Remember that Bjork song from a few years ago, "It's So Quiet?" It came out when I was in my second year at NYU, and the newly installed video machine in one of the dining halls played the Busby Berkeley-style musical production constantly, alternating with Tupac's "Kalifornia," and Weezer's "Sweater Song." I tried to get the machine to play some song that was from the soundtrack of "Clerks" that was so great that I forgot what it was called or who it was by, only that the video had many of my favorite scenes from that ever-so-fine film. (God, sometimes I miss the mid-90s.)
Video or not, it has been quiet on the 'net this week, hasn't it? I mean, I write a screed over at BlogHer calling "pro-life" leaders terrorists (something I wholeheartedly believe), and pretty much no one blinks an eye. (Not to denigrate the fine people who agreed with me, but I expected outrage, sputtering, and disgust from the other side.) Comments on CUSS, usually limited, are even fewer than usual. So it goes. Optimistically, maybe people are on vacation?
Then, in a weird twist, I find myself agreeing with an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal! Husband reads the Journal daily for their financial reporting, which is claims is excellent, and both of us find the op-ed pages and movie reviews to be beamed in from Uranus. (It was discredited as a planet for a reason, folks. Ha ha ha!) I don't understand how I find myself in bed with conservatives when it comes to Israel, but I hope they keep their pants on.
The world is a mysterious place.
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It's been quiet all over I've noticed. I find less and less time to read, much less comment!
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping it's the tail end of summer keeping it quiet, but I also feel like people are becoming adverse to discuss dissenting views except on blogs they know agree with them - which is sad, really, but pertains to the discussion you and I had at BlogHer about how peeps are treated on and by certain blogs if they don't tow the party line for that blog. Certainly, I feel like BlogHer has always been open to dissent, but lately people seem to only want to play in familiar corners of the web with people who agree with them.
ReplyDeleteI left a long comment about how I don't have internet, and one of the things was that it doesn't work when I steal it, and what do you know, the i-net stopped working so I couldn't post my long and thoughtful comment.
ReplyDeleteI did point out that Uranus is still a planet though.
Heh heh. Uranus. For my part, I'm still reading, I'm just lurking more now that school has started. It's 7:30 at night and I haven't read my morning paper yet. It's that kind of week.
ReplyDeleteI blame Bush.
ReplyDeleteI was a much better correspondant before the Bush administration. Plus, of course, Bush is an ass. Ergo...It's just another thing he's fucked up.
Thank your brother kids, now he's ruined the fun for all of you.