My other blog is, um, a LiveJournal : )

So I don't update this as much as I once promised to. So what? (I hear you cry). Well, I was reminded to do it by 3 independent sources today - must be a sign - alas, here I am.

It has become sort of a running (tired) joke on the news and in the societal mainstream that blogs (apart from journalistic/ instructional/ scientific blogs) are meaningless, solipsistic tools of isolation that enable people to feel as if they are communicating when really they are only further using technology as an excuse to not leave their homes. Also no one reads them. So the backlash? Um... geeks ripping themselves away from slashdot for long enough to IM or email friends and/ or loved ones rather than read a few blog entries and feel caught up without actually making any connection? Um, maybe. Or maybe once the hoopla dies down, the blog will have a renaissance and it's real purpose will be revealed (and no, I swear, it is not selling Viagra through the comment fields. It just can't be.).

The once geeky boardwatch referencing few who logged their experiences in 13375p34k for other green complected alpha males to digest and react to have yielded to forums for blathering on any topic - none are considered too banal, none too racy- all are allowed and few are regarded as, well, at all really I guess. Unless you work somewhere strict and then you can get fired - but I argue that even then, your boss was probably the only one reading your blog.

Now, me? I'm a regular sassy gal about town, so all of this doesn't apply... not really. Although the fact that I just utilized an ellipses - for the second time - should frighten you (at least there were only three dots, consider yourself lucky).

I watched Steal This Movie! last night. Not great - but hard to hate. Underdeveloped and too glossy for a portrait of Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman (who's real day to day life, I imagine, was messier and less gentle than it was portrayed in the film). I loved the acting performances though and you cannot escape the powerful context of that era in our nation's history. It started me off and motivated me to write this whole blog entry (in my head) about activism and how my generation became enamored and then inured to the 60s and the whole notion of activism almost right out of high school. It was almost as if the whole idea of taking part in any kind of revolutionary behavior was considered immature and unrealistic (even in the 80s and 90s). Yet, it is my peer group who finds themselves looking around and saying "Hey! Wait a minute. What happened to our civil liberties? The Patriot Act says what?" etc. Protesters are more or less universally mocked and no one feels like it's powerful to do anything but lobby in congress. I don't know the answers - but it was a great entry. I knew I should have written it down - very introspective, thought provoking.

What's my point? Um, yah, this is a blog?

Right...

Later daters.