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Two weeks ago Joe and I woke up to news of the London terrorist bombings; today, two weeks later, we did again. It sounds like this time around the terrorists didn't try very hard. You go, Tony Blair! Show those terrorists who's boss of your country. This is not happy news, but it's better news than it could be--which, in these times, you must settle for as good news on the international scale.
I bet all those professional bloggers are going nuts. You know the people I'm talking about, right? Those folks who think their blog is actually CNN? If Sneezy & Tacky were a cable channel, it would probably be Noggin or Lifetime or the Hallmark Channel. Definetly not FoxNews or CNN. I don't read blogs that are not about everyday life. Is this snobbism? Escapism? Whatever. I just don't understand how someone could feel compelled to run a 1-man/woman ameteur news outlet. I'm about as keyed in to the media revolution as a hermatic monk.
One apsect of my very recent life has become very monastic, and this is in my feverent devotion to study of the written word. That's right--the new Harry Potter installment has sucked me in. I could have stayed up until 2am reading it, but decided to save some for later; perhaps today I'll take off and read on a bench outside somewhere just to shake it up a little. I had forgotten how "The Order of the Phoenix" (Year 5) was very much of its time, in a way; Rowling worked in a lot of post-9-11 paranoia and beurocratic overreaction. So in Year 6, "The Half-Blood Prince,"we have a full-blown war happening, with security measures at their highest. Security...we all hear that word on television and news radio about a zillion times a day. When security works, it thwarts terrorist attacks--just like the foiled bomings in London today. But when security goes heywire, you get things like the Bush Administration using copies of the Geneva Act as butt-wipe. Well, I love my escapism--especially when it had a timely subtext. Today I hope a write a little, but I will probably read a lot of Harry Potter.
I bet all those professional bloggers are going nuts. You know the people I'm talking about, right? Those folks who think their blog is actually CNN? If Sneezy & Tacky were a cable channel, it would probably be Noggin or Lifetime or the Hallmark Channel. Definetly not FoxNews or CNN. I don't read blogs that are not about everyday life. Is this snobbism? Escapism? Whatever. I just don't understand how someone could feel compelled to run a 1-man/woman ameteur news outlet. I'm about as keyed in to the media revolution as a hermatic monk.
One apsect of my very recent life has become very monastic, and this is in my feverent devotion to study of the written word. That's right--the new Harry Potter installment has sucked me in. I could have stayed up until 2am reading it, but decided to save some for later; perhaps today I'll take off and read on a bench outside somewhere just to shake it up a little. I had forgotten how "The Order of the Phoenix" (Year 5) was very much of its time, in a way; Rowling worked in a lot of post-9-11 paranoia and beurocratic overreaction. So in Year 6, "The Half-Blood Prince,"we have a full-blown war happening, with security measures at their highest. Security...we all hear that word on television and news radio about a zillion times a day. When security works, it thwarts terrorist attacks--just like the foiled bomings in London today. But when security goes heywire, you get things like the Bush Administration using copies of the Geneva Act as butt-wipe. Well, I love my escapism--especially when it had a timely subtext. Today I hope a write a little, but I will probably read a lot of Harry Potter.
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