Google + Blogger = the new CNN (only bigger)

And there's more...

after meanwhile

Michael's brainfart has issued another fart here, well worth perusing. Keep those fartlings - fartsprogs? - coming!

Meanwhile

The real reason dear Tom asked Jeneane to ask me to come out and play was something to do with this brainfart, cross-posted from my day blog (as in - happy to be here, but based on that last post, below, best I don't give up the day blog...).

This:

We can't trust CNN this time.

From Friday's Guardian newspaper:

"In 1991 American voters rallied behind President George Bush Sr for the seemingly bloodless confrontation with Saddam Hussein...Neatly hidden from a small army of journalists was the reality of war - a reality that can make these very same voters recoil in disapproval...

"...About 150 American journalists, photographers and film crews were scattered among attacking units. Their reports were supposed to be fed to a rear headquarters and then shared by hundreds of journalists from around the world...Not a single eyewitness account, photograph or strip of video of combat between 400,000 soldiers in the desert was produced by this battalion of professional observers.

"Cheney, brimming with contempt and hostility for the press, saw journalists as critics of the military who must be contained. "Frankly, I looked on it as a problem to be managed," he said after the war. "The information function was extraordinarily important. I did not have a lot of confidence that I could leave that to the press."

This suggests an urgent need to recruit and train an army of Iraqi bloggers, either here in the 'Free West' (*cough*), with strong connections to feet & eyes still resident in their homeland, or preferably right there in the thick of the horror.

We should arm them with satellite WiFi blogging tools and digital cameras to record and publish the unvarnished, un-CNNed truth.

Perhaps some of Ken Nichols' "Human Shields" could be recruited to assist - to get the full, horrific graphic news out past Cheney's attempts to 'manage' the information flow. They've already got the stones to put themselves in harm's way. Asking them to document, in real time, what they witness is a logical next step.

And if we're searching for yet another way to justify the Google/Blogger deal (Bloogle? Bloggle? Glogger?), this could be it. Ponder the combination of Google News + Blogger in a situation like this.

If any communications channel holds the potential to carry the full and complete truth, it's the blogosphere, in all its uncensored glory.

Assuming, of course, that the content at source can be identified and streamed in without interference from either end of the "nexus of terror" that starts in DC and ends in Baghdad.

Think about it: this could become an infinitely more powerful source of real frontline reporting than CNN could ever be. (That's 'reporting', not necessarily 'journalism', btw - I'm not getting into that debate here).

Perhaps verifiably Iraqi blogger Salam Pax could be persuaded to weigh in on this one...

And perhaps Doc could be persuaded to donate the balance of his Chris Pirillo laptop fund to purchase a robust digital camera and deliver it to Salam, or one of his countrymen willing to venture into the combat zone, in the interests of securing at least one unfiltered feed live from the coming obscenity...

Evenin' all

Thanks, Jeneane, for inviting me to play. Can't quite figure out why I've not bugged you about joining before now, but here I am so whatEVah.

This, btw, should be the appropriate, officially-sanctioned means of punctuating any too heated discussion on the topic of the Blogger/Google nuptials.

WhatEVah.

Whenever (whenEVer) two or more blogchums decide that they've reached that ouroboros moment in the debate, and each has ended up reaching the starting position in the argument originally taken by their opposite number, one of the friendly combatants should throw down his/her 'whatEVah' card. At this point all parties can agree that the most precise and useful answer anyone can arrive at is probably 'whaddafuck', and everyone can sod off down the pub for a well-earned shandy.

Example:

First Cove: "Google buying Blogger is a clear signal that the star named Wormwood has indeed fallen from the firmament, the Beast walks the earth, and the end of days is upon us"
Second Cove: "You're so wrong - the sound of Sergey and Ev's high five is a plangent, joyous signal that the rapture is imminent..."
First Cove: "WhatEVah."

We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming...

The Fifth Power

My blog is currently not taking posts. This is frustrating, as I finally have a topic I want to flog until it or I drop into a Slough of Despond, where I find Marek, and join him in drinking Vodka with Pepper while listening to Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto #3 seventeen times a day until the crack of Doom.

The floggified topic is the potentiation of the force field that is about to light up as the macrosphere (Google) merges with the microsphere (Pyra) - Sheila Lennon of the Providence Journal picked up on this in what she wrote yesterday. Google has done more to free us from the Flatland of the Fourth Estate than perhaps it has received credit for. It has gotten bad out there - as even Paul Krugman puts it (only he doesn't dare to say that the large print publications, including the one he works for, are barely less wall-eyed):

''For months both major U.S. cable news networks have acted as if the decision to invade Iraq has already been made, and have in effect seen it as their job to prepare the American public for the coming war.'' Krugman

And, there's this:

"Media for a long time was the resource of the citizenry, known as the fourth power, the power to oppose decisions of the government that would have harmful effects on people. The fourth power no longer has this power," says Ignacio Ramonet, editor of Le Monde Diplomatique and communications professor at the University of Paris. Now, rather than protecting the people, the "fourth power is now exploiting and oppressing them" for commercial gain, he said. "How can we tackle this when the protector of the people has transformed into its enemy?" Association for Progressive Communication

The fifth power could lie within the toolset to displace corporate broadcast coercion supplied as Google brings awareness to nano-publishing. Think about it.

Further To Teensy Synapses

Mine are all a-tingly.

Deep shite and tree mites

The thing to consider is, how this story plopped into the middle of some celebrity blogfest in LA and exploded onto the net via some of the most A, if not A prime, bloggers out there who just happened to be in the room. It's as if the event itself were merely a pretext for the bombshell that "happened" to drop in. And, it's as if the event occurred outside the sensory realm of the media, even though, as Tony Pierce noted, they were in the same room.

How much more perfect a vehicle for the unveiling of the advent of what we call blogging as something more than a bunch of itchy dorks jacking off behind the woodshed (that quote's straight from Arnold Schwarzenburger, Apemantean Treeslayer and Holy Spliffroller) could there be?

The linking of Google and Pyra fired a teensy synapse felt around the world: The advent of the blog as where events happen and are reported, and travel through the network nervous system that Bill Gates could never quite imagine but once dreamed he could own.

This is deep shite, as Mr. Locke once put it. Anyone bogged down worrying about Google's business model is not seeing either the forest or the trees, but just the little three-eyed tree mites that are left after Sulzenegger erases entire Canadian forests for the sake of underwear ads.

You are all invited to whoop it up. Feel free to think freely. Try to get outside the whining of those who see the merger of Google and Pyra as the kiss of death, the Trojan Horse, the Evil Empire coming home to roost on our forehead and shit in our beers.

Have a look at what Jeneane is saying here and here. See some of the other comments here. And Denise here. And Cory here. And I blogged about it here.

Why is this such a big deal? To me, it's because we have for a moment a linking of large and small, a linking that we have no reason to assume, prejudicially, is nefarious or anything like what such a linking would be if this were AOLTW and the New York Times, or MSN and Rupert Murd. There might be a grand experiment here, one that needs a little room to grow. This could reconfigure mainstream media, or at least shake it up in healthful ways. Let's hope with David Weinberger that it is still possible, at this stage of human evolution, for one large company to not cave to the temptation to become a stupid large company.

We recover who we are.

"While writing Uncle Tungsten, Sacks combed the Science Museum's archives for a photograph of the periodic table that shines in his memory, but he found only teasing near-misses taken a few years before or after the time of his pilgrimages there. In the last couple of decades, the old chemistry galleries have been cleared away to make room for more "kid-friendly" displays and corporate sponsorship events. The day we visited the museum, our quest for the former location of Mendeleev's garden took us to the third floor, where we came to a vacant landing. Sacks put his cushion on a step, sat down, and looked up at the white wall"

"It used to be here," he said. "That blank space is where Ollie Sacks had his revelation of infinity and saw God. I identified Mendeleev with Moses, coming down from Sinai with the tablets of the periodic law. I visualize, and can still see as I talk, the inert gases in their huge hexagonal jars - the jars looked empty, but you knew they were there. There were translucent sticks of phosphorus in water, and a fist-sized lump of iridium. It must have been a pound. I adored it. There was chlorine, green and swirling in the jar. I had seen dirty bits of cesium before, but they had a lot of it; it's the only other golden metal, golden and glinting. Masurium had no atomic weight - it was not clear whether this element had been discovered or not. And crystals of iodine, all sublimed at the top of the bottle.

"That's where it was. As I close my eyes, I see the cabinet and the cubicles. Do I see a little boy standing there, or am I seeing it through the eyes of that little boy? Just yesterday. And it's 55 years ago."

"By sharing the stories of our inner lives, we recover who we are and prepare ourselves for transformation"

~ from Wired April 2002. The Fully Immersive Mind of Oliver Sacks

more interviews at oliversacks.com

No Patent On Packet Switching - Paul Baran Interview Wired March 2001

"It didn't take very long before we started seeing all sorts of wonderful properties in this model. The network would learn where everybody was. You could chop up the network and within half a second of real-world time it would be routing traffic again. Then we had the realization that if there's an overload in one place, traffic will move around it. ...If somebody tries to hog the network, the traffic routes away from them. Packet switching had all these wonderful properties that weren't invented - they were discovered... Like the realization that by breaking the physical address from the logical address, you could move around the network and your address would follow you"
---
"The story I tell is of the time I went over to AT&T headquarters - one of many, many times - and there's a group of old graybeards. I start describing how this works. One stops me and says, "Wait a minute, son. Are you trying to tell us that you open the switch up in the middle of the conversation?" I say, "Yes." His eyeballs roll as he looks at his associates and shakes his head. We just weren't on the same wavelength.

If you think in analog terms, the signal arrives instantaneously. If you think in digital terms, time moves very, very slowly, and you can do things like change the path while you're in the middle of a syllable. But it was a mental block. They didn't understand digital"
---

"Do you ever wish you owned a patent on packet switching?"
No. First of all, 17 years went by very quickly. Secondly, it would've gotten in the way of people using it. That was one of the objectives: to broaden the access.
What's your sense of when you first thought that this thing you were working on was going to take over the world?

Around December '66, I presented a paper at the American Marketing Association called "Marketing in the Year 2000." I didn't talk about packet switching, but I described push-and-pull communications and how we're going to do our shopping via a television set and a virtual department store. If you want to buy a drill, you click on Hardware and that shows Tools and you click on that and go deeper. In the end, if you have two drills you're interested in, then you hit your Consumers Union button, and their evaluation goes up on the screen..."

from March 2001Wired interview with Paul Baran, the father of packet-switched network.

Never underestimate strangers with blogs

Gary writes: "Self elected representatives of strangers the world over, they sought each other out. Driven only by the instinct to reduce the number of strangers on the planet by a small number, the strangers threw themselves at the scenery of life and stepped out of their stranger free comfort zones. The strangers became friends to one another proving, if nothing else, that they were alive at that same precise moment"

30 page book in two sentences

What most would take up scroll-fulls of browser-screen-pagination to attempt explaining the phenomenon of Corporate's Best Practices lynch marks on our backs Tom delivers in a stamp-sized unlimited wisdom on his blog:

"When the basic operation defaults to the corporate advantage, it slopes to further self-interested micro-defaults at the expense of the customer. Resistance to (ahem) - aggressive marketing strategies - weakens. Fraud, like Justice, is blind - fooling those who use its "best practices" to plunder fools"

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Questions of Younger Generation

Recently The President Of Very United Strong Country where Liberty is a Gift of God to Humanity has visited a preschool where he gave a speech explaining his politics. After speech, questions from youngsters. A young preschooler Bob asks:
- Mister President, I have 2 questions: One. Do you think Revenge is a good justification for a War? Two. Do you think that dropping Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima was the biggest terrorist attack in the history of humanity?

But before The president could answer the question The Teacher announced a short bathroom break during which everybody was asked to leave the classroom and come back in 10 minutes. After 10 minutes the President was ready for questions from Youngsters.

A young preschooler Johnny asks:
- Mister President. I have 3 questions: One. Do you think Revenge is a good justification for a War? Two. Do you think that dropping Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima was the biggest terrorist attack in the history of humanity? Three. Where is Bob?

Bada Bing

Learning from Younger Generation

An old, old grandfather looking grandfather asks his young grandson:
- What is the name of that German guy who always hides everything from me?
and the grandson reponds-
- Alzeheimer, grandpa! His name is Alzeheimer.

Bada Bing

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Imagination at work

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From Faintingo to Bada Bing

Dearly Beloved.
We have gathered here tonight to bid farewell to our dear friend "Faith in God"
It has served us well all these years and now it is time for it to leave us and for us to go on with our lives without it.

There is a journey in front of us. The journey of discovery of what's beyond our "Faith in God". As the famous song goes "I will survive..." our 'Faith In God' will survive and from time to time it will want to came back for a visit and hang out. In those moments be generous and invite it for tea or something like that. Maybe do a monthly reminiscing session where you and your 'Faith in God' can sit down, sip a cup of coffee, or tea perhaps and leaf through the pages of your life and surrender to rememberance of moments passed.

These could be splendid moments to remind yourself of 'do you remember when I was 6 years old you were just being born I decided to be mean and you prodded me to be a nice boy..." and so on. Or 'How about that time when I was so scared when my father was beating my mom and I wanted to kill him but you told me to hold on to the hope and goodness in people, etc...' Yes... very nice time...very nice time we had together growing up all these years.

But we must move forward. We are not abandoning our 'Faith in God' but simply bidding it farewell and moving to the land of "Bada Bing" to forge new frienships and create new remembrerances.

Correction:
Our Computer Spellchecker for the above article has made a terrible mistake. Instead of the invented phrase "Faintingo" it replaced all occurances with "Faith in God". We apologize for the mistake.
The Editor

Copernicus Badabingus

In 'The Game of Life' the player moves from one field to the next on the board depicting a linear progression from a starting point called Birth to a finish line called Death. It has been recently discovered that the game has been played incorrectly. While the player having finished a move from one field to the next in a progression to a finish line is waiting for the next opportunity to move it has been believed that the board remains still allowing the player to ponder his next move. In fact it has been discovered that the board itself moves in a non-linear way while the player accustomed to progresssing linearily, sometimes remains still for long periods of time while finding himself hither and thither. In those moments the Player is taken by the illusion of moving yet can't explain why the moves are non-linear. The recent discovery has shaken the foundations of The Western Thought. It is believed the 'discovery' is in fact an act of sabotage to undermine the Western Thought by The Other Way of Thinking. There are rumours that Agents of The Other Way of Thinking are using a special phrase to recognize each other in the midst of noise of The Western Thought. The phrase is purported to be "Bada Bing" and the non-linearity jumps of the board itself in 'The Game of Life' are referred to as "Bada Bing Moments".

f-ing template

Hey, i made a cool logo for us. but i can't control the font size on this blog--it's whacky... as it should be.

who cares
write on
post on
fonts don't matter
words have edges

-jeneane

Colin is the axis of all media

In the surreal world that is today's media, Colin Powell has no opposition. None. There is no alternative view. None. In this Kafkaesque place, Reps. DeFazio and Paul didn't conduct a press conference yesterday. Nor did they introduce legislation that counters George Bush and Colin Powell's world view...a world view, mind you, that the world doesn't share. from Ruminate This.

501 People Who Don't Want War.

1) Suzanne Dathe, Grenoble, France
2) Laurence COMPARAT, Grenoble, France
3) Philippe MOTTE, Grenoble, France
4) Jok FERRAND, Mont St. Martin, France
5) Emmanuelle PIGNOL, St Martin d'Heres, FRANCE
6) Marie GAUTHIER, Grenoble, FRANCE
7) Laurent VESCALO, Grenoble, FRANCE
8) Mathieu MOY, St Egreve, FRANCE
9) Bernard BLANCHET, Mont St Martin, FRANCE
10) Tassadite FAVRIE, Grenoble, FRANCE
11) Loic GODARD, St Ismier, FRANCE
12) Benedicte PASCAL, Grenoble, FRANCE
13) Khedaidja BENATIA, Grenoble, FRANCE
14) Marie-Therese LLORET, Grenoble, FRANCE
15) Benoit THEAU, Poitiers, FRANCE
16) Bruno CONSTANTIN, Poitiers, FRANCE
17) Christian COGNARD, Poitiers, FRANCE
18) Robert GARDETTE, Paris, FRANCE
19) Claude CHEVILLARD, Montpellier, FRANCE
20) gilles FREISS, Montpellier, FRANCE
21) Patrick AUGEREAU, Montpellier, FRANCE
22) Jean IMBERT, Marseille, FRANCE
23) Jean-Claude MURAT, Toulouse, France
24) Anna BASSOLS, Barcelona, Catalonia
25) Mireia DUNACH, Barcelona, Catalonia
26) Michel VILLAZ, Grenoble, France
27) Pages Frederique, Dijon, France
28) Rodolphe FISCHMEISTER,Chatenay-Malabry, France
29) Francois BOUTEAU, Paris, France
30) Patrick PETER, Paris, France
31) Lorenza RADICI, Paris, France
32) Monika Siegenthaler, Bern, Switzerland
33) Mark Philp, Glasgow, Scotland
34) Tomas Andersson, Stockholm, Sweden
35) Jonas Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden
36) Karin Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden
37) Ake Ljung, Stockholm, Sweden
38) Carina Sedlmayer, Stockholm, Sweden
39) Rebecca Uddman, Stockholm, Sweden
40) Lena Skog, Stockholm, Sweden
41) Micael Folke, Stockholm, Sweden
42) Britt-Marie Folke, Stockholm, Sweden
43) Birgitta Schuberth, Stockholm, Sweden
44) Lena Dahl, Stockholm, Sweden
45) Ebba Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
46) Jessica Carlsson, Vaxjo, Sweden
47) Sara Blomquist, Vaxjo, Sweden
48) Magdalena Fosseus, Vaxjo, Sweden
49) Charlotta Langner, Goteborg, Sweden
50) Andrea Egedal, Goteborg, Sweden
51) Lena Persson, Stockholm, Sweden
52) Magnus Linder, Umea, Sweden
53) Petra Olofsson, Umea, Sweden
54) Caroline Evenbom, Vaxjo, Sweden
55) Asa Peterson, Grimes, Sweden
56) Jessica Bjork, Grimes, Sweden
57) Linda Ahlbom Goteborg, Sweden
58) Jenny Forsman, Boras, Sweden
59) Nina Gunnarson, Kinna, Sweden
60) Andrew Harrison, New Zealand
61) Bryre Murphy, New Zealand
62) Claire Lugton, New Zealand
63) Sarah Thornton, New Zealand
64) Rachel Eade, New Zealand
65) Magnus Hjert, London, UK
67) Madeleine Stamvik, Hurley, UK
68) Susanne Nowlan, Vermont, USA
69) Lotta Svenby, Malmoe, Sweden
70) Adina Giselsson, Malmoe, Sweden
71) Anders Kullman, Stockholm, Sweden
72) Rebecka Swane, Stockholm, Sweden
73) Jens Venge, Stockholm, Sweden
74) Catharina Ekdahl, Stockholm, Sweden
75) Nina Fylkegard, Stockholm, S! weden
76) Therese Stedman, Malmoe, Sweden
77) Jannica Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
78) Douglas Bratt, Sweden
79) Mats Lofstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
80) Li Lindstrom, Sweden
81) Ursula Mueller, Sweden
82) Marianne Komstadius, Stockholm, Sweden
83) Peter Thyselius, Stockholm, Sweden
84) Gonzalo Oviedo, Quito, Ecuador
85) Amalia Romeo, Gland, Switzerland
86) Margarita Restrepo, Gland, Switzerland
87) Eliane Ruster, Crans p.C., Switzerland
88) Jennifer Bischoff-Elder, Hong Kong
89) Azita Lashgari, Beirut, Lebanon
90) Khashayar Ostovany, New York, USA
91) Lisa L Miller, Reno NV, USA
92) Danielle Avazian, Los Angeles, CA, USA
93) Sara Risher,Los Angeles,Ca., USA
94) Melanie London, New York, NY, USA
95) Susan Brownstein , Los Angeles, CA, USA
96) Steven Raspa, San Francisco, CA, USA
97) Margot Duane, Ross, CA, USA
98) Natasha Darnall, Los Angeles, CA, USA
99) Candace Brower, Evanston, IL, USA
100) James Kjelland, Evanston, IL, USA
101) Michael Jampole, Beach Park, IL, USA
102) Diane Willis, Wilmette, IL, USA
103) Sharri Russell, Roanoke, VA, USA
104) Faye Cooley, Roanoke, VA, USA
105) Celeste Thompson, Round Rock, TX, USA
106) Sherry Stang, Pflugerville, TX, USA
107) Amy J. Singer, Pflugerville, TX USA
108) Milissa Bowen, Austin, TX, USA
109) Michelle Jozwiak, Brenham, TX, USA
110) Mary Orsted, College Station, TX, USA
111) Janet Gardner, Dallas, TX, USA
112) Marilyn Hollingsworth, Dallas, TX, USA
113) Nancy Shamblin, Garland. TX, USA
114) K. M. Mullen, Houston, TX, USA
115) Noreen Tolman, Houston, Texas, USA
116) Laurie Sobolewski, Warren, MI, USA
117) Kellie Sisson Snider, Irving Texas, USA
118) Carol Currie, Garland, Garland Texas, USA
119) John Snyder, Garland, TX, USA
120) Elaine Hannan, South Africa
121) Jayne Howes, South Africa
122) Diane Barnes, Akron, Ohio, USA
123) Melanie Dass Moodley, Durban, South Africa
124) Imma Merino, Barcelona, Catalonia
125) Toni Vinas, Barcelona, Catalonia
126) Marc Alfaro, Barcelona, Catalonia
127) Manel Saperas, Barcelona, Catalonia
128) Jordi Ribas Izquierdo, Catalonia
129) Naiana Lacorte Rodes, Catalonia
130) Joan Vitoria i Codina, Barcelona, Catalonia
131) Jordi Paris i Romia, Barcelona, Catalonia
132) Jordi Lagares Roset, Barcelona, Catalonia
133) Josep Puig Vidal, Barcelona, Catalonia
134) Marta Juanola i Codina, Barcelona, Catalonia
135) Manel de la Fuente i Colino,Barcelona, Catalonia
136) Gemma Belluda i Ventura, Barcelona, Catalonia
137) Victor Belluda i Ventur, Barcelona, Catalonia
138) MaAntonia Balletbo, barcelona, Spain
139) Mireia Masdevall Llorens, Barcelona, Spain
140) Clara Planas, Barcelona, Spain
141) Fernando Labastida Gual, Barcelona, Spain
142) Cristina Vacarisas, Barcelona, Spain
143) Enric Llarch i Poyo, Barcelona, CATALONIA
144) Rosa Escoriza Valencia, Barcelona, Catalonia
145) Silvia Jimenez, Barcelona, Catalonia
146) Maria Clarella, Barcelona, Catalonia
147) Angels Guimera, Barcelona, Catalonia
148) M.Carmen Ruiz Fernandez, Barcelona, Catalonia
149) Rufi Cerdan Heredia, Barcelona, Catalonia
150) M. Teresa Vilajeliu Roig, Barcelona, Catalonia
151) Rafel LLussa, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
152) Mariangels Gallego Ribo, Gelida, Catalonia, Spain
153) Jordi Cortadella, Gelida, Catalonia, Spain
154) Pere Botella, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
155) Josefina Auladell Baulenas, Catalunya, Spain
156) Empar Escoin Carceller, Catalunya, Spain
157) Elisa Pla Soler, Catalunya, Spain
158) Paz Morillo Bosch, catalunya, Spain
159) Cristina ! Bosch Moreno, Madrid, Spain
160) Marta Puertolas, Barcelona, Spain
161) Elisa del Pino (Madrid) Spain
162) Joaquin Rivera (Madrid) Spain
163) Carmen Barral (Madrid) Spain
164) Carmen del Pino (Madrid) Spain
165) Asuncion del Pino (Madrid) Spain
166) Asuncion Cuesta (Madrid) Spain
167) Ana Polo Mediavilla (Burgos), Spain
168) Mercedes Romero Laredo (Burgos), Espana
169) Oliva Mertinez Fernandez (Burgos), Espana
170) Silvia Leal Aparicio (Burgos), Espana
171) Claudia Elizabeth Larrauri, Argentina
172) Federico G. Pietrokovsky (C.F.) Argentina
173) Naschel Prina (Capital Federal) Argentina
174) Daniela Gozzi (Capital Federal) Argentina
175) Paula Elisa Kvedaras (CapitalFederal) Argentina
176) Antonio Izquierdo (Valencia) Espana
177) Ana Belen Perez Solsona (Valencia) Espana
178) Paula Folques Diago (Valencia) Espana
179) Nestor Alis Pozo (Valencia) Espana
180) Rafael Alis Pozo (valencia) Spain
181) Isabel Maria Martinez (Valencia) Espana
182) Cristina Bernad Guerrero (Valencia) Espana
183) Iria Barcia Sanchez, Spain
184) Elena Barrios Barcia, Uppsala, Suecia
185) Illana Ortiz Martin, Munchen, Alemania
186) Santiago Rodriguez Rasero, Munchen, Alemania
187) David Ags Daz, Pamplona, Espana
188) Juan Luis Ibarretxe, Galdakao, E.H.
189) Rubin Dez Ealo. Galdakao, E.H.
190) Marcial Rodriguez Garcia, Ermua, Spain
191) Imanol Echave Calvo. San Sebastian, Spain
192) Beg Ortiz de ZarateLazcano, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
193) David Sanchez Agirregomezkorta.Gasteiz, Euskadi
194) Alberto Ruiz De Alda, Gasteiz, Euzkadi
195) Juan Carlos Garcia, Espana
196) Jon Aiarza Lotina. Santander, Spain
197) teresa del Hoyo Rojo. Santander, Spain
198) Celia Nespral Gaztelumendi.Santander, Espana
199) Pedro Martin Villamor, Valladolid, Espana
200) Victoria ! Arratia Martin, Valladolid, Espana
201) Javi Tajadura Martin, Portugalete, Euskadi, Spain
202) Lourdes Palacios Martin, Bilbao, Spain
203) JesTs Avila de Grado, Madrid, Espana
204) Eva Maria Cano Lopez. Madrid, Spain
205) Emilio Ruiz Olivar, Londres, UK
206) Maru Ortega Garcia del Moral, CALAHORRA, ESPANA
207) Juan Carlos Ayala, Calvo, Logroo, Spain
208) Rocco Muoz Pino, Logroo, Espana
209) Ximena Pino Burgos, Santiago, Chile
210) Roberto Saldivia Quezada, Santiago, Chile
211) Paola Gonzalez Valderrama, Santiago, Chile
212) Cesar Morales Pey Lillo, Santiago, Chile
213) Denisse Labarca Abdala , Santiago, Chile
214) Maria Paz Gonzalez Garay, Chile
215) Daniela Millar Kaiser, Santiago, Chile
216) Alvaro Wigand Perales, Valdivia, Chile
217) Gladys Bustos Carrasco, Quilicura, Chile
218) Patricio Criado Rivera, Quilicura, Chile
219) Carolina Aguilar Monsalve, Valdivia, Chile
220) Carmen Silva Utrilla, Madrid, Espana
221) Martha Yolanda Rodriguez Aviles,Queretaro, Mexico
222) LAURA RODRIGUEZ, Mexico
223) KATIA HAHN , MERIDA, YUCATAN
224) [Sofia Gallego] Mexicali, B.C., Mexico
225) BEATRIZ CASTA, Mexico
226) VICTOR KERBER PALMA,Monterrey, Mexico
227) Rocco Sanchez Losada, Mexico
228) Lorenza Estanda Gonzalez Luna, Mexico
229) Gabriel Gallardo D'Aiuto,Mexico D.F., Mexico
230) Jose Antonio Salinas, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico
231) Laura Cantu, Mty N.L., Mexico
232) Jossie Garcia, Mty N.L., Mexico
233) Martha Vazquez Gonzalez, Mty, N.L., Mexico
234) Olga Moreno, Monterrey, NL, Mexico
235) Mariana Camargo, Pto. Vallarta, Jal, Mexico
236) Alfonso Villa, Toluca, Mexico
237) Arturo Rodriguez Reyes, Toluca, Edo Mexico, MEXICO
238) Fernanda Villela, Mexico D.F., MEXICO
239) Pilar Jim=C8nez, Caracas, VENEZUELA
240) Erika Rovelo, Mexico D.F., MEXICO
241) ALEJANDRO LECANDA, CIUDAD DE MEXICO, MEXICO
242) Gabriela Diaz de Sandi, Cd. Mexico, Mexico
243) Jorge Bustamante Orgaz, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
244) Jose Bernardo Rodriguez Montes, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
245) Luisa Angela Ario Pelez. Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
246) Ramses Ricardo Rios Zaragoza, CD de Mexico
247) Rosa Mara Lamparero. Ciudad de Mexico
248) Margarita Palomares, Ciudad de Mexico, MEXICO
249) Carlos Anaya. MEXICO
250) Enrique Garcia Menes, Mexico
251) Loren Walker, USA
252) Teresa Mathern, Oregon, USA
253) Linda K. Johnson, Oregon, USA
254) Jennifer Allen, New York City, USA
255) Carla Rudiger, New York City, USA
256) Colleen THomas, New York City, USA
257) Ted Johnson, New York City, USA
258) Youn Hui Jeon, Seoul, South Korea
259) Wendy Perron, New York City, USA
260) Risa Jaroslow, New York City, USA
261) Pam Wise, Los Angeles, USA
262) Michael Joyce, New York, USA
263) Bernadine Colish, New York, USA
264) Kent Lebsock, Albuquerque, NM, USA
265) Charmaine White Face, Lakota Nation
266) Pauline Brooks, Cornwall, England
267) Peter Brooks, Cornwall, England
268) Jan Bogaert, Maldegem, Belgium
269) Marc Brailly, Blankenberge, Belgium
270) Sara De Backere, Blankenberge, Belgium
271) YTska Brailly, Blankenberge, Belgium
272) Nemo Braily, Blankenberge, Belgium
273) Viviane Ceulemans, Heist o/d Berg, Belgium
274) Nina de Bruyne, Brugge, Belgium
275) Sjefke Dooms, Breda, Netherlands
276) Frans Fransaer, Moorsel, Belgium
277) Agnes Abramsen, Brussels, Belgium
278) Dany De Man, Meulebeke, Belgium
279) Patrick Beirnaert, Ronse, Belgium
280) Caroline Grauls, Ronse, Belgium
281) Jacques Bisschop, Leke, Belgium
282) Marianne Blom, Rozenburg, Netherlands
283) Jan Geeraerts, Duffel, Belgium
284) Hel! en Buys, Oudenaarde, Belgium
285) Marc Corvers, Zwevegem, Belgium
286) Ann Labeeuw, Zwevegem, Belgium
287) Frans De Smedt, Hame-Moerzeke, Belgium
288) Aline-Irini Georgiou, Vorselaar, Belgium
289) Chris Peeters, Turnhout, Belgium
290) Tom Van Snick, Zottegem, Belgium
291) Marc Van Wunsel, Wespelare, Belgium
292) Carlos Goedertier, Bottelare-Merelbeke, Belgium
293) Mieke Lammens, Grazen, Belgium
294) Guido Festraets, Grazen, Belgium
295) Kathleen Quirijnen, Vosselaar, Belgium
296) Peter Van Peer, Vosselaar, Belgium
297) Carine Vermeulen, Gent, Belgium
298) Peter Verwimp, Tremelo, Belgium
299) Filip Vissers, Herentals, Belgium
300) Carine Van Wolputte, Herentals, Belgium
301) Vanessa Lecomte, Bruxelles, Belgium
302) Fabienne Havelange, Thuillies, Belgium
303) Claudine Aubert, Estaimpuis, Belgium
304) Leon Degueldre, Thuin, Belgium
305) Pascal Javaloy, Sarralbe, France
306) Martine Roulet, Tours, France
307) Carol A. Bentley, Wales
308) Jean Daines, Norwich, England
309) Julie Gillott, Norfolk, England
310) Christine Hewitt, Burnley, Lancs., England
311) Val Linsey, Swnasea, England
312) Rita Brauner, London, England
313) Ray Foord, Woodford Green, England
314) Sheryl I. Birch, Buxton, England
315) Anne Grecian, Berwick upon Tweed, England
316) Les G. Jones, Kent, England
317) Julie Lynex, Coventry, W.Midands, England
318) Margaret Nicholl, Enfield, England
319) Ian Moore, Norfolk, England
320) Ron Reardon, Spalding, Lincs. England
321) Muriel Reardon, Spalding, Lincs. England
322) Susan E. Naylor, Cornwall, England
323) Alec H. Moon, Gwent, Wales
324) Shirley Wayne, Wantage, Oxon., England
325) Denis Underwood, Bracknell, Berks., England
326) Lotta Haglund, Vaxholm, Sweden
327) Essi Iso-Oja, Helsinki, Finland
328) Sabine Pohl, Baden-Baden, Germany
329) Richard Ziegler, Eurasburg Loisachtal, Germany
330) Poul Kry Poulsen, Ringsted, Denmark
331) Suzanne Hone, Brussels, Belgium
332) Ann Herten, Sterrebeek, Belgium
333) Els Herten, Brussels, Belgium
334) antoinette claypoole, Ashland, Oregon, USA
335) Linda Griffith, Huntingdon Valley, Pa USA
336) David L. Winston, Philadelphia, PA USA
337) Joan Franklin, Philadelphia, PA USA
338) Marianne Malitz, Connecticut, USA
339) Kathy O'Rear, Oklahoma, USA
340) Jodie Evans, Venice, CA, USA
341) Georgia Kelly, Sonoma, CA, USA
342) Larry Robinson, Sebastopol, CA, USA
343) Maury M. Cooper, San Francisco, CA, USA
344) R. Glendon Brunk, Arizona, USA
345) D. Douglas Dancer, Oregon, USA
346) Randall E. Streets, Hood River, Oregon, USA
347) Chandra Radiance, Hood River, Oregon, USA
348) Mary Harmon, White Salmon, WA, USA
349) Jean Fay Harmon, Neskowin, OR, USA
350) Julie Reynolds-Otrugman, Lincoln City, OR, USA
351) Sener Otrugman, Lincoln City, OR, USA
352) Mary Lyn Villaume, Cairo, Egypt
353) Christian Arandel, Cairo, Egypt
354) Dania Rifai, Beirut, Lebanon
355) Nada Awar, Beirut, Lebanon
356) Mouna Schaheen, Olney, MD, USA
357) Nabiha Ayoub, Olney, MD, USA
358) Habeeb Zein, Olney, MD, USA
359) Norah Greenstein, New York, NY, USA
360) Audrey Shahin, Ashtabula, OH, USA
361) Vishali Shahin Oakland Ca, USA
362) Elena Wood, Syracuse, NY, USA
363) Steven Wood, Syracuse, NY, USA
364) Barry Kapke, Petaluma, CA, USA
365) Ann Mari Spector, Petaluma, CA, USA
366) Jim Berns, Sebastopol, CA, USA
367) Beth Gallock, Sebastopol, CA, USA
368) Maikaaloa Clarke, CA USA
369) DeAnna L'am, Sebastopol, Ca, USA
370) Julian Shaw, Sebastopol, CA, USA
371) Katya Miller, Santa Fe, NM, USA
372) Vij! ali Hamilton, Castle Valley, Utah, USA
373) Andrew Beath, Malibu, CA, USA
374) Rebecca Dmytryk, CA, USA
375) Jeffrey Ellis, CA USA
376) Norman Gan, Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
377) Tom Greening, Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
378) Marianne Bentzen, Charlottenlund, Denmark
379) Judyth O. Weaver, Mill Valley, Ca, USA
380) David W. Arehart, Lawrence, KS, USA
381) Kay Foley, Columbia, MO, USA
382) Jan Lysaght, Columbia, MO, USA
383) Mine Ezashi, Columbia, MO, USA
384) Toshihiko Ezashi, Columbia, MO, USA
385) Nobuko Kainuma, CA, USA
386) Karen Leonard, Ireland
387) Kevin Murphy, Ireland
388) Stephanie Kohl, Ireland/Germany
389) Marcel Kostyal, NRW, Germany
390) Florent Didier, Troyes, France
391) Diepart, Sandrine, Brussels, Belgium
392) Marianne Putteman, Gent, Belgium
393) Xavier Bastiaense, Ghent, Belgium
394) Hans Gelaude, Ghent, Belgium
395) Mamoudou Guissé, Belgium
396) Inne Geypen, Brussels, Belgium
397) Guy Cordeel, Beveren, Belgium
398) Veerle Decante, Beveren, Belgium
399) Lucienne Goormans, Beveren, Belgium
400) Marc Van Molle, Londerzeel, Belgium
401) Martine Gheysen, Machelen, Belgium
402) Marie-Anne Straetmans, Belgium
403) W. Patrick De Wilde, Huldenberg, Belgium
404) José Depuydt, Belgium
405) Anne De Smet, Belgium
406) Mark Hongenaert, Leuven, Belgium
407) Bart Feyaerts, Schriek, Belgium
408) Ann Van Meldert, Houthalen, Belgium
409) Kristien Coussement, Kessel-lo, Belgium
410) Griet Van Impe, Holsbeek, Belgium
411) Filip De Bodt, Herzele, Belgium
412) Marnix Schollaert,Herzele,Belgium
413) Tilly Jacobs, ronse, Belgium
414) Eric Devisscher, Hasselt, Belgium
415) Linda Bollen, Hasselt, Belgium
416) Guy Steegmans, Antwerpen, Belgium
417) Lucie Spranghers, Gent, Belgium!
418) Geert Colpaert, Gent, Belgium
419) Nard Besseling, Spijkenisse, The Netherlands
420) Hanneke Wiegers, Groet, The Netherlands
421) Martin Wanzenried, Schiedam, The Netherlands
422) Monique Lansdorp, Utrecht, The Netherlands
423) Rajyashree Ramamurthi, UK
424) Colin Waurzyniak, UK
423) Sophie McDonald, Southampton, UK
424) Ele Carpenter, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
425) Jeff Price Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
426) Louise Hepworth, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
427) Toby Lowe, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
428) Bernie Dodds, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
429) Jeff Cleverly, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
430) Xenia Beliayeva, Hamburg, Germany
431) Mark Moore, London, UK
432) Pascal Gabriel, London, UK
433) Val Boyko, Wayne, PA, USA
434) Hilary Reynell, Raleigh, NC, USA
435) Jackie Benton, Raleigh, NC, USA
436) Sarah Marom NYC NY,USA
437) Nancy Bellamy Upper St. Clair, PA, USA
438) Rose Lord, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
439) Eszter Szabo, Bethesda, MD, USA
440) James H. Kleiger, Bethesda, MD, USA
441) Mary Jo Peebles-Kleiger, Bethesda, MD, USA
442) Peggy Osna Heller, Potomac, MD, USA
443) Kenneth Gorelick, Washington, DC, USA
444) Cheryl Opacinch, Washington, DC, USA
445) Dorothy Gail, Washington, DC, USA
446) Deana Abramowitz, Santa Rosa, CA, USA
447) Liora Brosbe, Santa Rosa, CA, USA
448) Jeffrey R. Brosbe, San Diego, USA
449) James Newkirk, Salem, Or., USA
450) Jeri Fortier, San Diego, CA, USA
451) Naomi Norberg, Paris, France
452) Fabien Tuizat, Paris, France
453) Sophie Clercy,Paris, France
454) Christiane Groschêne, Paris, France
455) Jean Pierre Sikias, Beirut, Lebanon
456) Roula Safi, Beirut, Lebanon
457) May Aoun, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
458) Jun D.Capati, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
459! ) Maricar S. Amio, Philippines
460) Pia A. Magalona, Philippines
461) Myla C. Gaya, Philippines
462) Francis Magalona, Antipolo City,Rizal 1870, Philippines
463) Unna A., Philippines
464) Norbelle D. Santiago, Philippines
465) mae diola, Philippines
466) Bianca Zapanta, Philippines
467) marian hernandez, Philippines
468) Olivia R. Cruz, Philippines
469) Paola G. Francisco, Philippines
470) Arvin D. De Mesa, Philippines
471) Buena Grace Aquino, Philippines
472) Anna-Liza Alitagtag, Philippines
473) Mary Vivien G. Alcasabas, Manila- Philippines
474) Rica G. Zaldivar, Manila Philippines
475) Choppy G. Quiocho, Manila Philippines
476) Debbie Ann M. Gomez, Manila Philippines
477) Peter Paul A. Soliva, Cavite, PHILIPPINES
478) Gustpearl N. Tulagan, Pasay City, Philippines
479) Norman Vincent A. Baguisa, Manila, Philippines
480) Fernando, Philippines
481) AVILES, COZUMEL, QUINTANAROO, MEXICO
482) Ritzie J. Banzon - Makati, Philippines
483) Hazel P. Villonco - Makati, Philippines
484) Obregon.Vitoria-Gasteiz. Espana
485) Clarissa Magno Cua - Cupertino, CA, USA
486) Deanna Lamb - Cupertino, CA, USA
487) Graham Snyder - Cupertino, CA, USA
488) Leslie Zieren - San Jose, CA, USA
489) Wendy DAVIS - Tulsa, Ok. USA
490) Deborah Perry - Tulsa, OK, USA
491) James West - Tulsa, OK, USA
492) Janet Niemeyer - Bixby, OK, USA
493) Martin Niemeyer - Bixby, OK, USA
494) Becky Raymond - Dallas, TX, USA
495) Alice Ruffel - Dallas, TX, USA
496) James Skipper - Dallas, TX USA
497) Scott Tyrrell, Manchester, UK
498) Maryse Koll, Belgium
499) Marta Truno i Salvado, Barcelona, Catalonia
500) Marilyn Sutherland, Dallas TX USA
501) Marek J, (His body living and breathing in Dallas, TX USA)

Bonzo spoken here

''...most American writers have lost the ability to even think politically, or nationally, or internationally. In all the anthologies and magazines devoted to 9/11 and its aftermath, nearly every single writer resorted to first-person anecdote: "It reminded me of the day my father died..." "I took an herbal bath and decided to call an old boyfriend..."Barely a one could imagine the event outside of the context of the prison cell of their own expressive self. (Or, on the avant-garde, it was a little too real for ironic pastiche from their expressive non-self.)

''We are where we are in part because American writers-- supposedly the most articulate members of society-- have generally had nothing to say about the world for the last 30 years. How many of those 8000 poets have ever been to a Third World country (excluding beach vacations)? How many think it worthwhile to translate something? How many can name a single contemporary poet, not living in the U.S., from Latin America or Africa or Asia? In short, how many know anything more about the world than George Bush knows?

''After thirty years of self-absorption in MFA and MLA career-mongering and knee-jerk demography and the personal as political and the impersonal as poetical, American writers now have the government we deserve. We were good Germans under Reagan and Bush I; we were never able to separate Clinton's person from his policies and gave him a complacent benefit of the doubt; and the result is Cheney and Rumsfeld and Ashcroft and Perle and Wolfowitz and Scalia and Rice and their little president. They can't be stopped, but I do think they can be slowed down.'' Eliot Weinberger. Statement for "Poetry is News" conference, St. Mark's Poetry Project, NYC, 1 February 2003

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Are on-topic posts still allowed? Did I fix the fonts this time? This template is a rats nest.

YOU DO NOW PAYNTER

everyone's a fucking comedian over on this blog, so what's one more administrator. please, fix the main font somehow--bump it up a couple points?

I'M TOO OLD TO READ SHIT THIS SMALL.

speaking of which, fishrush is a fucking genius.

and Turner's no slouch either.

although we're pretty smart too. for administrators.

frank I saw your book review over on blog critics--what, you're too good for us? aaaaaaaaah!

woof.

i'D fIX THE fONTS

BUt i heff no edmin privledges

On the Road Again

This week in Green Bay and Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Something Spooky up here. They have German language TV. Spreching of which, watch for my review of "The Spooky Art" coming in first draft to Sandhill Trek, and in a draft more polished to Blog Critics. And let's all wish Norman Mailer a happy 80th birthday tomorrow. Are you down with that Germaine?

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Oops

Sorry - my fault when I turned the black background off again. Is this better?

teeny tiny fonts

okay, who made the font so tiny around here--the title and left nav bar font is outta control small. see what happens, you make everyone an administrator and the place rolls into chaos. YEAH BABE!

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No I am George Walker Bush and my rectum hurts because I had to wear chaps at the ranch last week when I mounted that old mare--don't worry, my wife Barbara, oh dang I mean Laura, didn't mind. Ya'll need to put an undo button in this blogger thing because when I clicked on the text I wrote it plum disappeared.

About that oil. Yes I like oil. My wife Barbara, I mean larua, makes some nice garden salad with oil and vinegar and so I'm not afraid to kill for oil.

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HOW ABOUT THAT BORING FUCKING SUPERBOWLZzzzzzzzzzzzzz

i have absolutely nothing to contribute this evening.

but i wish someone would fix the font back up nice and tidy.

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ya'll take care, yahear?