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Manic-depressive posts from Red Wright-Hand. Because there are thousands of worthless blogs out there and who am I not to add to their number?<p>
<a href="mailto:redrightblog@hotmail.com">redrightblog@hotmail.com</a><p>Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.comBlogger2571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-47756081987461816382007-09-01T10:38:00.000-04:002007-09-01T10:40:24.063-04:00"The Army has confirmed that "several" of the 10 Schofield Barracks soldiers who died in an Aug. 22 helicopter crash in northern Iraq were witnesses in a murder caseinvolving two other Schofield soldiers accused of shooting an Iraqi detainee."Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-12720771682925623342007-08-12T18:13:00.000-04:002007-08-12T18:20:14.434-04:00"Nothing! Nothing!" Woody Allen pays obnoxiously awkward, self-absorbed and name-dropping tribute to Ingmar Bergman in today's New York Times. I cannot resist quoting from this self-contradictory paragraph:"[C]ertainly Bergman’s movies will live on and will be viewed at museums and onTV and sold on DVDs, but knowing him, this was meager compensation, and I amsure he would have been only too glad Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-46972439772332604732007-08-12T17:58:00.000-04:002007-08-12T18:13:42.232-04:00"ANNA....!": Martin Scorsese pays classy tribute to Michaelangelo Antonioni, and L'Avventura in particular, in today's New York Times.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-79158387814781882322007-08-12T17:38:00.000-04:002008-12-09T19:39:50.284-05:00GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD, FEELING NOT TOO BAD, ACTUALLY: The Myeloma Mobile, inspired creation of the Tuohy family (whose pater Michael remains in healthy remission, seven years after being diagnosed with MM at age 36), stopped in Philadelphia yesterday on its coast-to-coast awareness-raising tour. There was a good turn-out, including several folks from the Philadelphia Multiple Myeloma Networking Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-73566366749834875952007-07-31T17:06:00.000-04:002007-07-31T17:26:12.731-04:00THE ODDS: There remains some question as to whether Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare actually died on the same day, but apparently it was close enough for literary work. But what was the likelihood that two other elder masters, Ingmar Bergman and Michaelangelo Antonioni, of another art form (guess which one) would also die on the same day? Too terrible a reminder of a vanished era (Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-90249434145401905662007-06-29T19:25:00.000-04:002008-12-09T19:39:50.683-05:00NOW WITH MORE RACHEL:Downtown Rachel, basically.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-26359696790196614742007-06-29T17:19:00.000-04:002008-12-09T19:39:50.848-05:00THE NINETIES CONTINUE WITH "POP. 98":"Rachel, Nev. (pop. 98), makes Geist’s gazetteer because it is on the official Extraterrestrial Highway, or Alien Highway. It has experienced more U.F.O. sightings and close encounters of the third kind, or any other kind, than anywhere else in the world. The highway also passes by Area 51, a semisecret government test facility where the stealth bomber was Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-9540903209461193732007-06-29T17:12:00.000-04:002008-12-09T19:39:50.963-05:0092: That's how many hours it's been since I posted this:Where's the hate? The screed? The lawyer's injunction yearning to be free? What do I have to do, salt this post with a load of keywords? Schlussel, wingnut, harpy, psychotic, Bush-lover, pro-war, sub-par movie critic...? I could go on.Dear Ms. Schlussel: if I don't respond to your e-mails immediately, it may mean that I am traveling and at Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1125335735363737872007-06-28T07:00:00.001-04:002008-12-09T19:39:51.068-05:00ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE, I AM DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL TOO:Sixty hours and counting....Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-50606830147337587642007-06-26T21:32:00.000-04:002008-12-09T19:39:51.252-05:00The greatest death-defying act in the history of the Internet continues! No, not my ongoing cancer remission...I mean something much more significant: the fact that my Debbie Schlussel picture (or is it her Debbie Schlussel picture? Ay, there's the rub) remains online after 24 hours, and I have yet to hear from a single attorney in any form, shape or way. How bizarre! How odd! How embarassing to Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-77920191474889151162007-06-25T21:28:00.000-04:002008-12-09T19:39:51.364-05:00RINGING THE DINNER BELL: I am given to understand that a certain wingnut actually sues anyone who dares post her "official head shot" online without her express permission, even though, as has been clearly pointed out elsewhere, said shot appears on her website without any notification of proprietary copyright whatsoever. Anyway, in a truly pathetic attempt to gauge the reach of Red Right Blog, IRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-54921676892118937112007-06-12T19:35:00.000-04:002007-06-12T19:42:57.590-04:00DOLLFACE: Red Right Blog colleague (and occasional musical collaborator) Ted Adams has a current exhibition of his photography at the Photo 612 gallery in Haddon Heights, NJ.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-87294673047064382162007-06-10T21:29:00.000-04:002008-12-09T19:39:51.658-05:00It looks like the Red Right archives have finally migrated from Old Blogger to New Blogger, or any way I finally linked how to link to them successfully. You will find them in the drop-down menu to your left:Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-31909287444313323212007-04-28T10:49:00.000-04:002008-12-09T19:39:51.814-05:00BEYOND UPDATE: Well, it's only been ten months. However, I'm logging in to clear away the cobwebs here a bit. You know there's really no one reading your blog when you announce you've been diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer, and nobody (well, nobody you don't already know) e-mails you to say anything.There was also the undeniable fact that as I began my myeloma treatments, I realized I Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1151183724504417602006-06-24T16:56:00.000-04:002006-10-01T11:12:31.800-04:00APHERESIS ME TO PIECES: Seeing as how I have now begun my long-term stay within the U of Penna Health System (and likely risking a lawsuit by posting about it), I feel I should add a few more words about my condition. The nurse just gave me some dexamethasone so that should keep me going for at least a good 30 minutes.Because I agreed to participate in a clinical drug study, I was allowed to stayRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1149941302570257642006-06-10T07:48:00.000-04:002006-06-10T08:08:22.640-04:00MEANWHILE: Just as I come out of casual retirement, I find another Philadelphian announcing his retreat from blogging. Which is a shame, as this Sheepshank fellow is an engaging writer, witness this excellent description of a Center City alley, perhaps the best evocation of downtown Philadelphia I have ever read. Better still, he's a huge Mike Watt fan, and I suppose we passed each other at one Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1149940105431344552006-06-10T07:33:00.000-04:002006-06-10T08:10:49.653-04:00CANCER CALENDAR: The doctor overseeing my transplant pushed my schedule back a week when I met with him on June 1. So instead of beginning pre-transplant medication (injections of neupogen to stimulate white-cell production), I began yesterday, when I was shown how to admininister the neupogen myself. Such fun. I've got a couple of doses cooling in the fridge right now, with one due in a couple Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1148902953028646712006-05-29T07:32:00.000-04:002006-05-29T07:42:33.040-04:00Red Right Blog takes its act on the road, heading to the Jersey shore on Memorial Day (observed) rather than back home from it. This mini-break from the city of Philadelphia is more along the lines of "seeing if I can do it," rather than a burning desire to get a sunburn by the ocean.Remember the war dead.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1147533561129672422006-05-13T10:25:00.000-04:002006-09-03T18:49:42.816-04:00ON TRACK: About two weeks ago, a friend mentioned that I hadn't updated this blog in a while, a comment noteworthy in that it proved people (even if only friends) really do look in from time to time. Not that anyone, friend or foe, ever writes to tell what they think. Between the general lack of reader response, and my cancer diagnosis of late last year (with attendant distractions and serious Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1135442193706344312005-12-24T11:17:00.000-05:002005-12-24T11:36:33.716-05:00MYELOMA E. COYOTE: Only a few things could have made me miss a Fall/Minutemen documentary double-feature, and a diagnosis of multiple myeloma (delivered unto me -- the diagnosis, that is--on Dec. 15) is one of them. You can read more about this wonderful ailment online, of course.I expect anyone who bothers to read this blog anymore already knows me so well as to have already received my more Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1133622877083518032005-12-03T10:07:00.000-05:002005-12-03T10:15:13.726-05:00PAST THE PSYKICK DANCEHALL: I just spontaneously ejaculated in my pants. Two of my very favorite musical outfits, recognized cine-documentarily at long last. See you there.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1130844402059621192005-11-01T06:24:00.000-05:002005-11-01T06:26:42.060-05:00Of course, there's no shortage of gainful employment opportunities for those of you wondering how to pay off student loans and/or support your children. From an e-mail I received last week:The Library Co-op has openings for candidates who can catalog in any of the following languages: Indian(any dialect) Thai(any dialect), Arabic (any dialect), Bulgarian, Croation, Czech, or any of the Baltic Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1130844202312081482005-11-01T06:21:00.000-05:002005-11-01T06:31:58.283-05:00AMERICA EATS ITS YOUNG: From CNN via the Associated Press...House Republicans voted to cut student loan subsidies, child support enforcement and aid to firms hurt by unfair trade practices as various committees scrambled to piece together $50 billion in budget cuts. More politically difficult votes -- to cut Medicaid, food stamps and farm subsidies -- were on tap Thursday as more panels weigh in Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1129235825884860482005-10-13T16:25:00.000-04:002005-10-13T16:37:05.890-04:00BABY BOOM: A certain crooked branch of the family tree makes his mark with this rumination on recent events, non- and otherwise, involving the NYC subway system. Courtesy of Citoyen, an online experience-broadcasting thingy.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1128897235297348772005-10-09T18:32:00.000-04:002005-10-09T18:33:55.303-04:00Is this how Kim Gordon stays looking so young?Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1126448461455089712005-09-11T09:48:00.000-04:002005-09-11T10:21:01.463-04:00LINKS TO:Vice President Dick Cheney being told on live TV to go fuck himself.First Lady Laura Bush referring to Hurricane "Corrina"...twice.Former First Lady Barbara Bush saying "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1126446477248194782005-09-11T09:04:00.000-04:002005-09-11T10:29:26.026-04:00YOU'RE EITHER WITH US, OR YOU'RE WITH THE HURRICANES: Yeah I'm sure I'm the first person to think of that line. Anyway, at a time of genuine crisis like this, I feel I should completely defer to practiced bloggers like Kos or the timely coverage provided by NPR, because...what can I add, what can I say? All I can think of is the obvious: genuine astonishment at the lack of preparedness for this Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1125761418620025402005-09-03T10:54:00.000-04:002005-09-03T11:30:18.626-04:00WHERE'S MY COPY OF THE WILD PALMS? First, you're not allowed on here unless and until you've made some sort of contribution to Katrina relief. Charity Navigator is a good place to start.Having said that, I seriously doubt I have more to say. A random browse of the web's major news sites this morning will tell you more than I can about the situation in New Orleans and the other horribly affected Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1125399100039744332005-08-30T06:36:00.000-04:002005-08-30T06:51:40.046-04:00We watch morbidly as natural forces pummel our buildings and roads and take human lives, reminding us again that we are not the center nor the focus of the world, only another small and ephemeral part of it. Is this the proper time to plug Grizzly Man, the best movie I've seen released this year?Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1125362548019384492005-08-29T20:30:00.000-04:002005-08-29T20:42:28.026-04:00ALL RIGHT, YOU PRIMITIVE SCREWHEADS, LISTEN UP! I finally got a DSL connection, otherwise known as high-speed-internet, and guess what? Sometimes it works real well, and other times it fucks up my 4 1/2 year old laptop something fierce. Or so at least has been the situation since late yesterday afternoon when I finally got the connection flowing through the adapter. Aren't you thrilled? I know I Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1121610960615703282005-07-17T10:26:00.000-04:002005-07-17T10:36:00.616-04:00Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1121610145274935162005-07-17T10:09:00.000-04:002005-07-17T10:25:57.406-04:00Yes I am still alive. For the past several weeks I have been pursuing personal and/or writerly interests of far greater import than this impotent blog. This post is no indication that the hiatus is to be significantly broken. But it's fun to post pictures. Bye.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1115737091990174672005-05-10T10:51:00.000-04:002005-05-10T10:58:11.993-04:00BITING THE DUST DOWN UNDER: Australian blogger and Red Right Blog Hall of Famer Hot Buttered Death has packed it in. I extend my deepest, most heartfelt sympathies. It's not easy keeping one of these things up to date, all on your own, for no money. Congratulations Mr. Russell for having lasted so long!Meanwhile, yet another self-promotion for that other writing I do. Support AGNI!Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1114897014672307502005-04-30T16:19:00.000-04:002005-05-10T10:51:26.176-04:00US: The Viet Nam WarTHEM: The American WarUS: The Fall of SaigonTHEM: The Reunification of Viet NamUS: 58,193 military personnel killedTHEM: 1,320,000 military personnel killed (approx. combined NVA [North], ARVN [South] and NLF [Viet Cong] forces)US: 1,500 MIAs (approx.)THEM: 300,000 MIAs (approx total Vietnamese forces)THEM: 300,000 - 2,000,000 estimated Vietnamese civilian population deaths, Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1113922263162033552005-04-19T10:47:00.000-04:002005-04-19T10:52:31.486-04:00THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Your humble correspondent has a story appearing in the new issue of AGNI. The story is called Revolver. AGNI is throwing a party this Thursday, like so: "Come celebrate the publication of AGNI 61. Readings by Lan Samantha Chang (chosen to become the next director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop), essayist Ben Miller (Best American Essays 2004), poet Gail Mazur (a finalist forRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1113583112911316162005-04-15T12:35:00.000-04:002005-04-15T12:38:32.913-04:00I believe I detect a hint of critical sarcasm. Nice work.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1113429095181762252005-04-13T17:47:00.000-04:002005-04-28T15:36:45.103-04:00THE ADVENTURES OF BLOGGY MARCH: [Ian McEwan]’s 1,200-word eulogy [of Saul Bellow] was graceful, cogent and astonishingly fully formed, bearing no whiff of the lamp, no sign of haste or clotted emotion: It read, if the unforgivable may be suggested, as though (like major New York Times obituaries) it had been written months or years in advance, and carefully whittled and polished till not a trace Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1112991109232236362005-04-08T15:37:00.000-04:002005-04-08T16:11:49.233-04:00THE BELLOW FROM THE BELLY BELOW: Canadian-born American author Saul Bellow died this past Tuesday, three days after Pope John Paul II, in a display of ill-timing not seen since Groucho Marx packed it in three days after Elvis Presley in the summer of 1977. But Bellow's passing does not seem to have been entirely overshadowed by the pontiff's, although, exactly as with the 84-year-old Pope, one Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1112988896606013952005-04-08T15:29:00.000-04:002005-04-08T15:34:56.606-04:00The Viet Nam/Cambodia tour description will resume. If you can'ts stands the wait, may I suggest you submit something of your own for RRB-publication?Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1110670108611365592005-03-12T17:09:00.000-05:002005-03-12T18:36:23.486-05:00CU CHI: It would be wrong to call it a pleasure, but there is a peculiar satisfaction in re-reading some of the Viet Nam journalism I had studied before my trip, and seeing street and place names now leaping recognizably off the page. An eyewitness account of the fall of Saigon in 1975, for example, is lots more immediate when the author (Keyes Beech) begins "...I had breakfast on the ninth floorRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1110033840681554292005-03-05T09:25:00.000-05:002005-03-05T09:44:00.683-05:00What's in a name? Or The Names, for that matter? A short time-out to note that I finally read Amazons, a work known to (some) contempo-US-lit fans as "the book Don DeLillo wrote pseudonymously for some reason." Money? Kicks? I actually got the great man to autograph my hardback copy (purchased ages ago at a used bookstore for, if memory serves, one laughable dollar) in 1997 after a reading at theRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1109802947399770722005-03-02T17:08:00.000-05:002005-03-05T09:24:56.613-05:00BUU LONG: Woke the next morning feeling human at last. Dr. Sinister had a swell idea: a car ride out to Buu Long mountain, east of Ho Chi Minh City, in the vicinity of Bien Hoa. You can easily hire a driver (and possible guide) by checking with the tourist desk at any of Viet Nam's average-or-better hotels; apparently this is the best way to get to any place off of the main air and bus routes.OneRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1109718050906810212005-03-01T17:26:00.000-05:002005-03-07T15:54:51.603-05:00DONG KHOI: In case I'd neglected to notice I was now in a Communist-run country, the view out the hotel room window served to remind me. But who cares when your first Vietnamese meal is waiting downstairs? The local coffee and I begin a lifelong love affair, followed by ricemeal, croissants, and delectable alien fruits.Time for a little daytime trekking. The traffic is stupefying: the main mode Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1109715822310350512005-03-01T16:58:00.000-05:002005-03-01T17:26:23.733-05:00IN-FLIGHT: So nearly four weeks after I first shoved off for Viet Nam, it looks like I'm ready to tell you a little bit about the trip. My flights out (all three of them) were fine, on time and in line, but I can tell you frankly that 24-hours-plus of sustained around-the-world travel, even factoring in some nap time over the Pacific, is not recommended for the less than serious. Arrived in Ho Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1109428177366682722005-02-26T08:58:00.000-05:002005-02-26T09:33:32.346-05:00WAITING FOR THE NAM: So there's jet lag, and an office job to return to and catch up on, and lots of other excuses for my not yet having posted anything substantial about my trip. Not to mention that the pics I took, and which I still intend to link to, are rather large, and the server to which I want to post them can't host them all as they are, and it takes me a while to shrink the photos down Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1109001110417890632005-02-21T10:56:00.000-05:002005-02-21T10:51:50.416-05:00FEAR, LOATHING: Hunter S. Thompson took his life yesterday, with one of the guns he was so fond of brandishing on the grounds of his Colorado compound. I had not paid much attention to his writing for many years, and yet his legend is such that I easily recall that period in my youth when I wanted nothing more than to live and write exactly as he did, much to the consternation of those high Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1108819348369170472005-02-19T08:10:00.000-05:002005-03-05T09:48:59.863-05:00THIS IS THE END: Arrived back home last night a little after 8 PM, EST, or 8 AM next Sunday morning Viet Nam time. We don't want to calculate the precise number of hours spent in and out of planes and airport lounges since waking very early in room 422 of the Chains First Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, because this makes Da-dee cray-zee. But I seem to be fairly coherent at the moment (8:06 AM), with Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1107604034166121042005-02-05T06:43:00.000-05:002005-02-05T06:47:14.166-05:00Item: It is inadvisable to stare down upon Ho Chi Minh City traffic from an 8th-floor hotel bar balcony while in the worst throes of jet lag. Item: Five mg of Valium from the who-needs-a-prescription pharmacy around the corner from the same hotel works wonders with that jet lag.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1107257973442610042005-02-01T06:32:00.000-05:002005-02-01T06:39:33.443-05:00BON VOYAGE: I suppose it's not too inappropriate to use French to signify a departure for Viet Nam. Schedule has me airborne just about this time tomorrow, and please don't expect much of volume in the next two and a half weeks. About par for the course around here. Anyway, time for a look at the beautiful and stubborn land whose history is so bound up with ours ("ours" = USA). Photos and notes Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1106925727828008652005-01-28T10:21:00.000-05:002005-01-28T10:22:07.826-05:00Massive cow manure mound burns for third month. Yes, that got my attention.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1106343172272168642005-01-21T16:28:00.000-05:002005-01-21T16:32:52.273-05:00Almost 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?Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1106342901860432682005-01-21T16:20:00.000-05:002005-01-21T16:28:21.860-05:00AND 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 Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1106342309643221852005-01-21T16:01:00.000-05:002005-01-21T16:20:07.710-05:00Plus, 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 (Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1106339775068990982005-01-21T15:21:00.000-05:002005-01-21T16:01:42.233-05:00LONGEST 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 Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1103320834575935952004-12-17T16:36:00.000-05:002004-12-20T17:32:38.536-05:00WHERE AM I GOING, WHERE HAVE I BEEN? Basically, who cares? I realize my rate of postings here leaves a little to be desired (*cough*), but, well, all the bookish gossip I might link to is already handled in splendid fashion by such stalwarts as Moorish Girl, Moby Lives, and Maud Newtown, so, please, click on their links (see left menu) any time you please. I mean, I really don't have much to Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1103319353230831082004-12-17T16:30:00.000-05:002004-12-17T16:35:53.230-05:00All my illusions about Hitler...shattered. You just can't expect anyone to have an unblemished legacy any more. Still, it does set a helpful precedent for politicians campaigning on a platform of permanent tax cuts.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1102362098308796662004-12-06T14:30:00.000-05:002004-12-06T14:41:38.310-05:00The colossal oil spill on the Delaware River is now so bad that even the paper of record is paying attention (registration required). I got a look at it yesterday, about a mile or so upstream from the ruptured tanker, and the scenery was terrible: solid swathes of black sludge left on the riverbanks where the tide had receded, foul and thick. Just imagine a pot of tar upended on your lawn and Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1102361410258353662004-12-06T14:26:00.000-05:002004-12-06T14:43:04.773-05:00MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN: Create your own church sign. Word count is your only limitation. Like so....Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1101835855734134512004-11-30T13:03:00.000-05:002004-11-30T12:32:25.146-05:00HURRY WHILE IT'S STILL NOVEMBER: Obits and reminiscences abounding online for Mississippi writer Larry Brown, who died the day before Thanksgiving, age 53. I had really only read a couple of his stories in anthologies (before I consumed On Fire over the holiday weekend), but they made an impression, not least because they recalled so well the atmosphere of Lafayette County in northern MississippiRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1100650274756966602004-11-16T19:00:00.000-05:002004-11-16T19:11:14.756-05:00U.S. CASUALTIES! COMING TO YOU NOW IN FIVE FIGURES! Aw-right! According to official Department of Defense figures (as tabulated by the Iraqi Coalition Casualty Report), total US casualties since the start of George and Donald's (and Condi's and Paul's...) Excellent Iraqi Adventure passed the 10,000 mark earlier this month. In fact, they number, at this time of writing, 10,156. That's a bunch, Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1100450690503596832004-11-14T11:07:00.000-05:002004-11-14T11:44:50.503-05:00SOME LONG-DELAYED CULTURAL NEWS: Among the Missing, a 2001 story collection by Dan Chaon, is as good as everyone says. It's remarkable how much emotion and tension Chaon creates out of a disarmingly simple prose style. (Raymond Carver, who provides the book's epigraph, appears to be the model here, but Chaon's work struck me as far more subtle and rich.) These are tales of deep feeling, exploringRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1100448454330446772004-11-14T11:04:00.000-05:002004-11-14T11:07:34.330-05:00Looks like our boys will be back by Christmas....2014, perhaps.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1100448265751017962004-11-14T10:52:00.000-05:002004-11-14T11:04:25.750-05:00MEMO TO CELESTIAL ADMINISTRATORS: You killed the wrong Old Dirty Bastard with heart problems this weekend. It was supposed to be the white guy, not the black guy.
Meanwhile, at least one set of voters made the right decision this month.
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1099843628053122042004-11-07T09:58:00.000-05:002004-11-08T15:11:44.490-05:00AY, OH, WAY TO GO, OHIO, or THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU: I certainly don't have anything authoritative to add to the oceans of commentary spilled forth since the morning of November 3rd, other than my personal juicy fuck-you to everyone who voted to give George W. Bush a second term in the White House. From this moment forth, whenever I hear someone complain about the hemorrhagic costs of theRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1099330400396376042004-11-01T13:28:00.000-05:002004-11-01T12:33:20.396-05:00Well, this is it, less than 24 hours till the polls open...and my main reason for not posting so often here lately is the fact that I've been giving much of my spare time since September to preparing for this day. That, and the fact that I still have a poky dial-up connection at home. Depending on the outcome, I may be too depressed to post after Nov. 3rd at all, but...only positive thoughts Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1099330082085336092004-11-01T13:26:00.000-05:002004-11-01T12:28:02.086-05:00FORWARDED FROM MIKE WATT'S MESSAGE LIST:
Subject: FW: RE: PERSONAL PLEA - POLITICAL
> > From: "Elizabeth Hahn"
> > Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:17:27 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> > my friends....and close to home.
> >
> >
> > From: Diana McGowen
> > Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:14:34 +0000
> > Subject: RE: PERSONAL PLEA - POLITICAL
> >
> > Donnie,
> >
> > Thank you for sending this out. With myRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1098970939071589552004-10-28T09:36:00.000-04:002004-11-01T12:24:56.553-05:00A lunar eclipse across North America, the Red Sox sweeping the Series...all we need now is a Kerry victory next Tuesday to round things out.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1098820773542393052004-10-26T15:58:00.000-04:002004-10-26T15:59:33.543-04:00And while I'm here, and for what it's worth, Moby Lives appears to have returned.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1098820609300755032004-10-26T15:53:00.000-04:002004-10-26T15:56:49.300-04:00UNKNOWN PLEASURES: RRB breaks radio silence to observe the passing of John Peel, officially the world's greatest-ever DJ.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1097875185922463622004-10-15T17:18:00.000-04:002004-10-15T17:27:05.580-04:00America...Fuck Yeah!Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1096807230967436052004-10-03T08:27:00.000-04:002004-10-03T08:40:30.966-04:00ONE CAFFEINE-WITHDRAWAL HEADACHE LATER: Yeah, it's been a while. But MobyLives has been "on hiatus" since January yet still rates a mention in today's Times' rundown of lit-related websites (is that what I am?), so cut me some slack.
One fellow who's been doing lots of updating lately is Mr. Ted Adams, whose new Heudnsk blog showcases his extraordinary series of urban photographs.
Oh, and I Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1095879181960752532004-09-22T14:50:00.000-04:002004-09-22T14:53:01.960-04:00Oh, and something over 12,500 Iraqis have died since March 20, 2003 as well.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1095878958093232212004-09-22T14:41:00.000-04:002004-09-22T14:49:18.093-04:00Russ Meyer is dead. My autographed "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" refrigerator magnet remains. I still have the feeling, 15 years after I began watching his films closely, that his remarkable skills as a filmmaker remain overshadowed by his subject matter. I'm serious: his budgets were often skimpier than his actresses' garments yet he worked visual miracles. Check out the opening scene of Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1095680797981018032004-09-20T07:03:00.000-04:002004-09-20T16:45:34.323-04:00ON BEING HAPPILY HUMBLED: In case I haven't made my opinions clear in recent months, let me state my loathing for President Bush and his ranking Administration officials...with some loathing left over for the non-ranking officials as well. He represents the most unashamedly cynical aspects of American political life (namely that the general populace will agree with, or at least offer no Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1095362490562954042004-09-16T15:17:00.000-04:002004-09-16T15:24:09.133-04:00In other music news, the following is the complete setlist of last Friday evening's "Electrifying Conclusion" farewell tour Philadelphia appearance of Guided By Voices:
Sad If I Lost It/Everyone Thinks I'm A Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)/Fair Touching/Sleep Over Jack/Girls of Wild Strawberries/I Drove a Tank/I Am a Tree/Window of My World/My Impression Now/Gonna Never Have to Die/My Kind of Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1095362268703489642004-09-16T15:06:00.000-04:002004-09-16T15:17:48.703-04:00AND STILL KEITH RICHARDS LIVES: Was it Reagan's death that made Johnny Ramone feel he just couldn't go on anymore? Regardless of his political leanings, the man played guitar at some of the most transporting concerts I ever attended. Nice way to celebrate Rosh Hashana, you big goon.
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1095273652546336762004-09-15T14:34:00.000-04:002004-09-20T07:02:53.270-04:00LIFE IN THE BUG CITY: A REPORT FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN POST-GOP-MANHATTAN...VERMIN-HATTAN, THAT IS:
"Was hanging with a chick at this subterranean club, when all of a sudden she jumps up and starts flailing at the table. I see that there's about a 2" long roach right fucking front and center. Having to act quickly, I grabbed the drink doily, which, being rather thin, prompted me to flick at Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1094678790766163732004-09-08T17:12:00.000-04:002004-09-08T17:29:40.030-04:00W., meet K: When the summer began, I did a little math and calculated that US military fatalities in Iraq would surpass 1,000 before the season's end. In an uncharacteristic display of tastefulness, I declined to post this prediction on the blog. What a wimp. No such lack of intestinal fortitude from our Vice President, who reminded us yesterday of what the November election is all about: VOTE Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1094582148153877352004-09-07T14:34:00.000-04:002004-09-07T14:36:44.646-04:00Assorted American writers weigh in on the 2004 election.
(Boy, it's amazing how much good stuff you can post when you steal from a prominent blog.)
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1094581896251294522004-09-07T14:31:00.000-04:002004-09-07T14:31:36.253-04:00The XXX-rated Bible.
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1094581815904048372004-09-07T14:29:00.000-04:002004-09-07T14:30:15.903-04:00An excerpt from Philip Roth's new novel, The Plot Against America.
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1094391142539900712004-09-05T09:27:00.000-04:002004-09-05T09:32:22.540-04:00On this calm holiday weekend in the Northeastern United States, I consider my accidental privileges and send best wishes for peace to all people suffering assorted horrors and pummellings in other parts of the world.
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1094390779792722202004-09-05T09:21:00.000-04:002004-09-05T09:26:19.793-04:00That same issue of The New Yorker has a very good article on current political ads on television, and the history of same, which leads us to The Living Room Candidate, an extraordinary online archive of such ads from 1952 to the present. Hosted by the American Museum of the Moving Image.
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1094390426953265332004-09-05T08:57:00.000-04:002004-09-05T09:36:53.230-04:00IT'S OH SO CLICHED: Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, had this fresh comment to make about Bjork in his August 23 profile of the Icelandic singer and actress:
"Bjork manages to sound as if she knows everything and nothing at once."
Probably nasty of me to cherry-pick a single line like that out of what is not terrible coverage of Ms. Gudmundsdottir's career and brand-new album...Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1094327132950518502004-09-04T15:39:00.000-04:002004-09-04T15:45:32.950-04:00Oh, and congratulations to President Bush for achieving re-nomination before the GI death toll in Iraq hit four digits. Way to go, Commander-in-Chief!
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1094326513276528652004-09-04T15:24:00.000-04:002004-09-05T08:57:16.873-04:00RED WRIGHT-HAND REVEALS RED RIGHT EYE: Here's a close-up look at the result of "mask squeeze," a minor affliction brought on by not properly equalizing the air pressure within my face mask while scuba diving last Sunday (likely where I picked up my cold, too). Pretty cool, eh? Never happened to me before in 10 years of diving, and it looks a lot worse than it really is, and it's already cleared Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1094325861271436412004-09-04T15:12:00.000-04:002004-09-04T15:24:21.270-04:00I appear to've set a personal record for longest gap between blog postings: huzzah. Please blame it on the debilitations of a late-summer cold, and general anomic listlessness; I will if you will.
Meanwhile, however difficult it may be to believe, it appears that California Governor and occasional actor Arnold Schwarzenegger may not have been strictly truthful in some of his remarks uttered Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1093555551036846702004-08-26T17:19:00.000-04:002004-09-04T15:38:55.456-04:00The Don DeLillo Papers now reside with the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Fans of the great man will drool over the online catalog. (Thanks to the estimable Don DeLillo's America for the news.)
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1093555169896674312004-08-26T17:18:00.000-04:002004-08-26T17:19:29.896-04:00Mission Not Accomplished.
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1093469659710688152004-08-25T17:18:00.000-04:002004-08-25T17:34:19.710-04:00More BUllSHit # 7,832: Check out this sweet Letter to John Kerry from Veterans on the official Bush-Cheney '04 campaign site. Note the peculiar second sentence, with its implication that some veterans may not have "worn the uniform [sic]" and served the USA. Especially note the ambiguity of the last sentence:
"We urge you to condemn the double standard that you and your campaign have
enforced Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1093442319618054992004-08-25T09:49:00.000-04:002004-08-25T09:58:39.620-04:00A bloody shame. I flew British Airways in March to London and back and their service was impeccable; in fact, when a passenger suffered a mild heart attack on the flight to the UK, not long after take-off, the crew and attendants reacted with unforgettable aplomb (the plane was smoothly diverted to Newfoundland and the passenger treated onboard and allowed to disembark).
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1092939265464733812004-08-19T14:10:00.000-04:002004-08-19T14:14:25.466-04:00Nope, haven't read it yet. Given its brevity (and the lousy reviews), I figure I'll whiz through it for free some afternoon in a bookstore aisle. Comments, anyone?
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1092922766691270102004-08-19T09:34:00.000-04:002004-08-19T09:39:26.690-04:00In line with my recent plug for Between Cracks, E.C. Adams' book of Philadelphia photographs (which you've all bought by now, right?), here's a link to Passing Through Philadelphia, a website put up by the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. And please, no cracks, between or otherwise, about passing through Philadelphia being the best way to see it, because only I'm allowed to make those Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1092573878619393562004-08-15T08:40:00.000-04:002004-08-15T08:44:38.620-04:00Some good Sunday morning coverage of the present situation(s) in Iraq, from Scotsman.com (on the Shia uprisings in Najaf) and The Philadelphia Inquirer (on the Sunnis in Ramadi).
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1092344811080312142004-08-12T17:06:00.000-04:002004-08-12T17:06:51.080-04:00It's a man, baby....
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1092173948716177952004-08-10T17:28:00.000-04:002004-08-10T17:42:07.376-04:00Requiscat in primate. The Empire State Building, in a truly classy move, will dim its lights tonight in tribute, from 9:30 PM to 9:45 PM EST.
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1091810243118961882004-08-06T12:16:00.000-04:002004-08-07T08:38:30.603-04:00WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY, ETC: Bafflingly, the White House website reprints the verbatim text of President Bush's spectacular statement yesterday ("Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.") during the signing of the new Defense Appropriations Act. Somebody help me out here with Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1091802879034249522004-08-06T10:30:00.000-04:002004-08-06T10:34:39.036-04:00Writer Gloria Emerson, whose 1970s journalistic dispatches from Vietnam for The New York Times remain powerful reading, died in New York City this week.
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1091705498986550272004-08-05T07:24:00.000-04:002004-08-05T07:31:38.986-04:00Bruce Springsteen, "a writer and performer" and, incidentally, a "well-to-do guitar player," op-eds remarkably in today's New York Times (free registration required) about the upcoming Vote for Change tour and its hope "to change the direction of the [US] government and change the current administration come November." Think they'll play the Aladdin casino in Vegas?
Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363213.post-1091654322592849092004-08-04T17:09:00.000-04:002004-08-04T17:18:42.593-04:00BASICALLY BECAUSE NO ONE ASKED FOR THEM: Here are some photos from my recent Chincoteague vacation. First, the hoofprints of Misty herself, as immortalized in the Main Street sidewalk outside the town movie theater. Then, some shots of actual living wild horses on the Assateague wildlife refuge, including a colt whom I startled from a nap such that he rose to join his mother. (Sorry about that, Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.com0