More delights
Running in shorts today was an unexpected treat, but we're getting a shift tomorrow. A date keeps running through my mother's memory, and we finally figured out that tomorrow would have been her 59th wedding anniversary. I think a big flowering plant will be in order.
Zipping through a recently written novel loaned to me by a friend; it's titled Water for Elephants, and although it's a pretty good story, I'm struck by the lightweightedness of fiction these days after a summer of reading George Eliot. The book seems like one tiny idea, fluffed out like cotton candy and spun like its ready for the movie derived from a best-seller stage. Sweet, but mostly insubstantial; there's one character who really amounts to anything solid. Not a waste of time, though, if you're wanting something that goes quickly.
Zipping through a recently written novel loaned to me by a friend; it's titled Water for Elephants, and although it's a pretty good story, I'm struck by the lightweightedness of fiction these days after a summer of reading George Eliot. The book seems like one tiny idea, fluffed out like cotton candy and spun like its ready for the movie derived from a best-seller stage. Sweet, but mostly insubstantial; there's one character who really amounts to anything solid. Not a waste of time, though, if you're wanting something that goes quickly.
posted by isabelita at 4:43 PM
2 Comments:
Read and Delete
I saw your post on Educational Whisper. Should windspike move on?
Bush is history. He's damaged the USA by ruining the national Republican Party, which means the end of two party politics on the national level for the foreseeable future, which damages the USA.
A dead horse can only be beaten for so long. Political blogs, right and left, have lost their purpose. Bush is a nut case. He had help. There's no more to be said.
On the bright side, Bush energized a lot of people to oppose him. Politics has been changed by the internet.
Runners have a lot a stamina but maintaining a topical blog is too much work for one person. Even Special Forces mission-planning requires 1/2 hour's rest every 4 hours.
Blogging has spread the good people so thin in the blogosphere that it might be more productive to comment in a blog that has more readers, e.g: DailyKos.
Read and delete
Why "Read and Delete"?
Political goings-on are hardly a dead horse. They've been the blessing and bane of humans for as long as we've been clumping together. But if someone is tired of writing about them, of course they're entitled to do as they please. Going into a group sounds like a good option.
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