This means of course that GooGoo Plus is officially good for something.

    Anyway his story of the last decade and more has been pretty tough. But he is a beautiful soul.

    I'm going to have a lot more to say but I wanted to leave you with a link to his youtube site that has an introductory video.

    Talk to you later, dears :

  • We Found A Place- we're in the middle of moving

    We found a place. I feel badly that so much has happened while I've been away.
    The issues have been that it has been a grueling  process to finally get somewhere to move to.
    We should be completely moved in by this Sunday.
     I guess there are some major changes at Xanga. I surmised this by some of Mr. Biggles comments though in truth between being worked very, very, very hard at my job and the frustration and anxiety in finding a place to move to I have had little chance to come here.
    I am henpecking this out at the place we're moving out of. Most of the furniture was moved today. I used over what would be my weekly take-home pay to pay some guys to do most of it. I was at work and PLC directed the actual moving from here.
    I've actually been working some unpaid overtime at work to try to catch up. It's a measure of how little time it feels like I have to get the tasks I'm supposed to be doing done.

    Anyway I won't have much more to say except we are fine. Frazzled and tired but otherwise fine.
    I look forward to catching up with all of you. Again, my apologies for being such a scarce e-friend.

    Once we are "landed" I will begin picking up the pieces of some other life aspects beyond "must keep working" and "must find a place to live".

    I look forward to finding out more precisely what is going on with Xanga.

    I hope by Sunday I will have had a chance to at least partially catch up.

    Love to all of you and forgive my lack of presence here-we'll try to remedy that, too.