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2005-06-02 - 11:53 a.m. all photos � 2005 by Elaine Radford
If you're one of the people who searched for my site because of the discussion elsewhere on the internets about the Famous Writer who showed his ass, and you're wondering if I'm going to post my essay from the mid-1980s where I twitted him a little for his asshattery, well, I'm still thinking about that one. It seems a bit superfluous for me to jump back into the fray, when the internet has given the Famous Writer such an excellent forum for showing himself for what he is in his own words. For those of you who have no idea of what I'm blithering about, apparently the Famous Writer took advantage of the recent Star Wars frenzy to blog a little blog saying the Jedi Knights were the bad guys and the forces of the dark side were the good guys, and there was something of a shitstorm in a teapot in my absence. Yeah, and my name was apparently mentioned as sort of a Lone Nut Proclaimer of Truth Finally Justified After All These Years and Beers but should I charge in and spout off, and or should I just fold my arms and let it all be? Back in the day, this self-proclaimed Darth Vader was pretending to be on the side of Truth and Light, and he had a little troop of uncritical followers that I noticed bullying another writer, so I felt more obligated to speak out back then. To give credit where, Norman Spinrad also spoke out, and powerfully, but he had a dog in the hunt, as he was actually in competition with Mr. Vader. But there sure weren't many of us pointing out the lack of clothes on the young emperor. These days, with Famous Writer being out of the closet about being on the Dark Side and loudly trumpeting his pro-war, thud, and blunder position from his very own blog...I just don't see how I can possibly improve on perfection. later Damn, I'm good. Er, no, I didn't yet write up the Kyoto trip report but it's coming, it's coming. At the moment I'm very pleased with myself because I went shopping for dinner and picked up a pound of steak, some honey-thick barbeque sauce, and a Vidalia onion. Grand total after my coupons -- 16 cents. Beat that with a stick, why don't you? The vegetables were too high, but that's OK, because I'm going to be serving kale from the garden alongside the steaks currently marinating in their teriyaki sauce. Hummingbird Report: I put the feeders back up yesterday, and by evening, a female/immature RTHU had found the back one.
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