Posted by: wordbeeps on: June 23, 2010
Ironic that of all publications, Rolling Stone magazine can bring down a general. The killer quote can indeed kill. The article, written by a features writer, not a news reporter, and one obviously unfamiliar but fascinated with the testosterone-laden, disdainful, and by necessity over-confident world of senior military staff, was also as obviously deeply embedded [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: June 21, 2010
BBC news reports a gang in El Salvador torched a passenger bus, killing 14. My sister-in-law, Nancy, a garment factory worker from the Philippines, rose to management from sewing machine labours in Honduras and Nicaragua. Part of her management assignments, liaise with sister factories, at least one in El Salvador. Provided a car, she drove [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: June 21, 2010
Too bad I lost those dozen or so followers on Twitter. Hard not to notice the spike in readership. This modest blog had its best readership during the American presidential election when people were desperate for information, any information, on Sara Palin. Best day about 300 hits. Not anyone’s readership numbers to envy, certainly, but [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: June 21, 2010
Now I can truly be called a “Twit” on Twitter. For that story, my reply to Diana Gallardo, kind enough to inquire in comments about the sudden loss of aardvarkcola from the Twitter landscape, is provided below, as an only slightly edited duplicate of my reply to her. “Ah, Diana, so kind of you to [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: June 14, 2010
To me Twitter was 10 trillion boorish announcements, millions more spouting every second, of what some Twit was eating at that moment. (I’m eating a ham sandwhich! Yum!) Cyberspace, like the Gulf of Mexico, polluted with oily black Twitter plumes no one could cap. I’ve had a change of heart. Twitter is poetry. Concisely penned [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: June 13, 2010
Notwithstanding the excellent film, Bend It Like Beckham, which, I understand was a pure love story, ball meets girl, there is no game but hockey. Soccer just does not have the balls. They are similar. In both games there is a goalie. There is also a face off of sorts. In both games the object [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: June 3, 2010
Just a quick thought since I’m thinking about it. Boycott BP, yell, scream, write your congressman, write angry letters, or like the airhead blonde on The View say Kevin Costner can plug the hole, why can’t BP. Here’s the bottom line. If you drove to work today, if you flew anywhere in the past year, [...]
