| Rayne Today Searching for dharma, in spite of the weather...
RantsCounterRants: Martha – another perspective… One of our newer bloggers, Adrian Zoot at Global Suburb, adds two cents to the Martha bashing debate. He’s read Toobin’s New Yorker piece on Martha, too. Interesting take. Trying not to sound like Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, but sometimes I do wonder, Why can’t a woman think more like a man? Not all the time mind you, just on occasion. After reading Zoot’s post I can appreciate having another point of view. 9:32:45 PM  comment []And it’s still not safe here… Yup, we’re racking up a body count, now up to two victims. The older child came home early with classic symptoms: temperature, headache, severe stomach ache. Ah yes, When asked if she brought any make-up work from school, she said, Nope; my teacher was out with the flu and the substitute didn’t give me any work. Oh yeah, there were three other kids in class with the same thing. Makes me want to garb in hazmat gear and fumigate the school, swab it down with bleach. Schools are really just little bio-terror labs, crawling with biological agents. Every year there’s a new release of agents spawned, cutting a swath through the community, all of it originating with kids at school. The U.N. inspectors should be looking here AND in schools in Please, I’m praying, not me or the spouse. Please, not the On a brighter note, the little guy might be turning the corner already. He had five crackers for dinner and kept them down. Yee-fricking-haw. comment []A little present for you… I’ve been blessed with more visitors than usual, thanks to Salon’s Scott Rosenberg links to my post on Martha Stewart bashing. Thanks for coming, make yourselves at home! Some of you may even be new to Salon blogs, or haven’t had the chance to browse them. Admittedly, a Salon blog directory is needed here, but I’ll give you a few pointers. First, shop around by Recently Changed Blogs list (lists updates in chronological order, usually since
Many of us have favorite bloggers listed on our sites in navigation bars. I only have a small handful listed. These are some I’d like to recognize – they stimulate my writing every day: The Raven (http://blogs.salon.com/0001381) manifests a highly polished, dark persona through his website; his work has the feel of Playboy with a wicked sting. While we don’t see eye-to-eye on a couple things (like Martha Stewart), we definitely are simpatico politically. Check out Raven’s incredible gift for words soon. Secular Blasphemy (http://blogs.salon.com/0001561), written by Jan Haugland from
Paul Hinrichs at Playing with My Food and other things (http://blogs.salon.com/0001444) is a foodie, political pundit, edgy wit and fan of the arts, all rolled into one. He’s merciless on mushrooms, be warned! Mark Hoback, Fried Green al Qaedas (http://blogs.salon.com/0001424) keeps us on our toes – one day he’s a graphic artist, another a poet, yet another a humorist. Oh yeah, and an editor all the time, creator of Virtual Occoquan, a collection of Salon blog output. Real Live Preacher (http://blogs.salon.com/0001772) is just that: a real live preacher. Poignant stuff, not exactly your average snoozer sermon. In fact, he doesn’t preach, just lays out life as he sees it through his own eyes. Moves me to tears frequently, too. The Barbaric Yawp (http://blogs.salon.com/0001811) isn’t really. Christopher is a liberal forced to work in the conservative world for food (aren’t we all!). He let down his hair in his blog, releasing some truly fine writing in the process. Check out his series, P.J.: A Memoir soon; I just love that Phileas! There’s so much more here, I don’t want to omit anyone, but I’ve already chewed up a lot of blog here. I’ll try a synopsis on more of my faves soon. Hope this was helpful to you! comment []RantsCounterRants: Yet more on SOTU... Okay, this has to be the briefest SOTU assessment yet, from Dave Barry’s week-old blog.
Note the amount of actual content. Yup, that's it. Don't blink. p.s. nice start, Dave, welcome to the blogosphere! 2:26:10 PM comment []Just when you thought it was safe… Of course, it shows up at the oh-so-welcome hour of Nope, it has to rear its ugly head so as to force you to stumble in the dark, hoping like hell you make it in time, carrying your live, precious, crying cargo. The Norwalk virus has arrived. It’s claimed my 5-year-old as its victim. Naturally, he comes to his mom first in the middle of the night. Crawls in bed with me, uncomfortable for some unspecified reason. He cuddles up, fetal-spoon position; we drowse off listening to Dad/Hubby snoring softly. At 2:00 a.m., son-of-mine is mewing, Mom, Mom, I think I’m going to throw uh-uh-uh…I don’t know if he can’t get out the last consonant because he’s gagging or if he’s paused by being lifted bodily out of my bed. I carry him to the bathroom, tripping on my own damned slippers, hitting my toe on the bed, listening to a muffled, Hurry, hurry, hurry, Mom, it’s coming, uh-uh-uh… I’ve never seen anyone spew like this, adult or child, with or without alcohol consumption or bulimic induction. Poor, poor baby, I thought he yakked up his socks he was going at it so long and hard. This really is a most uncivil, less-than-graceful way to deliver a viral load; I think this as I clean my carpet after session number two. Why not something a bit more finessed, like the upper respiratory viruses that aerosolize on sneezing? (Of course we did that last week, wouldn’t want to be redundant…) So, thanks to this unscheduled interruption, I may not be posting much today. I’m keeping company with a wan-faced boy and a spray bottle of Clorox cleaner. I beg you, wash your hands thoroughly and frequently. Or you’ll be getting an inconvenient surprise, too, and no warm-weather cruise to show for it. comment []RantsCounterRants: In case you also missed the pre-SOTU assessment… Kane gives a wonderfully concise assessment of the State of the He’s on the money. Between Kane and The Raven’s brilliantly eloquent post-SOTU reduction, I’ve heard all I needed. Didn’t even need to see the actual SOTU. Basically, in a nutshell, the comment []
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
