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2007: AN APPRECIATION
Jan. 2nd, 2008 05:56 pmTime to fill out the old Year End Bloggery Review meme, and in the usual fashion, I shall exceed my mandate by posting the first AND last headline/first sentence of each month.
PRODUCTION NOTE: Entries from January to October 2007 glommed from the 1.0 version of this blog, which, you’ll recall, was shut down by DHS agents.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: All up, 2007 wasn’t that great a year. Two deaths in the family, money issues, a challenging work situation and That Incident at work that resulted in the blog change. Plus, my first presidential bid wasn’t as successful as I’d hoped – I think even Al Goldstein was polling higher than me by the end.
And I still haven’t achieved my goal of becoming the most influential novelist since William Gibson.
And of course, Planet Earth continued to spiral down the Fear Drain, thanks in no small part to Republicans living in an alternate reality, and Democrats being too polite to tell them this to their face. War, torture, fear, wiretapping, border fences, school shootings, fear, tasers, steroids, Creation science, and the whereabouts of Britney Spears’ panties – that was 2007, mostly. What fun!
Or am I being too negative? Maybe. But when you’ve reached the point where pie is a suspected weapon, using laser pointers can get you arrested, Creation science claims man once co-habited with dinosaurs, the RIAA says that if you make one copy of a song for yrself, yr a criminal, and the biggest albums of 2007 are from Disney TV soundtracks, game show contestants and Nickelback, I think I’m entitled.
Meanwhile, here in 2008, Team Bush will still be in charge of the free world, the Democrats will still be spineless, and the news media will still be run by the sort of people who run Dateline. So not much to look forward to. Unless you thrive on outrage and run a blog. Then it’s going to be a productive 12 months.
I think I’m turning into George Carlin, personally. I think I’m going to reach a point where I just decide to cancel my membership to the human race, sit back and just enjoy the show – and blog the highlights.
Or maybe I’ll just keep posting YouTube videos and sex robot innovations. Always in motion is the future.
Better luck next year,
This is dF
PRODUCTION NOTE: Entries from January to October 2007 glommed from the 1.0 version of this blog, which, you’ll recall, was shut down by DHS agents.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: All up, 2007 wasn’t that great a year. Two deaths in the family, money issues, a challenging work situation and That Incident at work that resulted in the blog change. Plus, my first presidential bid wasn’t as successful as I’d hoped – I think even Al Goldstein was polling higher than me by the end.
And I still haven’t achieved my goal of becoming the most influential novelist since William Gibson.
And of course, Planet Earth continued to spiral down the Fear Drain, thanks in no small part to Republicans living in an alternate reality, and Democrats being too polite to tell them this to their face. War, torture, fear, wiretapping, border fences, school shootings, fear, tasers, steroids, Creation science, and the whereabouts of Britney Spears’ panties – that was 2007, mostly. What fun!
Or am I being too negative? Maybe. But when you’ve reached the point where pie is a suspected weapon, using laser pointers can get you arrested, Creation science claims man once co-habited with dinosaurs, the RIAA says that if you make one copy of a song for yrself, yr a criminal, and the biggest albums of 2007 are from Disney TV soundtracks, game show contestants and Nickelback, I think I’m entitled.
Meanwhile, here in 2008, Team Bush will still be in charge of the free world, the Democrats will still be spineless, and the news media will still be run by the sort of people who run Dateline. So not much to look forward to. Unless you thrive on outrage and run a blog. Then it’s going to be a productive 12 months.
I think I’m turning into George Carlin, personally. I think I’m going to reach a point where I just decide to cancel my membership to the human race, sit back and just enjoy the show – and blog the highlights.
Or maybe I’ll just keep posting YouTube videos and sex robot innovations. Always in motion is the future.
Better luck next year,
This is dF
