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Mexico: How Safe is it?
Sounds fun! Well, then--maybe that's how we should 'do lunch' sometime ;)— January 9, 2010 1:04 p.m.
Weld Paddy's Mental Web
and Pete is having "Captain Kirk" short-out issues. We expect him to return to normal functioning in a moment :)— January 9, 2010 11:50 a.m.
Hobnobbing at the Hob Nob
oopsy: "fascist"— January 9, 2010 12:22 a.m.
Hobnobbing at the Hob Nob
But that's just it--the Reader (happily) isn't wholly identified with its owner's politics, and maybe partly Brizz's point when he scratched his head, wondering what his own politics were--the Reader is just not one thing or another. I'm hard pressed to pin it down, because happily, it's so far been let to pasture, to graze here and there without becoming too fond of one point of view. I hope it stays that way. I have always appreciated that European cities tend to have at least one each of a leftist, a central, and a conservative-right paper, but it is nice to just have a paper to blog on where one can be political or no, whenever s/he desires. I think of it mostly as a neighborhood corner cafe, just a place to chat. --Not like that fasist Hob Nob of the uniformly beige food! ;)— January 9, 2010 12:22 a.m.
Weld Paddy's Mental Web
PS: That's an awefully cute poem at #12. ;)— January 9, 2010 12:09 a.m.
Weld Paddy's Mental Web
Hey, wish I'd appeared back here, first ;) Never mind the 'real' world, there are some strange things afoot around this site, peeps...— January 9, 2010 12:07 a.m.
Invisible
I would like to echo all sentiments above, and add along with #2, wow! You have written this blog without a single error, so you must be very focused on whatever you do. This is a great skill in life, and it is a shame for someone with your communication skills (and clearly, needs) to be invisible! "I shall remain anonymous until the day someone figures me out so I can write more candidly." Or: If you decide to reveal yourself, maybe we will all meet you for coffee sometime. How's that? :)— January 8, 2010 11:29 p.m.
Mexico: How Safe is it?
Ditto. When I go to Baja for lunch with my friend, I appreciate not seeing phobic, fearful tourists turkeynecking around :)— January 8, 2010 11:20 p.m.
None
I'm sure this has got to be among the top five dumbest discussions of Beatles' lyrics, ever. :) Have you guys considered that the Beatles wrote creative lyrics to match fleeting emotional states, and in a jazz-like fashion, like scatting? That the lyrics matter less than how they sync audibly with the innovative way the Beatles strung together melodies and harmonic shifts?— January 8, 2010 5:09 p.m.
Hobnobbing at the Hob Nob
Yep, you're right, refried. This person probably had some idea of "The Reader" in her head, and reacted to it. The scary part is that apparently there are those out there who think the Reader is identifiable as a left-wing paper (she could not possibly have thought it was right-wing, because it could not have been right-wing enough for her--remember, this is the HOB NOB, of nursing home food and elderly, reactionary politics).— January 8, 2010 4:27 a.m.