Drudging up the Drudge

Blogspot went down and my two most recent posts have returned to draft status = the graphics ‎remain but all the text has vanished. Bummer. Evidently they are still restoring files, so maybe my ‎work will magically reappear... lesson learned: do the writing elsewhere, so it can be saved on the hard ‎drive. Duh. It is very difficult to rewrite something that's already been edited and then tweaked per ‎literary light bulb. Norman Mailer said that writing 2 good pages a day was an admirable achievement ‎and i'm fairly certain that by 'good', he didn't mean 'easily regurgitated'. True, i'm a far, far cry from ‎Mailer, but that only makes it harder to put the words together again.‎

i guess cuz i was angry about the blog and needed to redirect, or maybe because the atmosphere at my workplace has been rapidly degenerating as closing of the school draws near - for whatever reason, i wandered over to Drudge Report... some things don't ever change... he's still putting out some bizarre, disturbing stuff. Instantly reminded why i've avoided the site for so long, i.e. since about 9/12/2001. Checking it today – well, at least he’s consistent. "Boy rides out storm in dryer" relates the true story of a kid's survival during recent Oklahoma tornado. News of the weird, fair enough. "Mitch would pick Condi as VP" turns out to be totally misleading, since the entire 3 page article is about Mitch Daniel's wife and their rocky marriage; Condi Rice is mentioned only once, in the very last line. i'm sure Matt Drudge would love to see her stalking liberal scum in the White House corridors again, but as far as headlines go, this is pure political trash. Shall i continue? Ok, one more. Walt Disney MegaCorp has trademarked the Seal Team 6 of capture-the-bad-guy fame and is planning to come out with ‘clothing, footwear, headwear, toys, games and “entertainment and education services,” among other things.’ Great. i hope they trademark Mossad next, big profits in Beirut for sure. Thanks Mr. Drudge for keeping us abreast of Disney’s latest money hungry effrontery.

Granted, Drudge is basically a clipping service for people who want to overdigest their slovenly portions of sensationalist ‘news’, so it may be unfair to lash out criticism – they’re just linking to stuff other news agencies are publishing. Nonetheless, i won’t be going there again for another decade, at least. It did take my mind off the blogspot problem,though, which is ultimately the higher purpose being served.

BTW, i was surprised to see that Facebook went ahead on their/its own accord and set up a page for this blog on Networked Blogs. If you happen to read this via FB, please consider adding yourself as a follower. If you're reading directly from blogspot, you could still list yourself. i'm all alone here, it would make me feel better, inspired to keep at it... i know lurking is usually more fun and all, but i'm asking nicely, so do it! :-)