It simply isn’t

A few days ago I wrote a short post which later developed into a longer post. It went:

Steven Levy asks: “Since anyone can write a Weblog, why is the blogosphere dominated by white males?”

My answer: Because it isn’t.’

That was all and then later I started ranting why he didn’t go out and ask Anil, or Dooce, and Rachel and Firda, or Salam Pax and other Iraqi and Iranian bloggers, the entire country of Brazil, etc. etc. And then I was done ranting and I deleted the post. Which is just as well, because Derek as usual expresses himself a lot better than I can. Go read Powazek: The Big Mirror.

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Blake goes on the road

Scoundrel cum poet Robert Blake after his ‘not guilty‘ verdict:

After the verdict, he said he needed to find a job but would first go “cowboying.”

“Cowboying is when you get in a motor home or a van and you just let the air blow in your hair,” he said. “And you wind up in some little bar in Arizona someplace, and you shoot a game of one-hand nine-ball with some 90-year-old Portuguese woman that beats the hell out of you.

“And the next day you wind up in a park someplace playing chess with somebody, and you go see a high school play where they’re doing ‘West Side Story.’

“And you just roam around and get some revitalization, that there are human beings in the world, that there are people living their lives that have no agenda.”

Maybe he could write a book about it all.

(Nobody knows who Robert Blake is anymore. I’m the oldest at work and in my circle of friends. It means that nobody remembers the stuff I grew up with. In fact, they don’t know or remember stuff they should have grown up with. Lately that’s making me a little sad.)

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