So Who Are These People, Anyway?
May 21, 2007:
This wasn’t really supposed to be a thread — WP puts it in automatically to show newbie WP bloggers what posting looks like — but since a few folks have posted in it recently, I’ll put up some stuff about us.
Phoenix Woman: That’s me. I live in Minnesota. My e-mail address is womanphoenix AT yahoo DOT com. I’ve been online since 1995 — a neophyte compared to most of my friends (one of whom got his first ArpaNet e-mail account in 1977). If I didn’t blog, I’d go nuts. I’m not a cat, but if I were, I’d be a fluffy orange tabby, kinda like these.
Charles Utwater
He was raised in the desert Southwest, from whence he acquired his working knowledge of Mexican Spanish, Mexican culture, and Mexican politics. He’s not a cat either, but if he were one, he’d be a sleek, fastidious tuxedo cat — you know, like Socks.
MEC: She is also a human, or was last time I checked. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of current events, lives in Michigan, and serves as catstaff to two felines: Lady Lightfoot and Alexander the Great (but you can call him “Alex”). If she were a cat, she’d be a tortie or a calico, I reckon. [UPDATE: MEC suggests that she is in fact an avatar of The One Black Cat.]
April 29, 2007 at 10:33 am
Your Ozymandias piece was perfect. As age wears on I’m ever more aware of history rewrites. In 1974 I attended a largely Republican reception where Nixon was toasted and all present save me declared they would vote for him again in an instant. They have brain erasers I think.
Cheers,Woodchuk
April 30, 2007 at 2:23 pm
I have presented you with a “Thinking Blogger Award.” It’s well-deserved.
Please read the post and the rules and tag five other bloggers with this honor.
May 1, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Absolutely love the blog. We try to accomplish something similar on The Starting Five from a sports perspective
http://thestartingfive.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/scoop-jackson-vantage-point/
Here’s something posted today. I’ll definitely put you on the blog roll. Great links also.
May 3, 2007 at 11:31 am
Please consider linking to an anti-war protest music video by the Spicewood Seven of Austin, Texas. The award-winning video was directed by famed Italian post-neo-realist director Antonio Zapanini and shows the horror and insanity of the war from a grunt’s eye view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQUZTml9eDQ
Yours,
Adam Zero
Phoebe Claire Publishing, LLC
May 6, 2007 at 9:30 am
PW — Is Charles your cat?
May 21, 2007 at 8:59 am
you also write at FDL? I enjoy your commentary, thanks for being here
May 21, 2007 at 11:17 am
“If she were a cat, she’d be a tortie or a calico, I reckon.”
Because torties and calicos are all crazy?
I prefer to think I’d be the One Black Cat.
May 22, 2007 at 10:54 am
Freckles Cassie: Meow!
May 23, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Charles, is this you?
http://frecklescassie.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/car-in-a-mac.jpg
May 23, 2007 at 3:57 pm
No, Cassie. That’s a second cousin on my mother’s side. :-)
June 24, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Congrats! I chose you for a Thinking Blogger award!
Read here for more info: http://frecklescassie.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/thanks-for-the-award/
Now I get to give it to 5 other blogs:
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Thinking Blogger Award rules:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote.
Here are my choices:
1. Etcetera at disembedded.wordpress.com .
2. Mercury Rising at phoenixwoman.wordpress.com
3. Millard Filmore’s Bathtub at timpanogos.wordpress.com
4. Our Descent into Madness at ourdescent.wordpress.com
5. Peace takes Courage at peacetakescourage.com/page-home.htm
June 25, 2007 at 8:25 am
That’s very kind of you, Cassie! I’m not sure I’ve thought much recently, but I’ll see what we can do in terms of passing on this award.
October 2, 2007 at 5:45 am
Dear Ms. P.W.
Reading Yr. comments makes me, like Heller’s Chaplin, “Yearn for you,tradgically.”
In that we’re neighbours you might paddle north to ‘boreal moonlight canoeing’ sometime for blueberry torte.
In any event don’t dispair, Lord knows that there are plenty of ashes around to re-conjure a Pheonix, or a ThunderBird.
As an Elder Anishinaabe Firemaster we have some skills in these matters.
Enaways, Say Hey to Garrison and Al and drive with care, we hear rumours of bridge decay.
Megwich, gavin