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Friday, January 28, 2005
Friday, January 21, 2005
Almost forgot in my blog-burst here to mention Moorish Girl's great good news: impending publication of her first novel, under her actual name of Laila Lalami. Keep an eye out: she's a sharp reader as well as an energetic blogger, unlike some we could name. In a month or so, I'll be telling you about another blogger getting his work published. Gee, can you guess who it is? AND SPEAKING OF SOUTHEAST ASIA: Guess who's heading there in less than two weeks? Yeah, me. A week in Vietnam and a week in Cambodia, a tour that's been in the planning since last fall. Well, earlier than that actually, but who's keeping track at this point? Long hours of online research and travel bookings are another reason for my absence from blogging of late. But there are of course Internet cafes in both countries, and if opportunity permits, I will drop a line...can't promise anything Graham Greene-ish, but I'll do my best. (And yes I have read The Quiet American, thanks for asking.) Plus, Blogger has apparently taken this hour to crash its server or something, making updates from even my present connection rather slow. Anyway... I couldn't think of anything to add to reports on the Indian Ocean tsunami. Moorish Girl has a rather well-considered article. Like millions of other people, I've had the experience of being knocked over and helplessly dragged in "rough" surf (six-foot waves, more or less, off the Eastern US coast), but my attempts to multiply the experience exponentially in imagination come up rather short, as do my attempts to conceive what life must be like for the survivors. Well, you know the drill by now: here's a link to just a few of the charities involved, and here's a link to what appears to be the major-related blog: The South-east Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog. LONGEST LACUNA EVER: That's right, a new personal record. More 'n a month. Not bad, eh? And seeing as how the gap came over the winter holidays, it's even more shameful. But, see, this is how it is, folks: I still have a dial-up connection at home, and I'm just too cheap and stubborn (and cheap) to go high-speed. Yet. So blogging from home can be a drag. And, see, when I'm at work, where I do have a fastiddy-fast connection, I'm usually feeling too responsible to do any major blogging. Yes, me, responsible. Except for like now. So here I am. But if you think I'm bad, get a load of the keepers of Susan Sontag's online legacy. As of this moment of writing (Jan. 21, 2005, 3:20 PM DST), Susan Sontag, according to her official website, "lives in New York City," and may be contacted care of the publicity department of publishers Farrar, Straus & Giroux, presumably with the intervention of a spiritualist. Susan Fucking Sontag's publicity department. Yeah, I'm really behind in my updates, I'm just so embarrassed... |
