Comments on: today on our show

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:53:09 +0000

I also like my friend’s podcast: http://www.feastoffools.net

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-jason

By: Kellan

Kellan — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:41:09 +0000

Hee hee. Actually, he’ll probably be weeping with embarrassment at the baby pictures that the whole world will see.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:29:45 +0000

Kellan - But since you are a new mother, you are granted so many more freedoms regarding excessive monologues. I’d even put up with pig Latin as long as you tossed in a fresh photo of Michael with the post. Because you [we] have special digital capacities to do so, it’s important, I believe, to document his life in as many ways as possible. If the internet is around in 18 years when he is reminiscent and graduating from Future High School, he’ll weep with joyous tears at your attention to his caretaking and upbringing, as spoken of in your writing.

And if he doesn’t weep, I’ll give him something to cry about.

By: Kellan

Kellan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:18:58 +0000

Hey — that’s exactly what my blog is — a quasi-detailed tally of a given day-in-the-life with gripes and complaints about my personal hang-ups.

By: cliffardo2001

cliffardo2001 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:11:31 +0000

EDIT. My previous post should start with “I would AGREE with you…”

By: cliffardo2001

cliffardo2001 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:06:39 +0000

I would disagree with you on the issue of “shallowness.” I would say that those blogs are completely useless. I am not saying that thoughtful and meaningful writing should not happen. What I am saying is that the so called inspiration for much apparently thoughtful writing seems arrogant and self-important. My blog (though hardly an active one) has been victim to my emotional whims, but I have often strived to write meaningful entries. Many of these entries have been borne from ideas floating around in my head that I am simply trying to share with whoever may care to read about my thoughts. Again, I am not a big fan of people airing their dirty laundry, so to speak. I am just not a fan of writing that tries award special merit to something that is really not deserving of it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:39:24 +0000

I think what you are describing is often called “shallowness” and is the best descriptor for those millions of blogs out there that consist of little more than a quasi-detailed tally of a given day-in-the-life and then gripe and complain about their personal hang-ups.

My main idea is that richness of living is around us and that training ourselves to see it is an admirable feat. The millions of people, both personal and professional, whose writings cry for ultimate justice and fulfillment experience zero richness, nor are they aware it is present.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:30:10 +0000

While I also enjoy a good story, I think that, oftentimes, too many people bring too much meaning to relatively meaningless events in their lives. There are certainly important and meaningful moments in the course of one’s life, but at the end of the day someone might simply be fueling themselves. Personally, I have grown weary of people bringing meaning to nothingness and then passing it off as being enlightened.