Jealous Ones Still Envy
The current president of the American Library Association is apparently none too fond of blogs:
"Blog People (or their subclass who are interested in computers and the glorification of information) have a fanatical belief in the transforming power of digitization and a consequent horror of, and contempt for, heretics who do not share that belief... Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs."
I'd be laughing if it didn't hit so close to home.....
Never made it to Barstow
The news today is almost unbearably sad.
I can't remember the exact quote, which is strangley appropriate, but in a letter to the Clintons over the suicide of Vince Foster, HST once wrote something like:
"I know what it's like to have a piece of you ripped off and sent screaming into the void"
indeed.
RIP Hunter S Thompson. I wish it didn't feel like the screwheads are winning.