What kind of week was it? It was hopefully the last glimpse of a skim of
snow. It has been a fairly optimistic week otherwise with lots of contact with
old friends over the internet, planning a summer reunion in Halifax at the end
of July. But what else has the internet done for me lately?
- Update#2: Just remembered that I forgot to remember to post about hearing Perry F. Rockwood on “The People’s Gospel Hour” this week on 1170 AM WWVA Wheeling, West Virginia while I was hunting for baseball. It is a Nova Scotia produced radio evangelical program seemngly on every station everywhere on the Maritime Canadian AM dial when I was a kid. I thought I had
bloggedposted before the soft spot I have for Perry’s voice and his pronunciation of “Boston, Massachusetts” at the end of every broadcast but I cannot find that reference via a search. So much for the internet. Good news! Perry is 88 and going strong. - Update: Iggy
might get me to vote Liberal for the first time ever. - Mr. Harper is having a first brush with reality, needing now to debate the
Afghanistan
mission, having to pull back a
contract to an insider on accountability policy of all things and generally
having to put a decade worth of puffery to the test. He is doing reasonably well
but any claims to sightings the second coming of anyone’s Messiah are
pre-mature. His tendency to secrecy and making up reasons for the things he does
out of the air are going to get to be as annoying as his love of junior
micro-management. He is not the only clever guy in the sandbox but at least he
is a change and a keener. There is much good in hiring a keener. - It’s been a hard week for the creationists and Biblical literalists among
you so there will be a round on the progressive faithful at happy hour today –
soda pops for thems that want them, the good stuff for thems that need it.
First, a
transitional fossil has been found linking our fishy forefathers to our
monkey-like ones. I’ve never had a big problem with the scaley and tail-y past
we share and suspect God has a good giggle at the trashing about people do to
figure out what is what. I think reference to The Book of Job is
instructive wherein the Creator took one of us aside and said “Huh? You think I
tell you all the good stuff?” Then there was the
Book of Judas finding. Seeing as the Deas Sea scrolls were found in some guy’s tinder pile as
he was stoking the flames of another fire under the bubbling stew pot for his
family ‘s dinner, it should come as no surprise that there are loads of
alternate versions out there. So raise a glass in commisseration for the
fundamentalists whose fundamentals got a little shifty this week. Pray hoist ye,
bruvvers and sistahs! - Has anyone started podcasting lately? I am feeling more and more that as
bloggy text is actually solidifying as a hobby, podcasts are going the way of
ham radio – nerdy and little understood. But it is not in the nature of the web
to analyze what it likes to call its lesser successes. What people may be
realizing is simply the difference in effort required to control text as opposed
to sound. And podcasting needs a public success. After all, all of bloggy
legitimacy has centered on one event, the great whoop-tee-doo of the firing of
Dan Rather. Podcasting needs its similar Jimmy’s-in-the-well moment. It has yet
to come. - Finally, I know someone who has had a windfall. I won’t tell you who or what
but it was a surprising sign of my late-arriving semi-maturity that I did not
curse my lack of such luck. Maybe it is the return of baseball, the passing out
of winter or the general state of good tidings that have been surrounding me and
mine far and wide but there was none of the usual gnashing gut churning
why-does-this-never-happen-to-me stuff. Why is that? Am I losing my
touch?
Well that is it for today. Let us gather and chat about things
we really do not understand fully and allow the glory of the medium give us
credence far beyond the quality of our thoughts.