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Thursday, August 5th, 2010A Year In Blogging
Monday, July 5th, 2010Gorilla’s been doing this blog now for a year, and here’s what he’s learned:
1) Blogging software’s come a long way. 5 years ago, it was just too much of a hassle trying to configure everything and learn things like php. The purpose of blogging is to write, not to wallow in tech support bottlenecks.
2) My audience consists primarily of one person: me. I write for my own pleasure and have never expected anything in the way of popularity. As it turns out, this is the right approach, since the number of actual people commenting on the blog this year can probably be numbered at a dozen.
3) Number of posts: 859, or roughly 3-4/day. This is more or less what I expected to produce, because there are plenty of days/weeks when absolutely nothing happens that’s worth a comment, an analysis, or a laugh. I plan to produce more in year 2, but events, dear boy, events will determine what I achieve.
4) I’ve learned a lot about the nature of the blogging commentariat. There’s an awful lot of repetition on the topical stories. There’s not as much humor as I would like to read in other blogs. There’s too much focus on the minutiae of DC politics, and not enough on the big issues in our country and around the world. Optimistically, the variety of opinions and information now available makes it easier to be inspired and far simpler to be an informed citizen.
5) I love the ability to incorporate music and video easily. This is more or less what I was doing when Gorilla Meek Enterprises launched in 1998, but it was a chore then, both to amass the material and make it presentable on the web. In the old days, it was click through Amazon cover art, now it’s YouTube embedding, cut and paste is making progress at last!!!
Gorilla says: “Thanks to all who have read the blog, please keep the comments coming, I hope you’ll join me for the ride in year 2!”
The Blog Takes A Vacation
Friday, June 11th, 2010Gorilla and George T. will be heading off for a week’s vacation.
Posting will be sporadic, if existent at all.
We’ll be glad of some relief from BP, the Know Nothing Party, and the pointless wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and on drugs, while trying to pump a little money into the staggering US economy.
Gorilla says: “Enjoy the arrival, screw the journey!”
Education In Ratiocination: A Bozo Ottava Rima Song
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010We are a land full of posthumous degrees.
For those whose fate we can no longer control
Or animals not supporting industries
Who wash out a late someone drowning in coal
A gallon, a barrel, the scuttling of pleas
To seem overstretched, to redeem out of role
A yeardley once killed is beyond such amends
And measures the spillage while just among friends.
Gorilla Gets It Wrong (Twice)
Monday, May 10th, 2010First wrong: Euroland leaders have indeed bet it all on saving the currency regime.
A trillion dollars will go a long way towards addressing the immediate problem: the end of credit facilities for the so-called PIIGS. It does not deal with the underlying problem: the PIIGS will have to accept a decade or more of brutal, deflationary downturn in order to remain solvent. A better solution, namely throwing some or all of them out of the euro regime and allowing the PIIGS to grow their way out via currency devaluation, is not in the cards, but it may very well be revisited in a year or two.
Fundamentally, the insolvency remains on the books and, as in the US, the hope of central bankers is that a return to economic growth will allow extend and pretend to work. Whether this is a forlorn hope remains to be seen, but the evidence so far is not encouraging.
Gorilla says: “We can now conclude that the world’s political leaders have about as much control over the world’s financial system as they do over the world’s terrorist system.”
Second wrong: Elena Kagan will be the next Supreme Court justice.
Another triumph of political pragmatism and mediocrity. Kagan’s record as Solicitor General is very uninspiring, but it’s good to have another woman on board what is a very far-right court.
Gorilla says: “We still must root for a contagion that will put Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito into retirement at the earliest possible opportunity!”
99 Weeks Of Checks: A George T. Special
Friday, April 30th, 2010And that will be it, apparently, didn’t you know there’s an economic recovery on?
This will of course be news to those whose unemployment benefits have run out, whose houses are being foreclosed, and whose futures look bleaker than ever…
So, George T. suggests a reprise of Nena’s old song, 99 Luft Balloons, because we can’t all be Captain Kirk:
Gorilla says: “Just to prove the real world was here!”
Still On Hiatus
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010The blog’s going to be a bit intermittent this week, full service to resume shortly!
Blog On Hold
Sunday, March 28th, 2010Gorilla’s off to the Big Apple again, so blogging will be extremely sporadic until the end of the week.
The Village, The Age, The Surging, The Purging: A Bozo Ottava Rima War Song
Monday, February 15th, 2010Moshtarak, Mubarak, they all seem the same!
A battle we don’t want, all dying in vain.
Victory defined by one dictator’s game
With allies who can’t, and the torturer’s stain.
Revenge is refined, all coruscating flame
Of fighting slant; these volunteers feel some pain,
While embedded upon Republican spree
Or Bayhnomial rant: so human rights free.
Off The Blog Today
Monday, February 1st, 2010Gorilla’s head is in a different place, normal service will resume tomorrow…
