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Mushrooms & Manure, Jeez Louise
AG, sweetness, hope you are feeling better this evening ;) Again, you know I am very sorry to hear about what happened with your neighbor--refresh my memory, was it the north County VA, the one at UCSD, that failed him? I've heard great things about the research and the capabilities of that facility, but what terrible ironies to hear that actual patient care gets lost in the bureaucratic shuffle, to the extent that people lose their lives while waiting for life-saving procedures and necessary prosthetics or durable medical equipment. Pete, we know you are probably going to come in and make what is, for you, the "requisite" comment about bureaucratic healthcare, but what do you propose? A twisted kind of Darwinism, by which no one gets care unless s/he can pay exorbitant prices for it? Pay or fall by the wayside? You have to know that's no solution.-- And btw, why don't I ever hear you protest the costs of medical care from a patient's viewpoint?— February 3, 2010 6:45 p.m.
Mushrooms & Manure, Jeez Louise
"Like, “jeez-o-Pete,” a favorite of Grandma Alice and maybe Jeez Louise’s boyfriend. Pete also stands in for God in “for Pete’s sake!”" So Pete, or should I say, 'my Lord,' how's the GF, Jeez Louise? Since you do have a job after all, how come you haven't made that slogan on my t-shirt, "Jesus is my Health Insurance," come true, yet?— February 3, 2010 6:38 p.m.
The Measure of Success
My two cents: (too broke to offer many dimes for Starbucks :) Once you start a blog, it becomes the domain of the collective--of all of the people together who contribute to it. Sure, you can take on a moderator's position if you like, but it isn't really necessary, unless you're a stickler for staying on topic. I like to consider myself as at first, the 'owner,' who is complimented by others who bring the gift of connection to a space I carved out in the blogosphere. But rather quickly, I am happy to morph into just a fellow contributor, the only difference between myself and other commenters being that I started the blog, if not the thread, chose the topic, and set the tone. Now it is up to the public to jump in and have fun with it, and the greatest fun for me in all of it is to just see where it goes, and what people make of it together. It is now beyond me, and bigger than me; it will grow, change, mature and cure, and hopefully, will provide some lasting intellectual sustenance or deeply quenching humor to me and others. I do believe the best blogs are organic products of loosely formed groups of commenters, and represent the work of thinking and connecting, tearing apart and rebuilding. This is why I am taken aback at the practice of pulling threads, the thought of which never even occurred to me until recently. After all of the time put in, and the work of intellect, sense of humor, personality and perhaps even courageous expression of emotion--all of the human effort that has played out on these pages--to have that just disappear at the whim of a single person, even if s/he started the blog, just makes it seem not worth the while. I like to think of a blog thread as something not subject to the elements; it stands there in the rain or sun like a public monument upon which someone may come and inscribe something years down the road, reacting to the words of people who might have different opinions now, in a new job or city, or passed on. It sits there at the crossroads, with the evidence of a myriad of egos inscribed on its surface, yet open to whomever might stop and read, and perhaps contribute further to its history of connection and variation. In short, I suppose I am considering it as a form of literature.— February 3, 2010 5:05 p.m.
What keeps you up at night?
Intense pain.— February 3, 2010 3:18 p.m.
None
If this is a planned piece, what the heck happened with the editing and page formatting--terrible?! "My secret I like getting dressed to music." Bolding does not help the fact that this is still a mangled sentence. Colon, anyone? ;)— February 3, 2010 3:17 p.m.
CCDC and other disappointments
Uh, Pete,'semantics' isn't something you can escape, unless you are planning to start speaking "dog" or "seal." ;) When you tell auntsd "YOU made YOUR bed, now lie in it" it seems like useless ire--and she already told you that none of that stuff was there decades ago when she moved in. Plus, you've said it. What's with the repetition? So she is active against zoning certain things in her area? So what. Listen, folks, at least she isn't JUST complaining; she goes to meetings, she looks up zoning laws, and generally just gets involved--right? This is the impression I get, auntsd, so correct me if I am wrong. Anyway, that's also life in the city--people fighting zoning laws, and fighting to get or revoke licenses of all kinds, for different reasons. It is just the way it goes--everyone angling to have a say in it, and affect what happens. Putting someone down for getting into all that--again--just makes no sense.— February 3, 2010 3:11 p.m.
Hexagonic dining
Seriously, a person should be able to take occasional advantage of Restaurant Week, right? :) Hey auntsd, sounds like you are savvy, then--it's the fact that you seemed to expect warm bread that led me to believe you just didn't know that is not the norm... Yes, thanks for addressing the homeless issue, and I can understand your feelings about fear and empathy--so so true. it's really too bad the aggressive crowd moved into your area, and I hope they find other places to drink and carouse soon--a population referred to as "transient" for a reason ;)— February 3, 2010 2:44 p.m.
Welcome another friend: Brad
Lovin' me some Granty, to-day.... ! ;)— February 2, 2010 3:06 p.m.
Wall Street is feasting off Main Street’s pain
re: #138: No points for confusing my prospectus with an essay. re: #144: No, no, Zen was the just the fun-loving little sometime mistress of Byron, and in less funner times, of de Stael at salon. Her foremost duty was to keep a placid mien before Madame, and almost as important, attend that the opium pipes were at all times full and sticky.— February 2, 2010 2:55 p.m.
Hobnobbing at the Hob Nob
re: #18: Lord, Eric, I need to do that thing I said I would. Will write.— February 2, 2010 11:15 a.m.