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capri0mniLiveJournal seems to have vanished off the edge of the Internets. Whether I try to link to it through Google Chrome or AOL/Internet Explorer, I get a variation of the same message: "Are you sure you're even connected to the Internet? Is your router working? Your modem plugged in? Anyone? Beuller?"
Since I can connect to every other site I want, I'm sure the answers to all those questions is: "Yes."
In the meantime, today is the first anniversary of my blog Plato's Nightmare / Aesop's Dream. I ... have not kept up with it at the pace I'd originally imagined (which was one post a week). Instead, I end up having skipped whole months entirely... If I work quickly, I may be able to get a quick little post about the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin up before midnight -- in nearly all versions of the story, from the Grimms' mash-up of various local German folk versions, to Robert Browning's 19th C. verse, there's at least one child left behind to act as witness and storyteller for the adults: the ones who tried to follow the others, but were unable to. In Browning's poem, it's a lame boy, who was just one step too slow, and the door to the promised paradise closed before he could step through.
This is, in some ways, a strange, "reverse" of the original meaning of "Monstrum" from the ancient Romans: instead of the deformed, ill-fitting child being a Sign-in-Flesh of Disaster-to-Come, these children are a living reminder to all who see them of the Disaster-that-Has-Been.
And once that post is written, I'll start work on my piece for Blogging Against Disablism Day (B.A.D.D), which will be hosted by the "Diary of a Goldfish" blog, next Tuesday. The link to the introductory post is here: http://blobolobolob.blogspot.com/2012/04/blogging-against-disablism-day-will-be.html
Anyway, when I first started "Plato's Nightmare," I told myself that if I kept it going for a year, I would look back and think about whipping a selected portion of posts into parts for a coherent whole, and maybe trying to get that whole published as an E-Book.
Y/N?
Anyway, since I don't have the volume of work I was expecting I'd have, by now. I'm wondering if I should put that project off for a little while...
Since I can connect to every other site I want, I'm sure the answers to all those questions is: "Yes."
In the meantime, today is the first anniversary of my blog Plato's Nightmare / Aesop's Dream. I ... have not kept up with it at the pace I'd originally imagined (which was one post a week). Instead, I end up having skipped whole months entirely... If I work quickly, I may be able to get a quick little post about the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin up before midnight -- in nearly all versions of the story, from the Grimms' mash-up of various local German folk versions, to Robert Browning's 19th C. verse, there's at least one child left behind to act as witness and storyteller for the adults: the ones who tried to follow the others, but were unable to. In Browning's poem, it's a lame boy, who was just one step too slow, and the door to the promised paradise closed before he could step through.
This is, in some ways, a strange, "reverse" of the original meaning of "Monstrum" from the ancient Romans: instead of the deformed, ill-fitting child being a Sign-in-Flesh of Disaster-to-Come, these children are a living reminder to all who see them of the Disaster-that-Has-Been.
And once that post is written, I'll start work on my piece for Blogging Against Disablism Day (B.A.D.D), which will be hosted by the "Diary of a Goldfish" blog, next Tuesday. The link to the introductory post is here: http://blobolobolob.blogspot.com/2012/04/blogging-against-disablism-day-will-be.html
Anyway, when I first started "Plato's Nightmare," I told myself that if I kept it going for a year, I would look back and think about whipping a selected portion of posts into parts for a coherent whole, and maybe trying to get that whole published as an E-Book.
Y/N?
Anyway, since I don't have the volume of work I was expecting I'd have, by now. I'm wondering if I should put that project off for a little while...
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