Archive for March, 2012
Long Ride Home
“How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead?” — I so love that line by Patty Griffin –> no personal pronouns, it brings the world into one bowl, that we own together …
Human Hot Spots
On his Facebook page Jay Rosen writes: “One of the best pieces of advice I ever got is so simple, so artless, so ordinary-sounding that it took me many years to realize how valuable it was. It was something Norman Mailer said that he got from the critic Dwight MacDonald. He said that Macdonald had given him an essential clue as a critic, which was: ‘Look to the feel of the phenomenon. If it feels bad, it is bad.’ This seems relevant to the story [about] [t]urning homeless people into WiFi hot spots at South by Southwest. Yes, it actually happened. Feels bad. Is bad. Just a bad idea.”
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