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It’s answered at WikiQuote:

Ray Sweatman says, "… I blog because I’m a very important confessional poet. I blog because I’m an american artist. I blog because I can; like
a dog licking his balls. … "

All true.  Especially the dog licking his balls part.

Ray has some new work up this week.  Read it here…

Donna Wentworth writes,

I wanted to let you know about a website I’ve been working on that many of you may be interested in:  EFF’s new Legal Guide for Bloggers .   

It’s a collection of FAQs aimed at helping the average blogger understand her rights in the face of legal threats that most people don’t even understand.  We don’t want people submitting to these threats (like cease-and-desist letters from trademark holders) without recognizing that they have a protected right to speak.

Check it out and pass the word along….

At a little resort town not too far north of Cicero, Illinoise, Jake and Elwood Blog were duly noded having lunch.

"Imagine having to look after the prom queen while being attacked by a bunch of crazed pygmies."

Golby surfaced, somewhere on the Congo, SCUBA clad and pushing a raft of the new pepper gel ahead of him, hoping for a quick profit in Kindu before the hike out overland into Cibitoke, Burundi where Locke should be waiting with the chopper.  Waiting there, that is, if he hasn’t gotten all fucked up with some local voojitsu nonsense.  Good luck, Mike.

I told Golby I’d fly him out, but no-oooo… he says I lack a certain spiritual he-knows-not-what.  Fuck him then.  I swapped out his pepper gel for a couple hundred cases of the Gillette product.  Let’s see what the customers think about that kind of personal protection.

What?  Am I ice cream?  Not!  So don’t call me "Scoop."  In fact, this woulda coulda been the big scoop of the morning.  I woke up and flipped on the desk unit and my Plaxo polluted directory offered the pop-up that today is Jeneane’s birthday.

Happy birthday Blog Sister!

Anyway, I faded by her place to see if I was the first one in with the natal news, but no - I was not.  Many greetings preceded my own in the comments section of her post announcing this.  I’m thinking I’ll have to get up way earlier in the morning if I want to scoop the troop.  I’m thinking…

Dean blogs big.  His posts are long and often deep.  Here are links to two that impressed me.  The first, at morph, the Media Center blog drew my attention and I wanted to write something responsive.  Haven’t done that yet.  But my good intentions about writing something responsive to Dean go back a few years now. 

This next one is newer, noticed today following a link from Doc Searls who is heavy into Danny Kaye schtick and on his way to Scandinavia where I gather he hopes to buy some teak furniture or something.  Dean’s latest interested me because I’ve just been emailing with some proto-leftist bourgeois dupes of the international corporate conspiracy… running dogs of the doodah set…  trying to explain to these people why a Clear Channel Air America is perhaps less <air quotes>liberal</air quotes> than they might prefer.

Dean speaks clearly about music programming formats in the broadcasting main stream.

Doc isn’t actually on a Danish modern hunt.  They have Ikea in California after all.  No, he’s going to Copenhagen to keynote a conference.  He may do a little Danny Kaye/Hans Christian Anderson number while he’s there.  I think of him more like a Neo than like a Mr. Anderson though.

Wonderful what a few minutes free time will do for the disposition…

I read the CBO’s latest post, an advert for David Ickes’ ("one of the planet’s foremost nutjobs") radio appearance this evening as well as a long sprint around the darkness that is modern day anti-semitism, political cult mongering, and what-all.  I was moved to send him my copy of the TinfoilHat Linux mascot.  I meant this in a good way.

Earlier I pointed to Alex Golub’s first post on semiotic technologies, "Eyeball Time."  Having pointed, I just now took the time to actually go back and read it.  While there are no primordial lizard people’s bloodlines evoked, the post gently leads one forward into a subject that is often cluttered with big-word obfuscation.  Alex uses the dread "hermeneutics," then actually defines it in a way that makes sense!

I’m looking forward to the next installment.  (Also, my snarky aside regarding dissertation defense procrastination was written before I read the post.  Obviously this is a fresh piece of work much more significant than the usual blog-addict procrastinative device.  Go Rex!)

Robert Paterson writes,

Starting in June, I will be having two interviews a
month on CBC Mainstreet. I have decided to focus on hearing the stories
of the many Back to the Landers who came to PEI in the 1960’s and the 1970’s.

They have great stories to tell that have something
important to tell us again as we enter a time when knowing how to live
simply may become less of a choice and more of a necessity.

For a golden age, they built their own houses, killed
their pigs and chickens, swam naked, made butter and cheese. Most now
live quite conventional lives but what stories! What confidence that
they could do anything! What friendships and what a contribution to
"Our Country"!

I am starting in Eastern Kings - the hot bed of hippiedom. My  guides will be Darla Thompson and John Rousseau.

I’ll be reading, Robert.