In a world where solipsism rules and where Sisyphus is the citizen journalists' team mascot, it seems to this columnist that it might be worth the effort to shoehorn an appointment with a typewriter into a schedule that is already an insurmountable challenge to efficient time management.
After we do our next installment of volunteer work for the Marina (del Rey) Tenants Association, check out the statue of an alligator in the El Paso town plaza (or is it a crocodile? They look alike in the dark.), we will start holding a schizophrenic style debate with ourself about assigning ourself to doing some columns about the earthquake recovery efforts in New Zeland.
If it seems that such a gig doesn't have any connection to American political punditry, perhaps we can ask some of the relief workers the Goldwin style question: "How much do you love America's latest war crimes?"
Writing about the same topic, over and over, such as what books are new or what contests are new, might earn a columnist an opportunity to be cross posted on one particularly big aggregate web site, but, to this columnist, that seems too much like a job and we prefer to continue our efforts to build a collection of readers who ask: "What did he write about this time?"
Recently a fellow blogger in the Berkeley area noted with trepidation that the three dot (it's called an ellipse) style of column writing often triggers skeptical responses from readers. If some fiddle head conservative troll, who tries to evoke the old high school bit of humor about the world's smallest violin playing "My Heart Cries for You" or accusations such as "You are crazy!", can do better aren't they free to submit such efforts? It seems that those who can, do; and those who can't, post troll comments.
When the manager of a hotel informed the music group "The Who" that there had been complaints from other guests about noise in the rock stars' room, legendary drummer John Bonham (allegedly) threw the TV out the window and said "That was noise; this is music."
Now the disk jockey will play Patsy Cline's "Crazy," Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," and a bootleg recording of the Rolling Stones project sometimes called "The Contractual Obligation" album. We have to go post bail (again?) for a friend. Have a "OR'ed" type week.
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