Renegade Blogger

It’s Monday morning; in just a few hours I’ll be a high school graduate. I tumble downstairs to grab some breakfast and examine what went wrong with the world. I pick up the front page of the Plain Dealer and discover…again just a high-class newspaper it is. Lets examine the front page. The big headline, in bold, with some ugly picture of Ken Blackwell reads “Politics’ new wild card: blogs.” We need some history here. A while ago the PD decided to do away with this section called the Metro section on Mondays. It had more local interest news, not national news, which should be featured on the front page. To the left of that is a teaser for some dude named Carl Pettersson (holding some glass trophy) and below that is this blurb type thing called Metro Monday. It lists news about Casey Coleman learning his cancer has spread, some new myspace knock off and some grave new coming oil wars. To the right of that is a large picture of several Iraqis holding a coffin under a headline that reads, “Iraqis mourn after 21 killed” with three page article that’s later continued on page…A13. Damn, there had better have been a lot of news to bury this on the 13^th page. Anyway, below that is some thing about traditions featuring old ladies in outrageous hats. Oh, I almost forgot, there is some mention of the Canadian terror plot, that’s next to the Iraqi article.

 

So I open up the paper and…local interest, Canadian terror plot, ads, local news, something about mycrib (huh?), FBI’s newest subject, ads ads, where there’s construction in the greater Cleveland area, ads, something about the Cincinnati Reds nonprofit group, editorials, blog article (continued), ads, a bunch of AP blurbs, some article about falling ants, AND THEN! Finally! The rest of the article about the Iraqis. I’m glad I have a high school diploma so I can read about blogs. I can’t wait to see what I can do with a college one.

Hats off to the Plain Dealer, you really showed us Clevelanders that absolutely no important news happens on Sunday…or ever for that mater.

Songs while typing:
Cheeseballs in Cottontown/Bela Fleck
Swiss Protection/Eddie Izzard
Wide Open Spaces/Dixie Chicks

 

Cross Posted at Progressive U 

This guy over at Vintage again writes something that I find very profound, and again I offer it to those poor poor soles that wander onto my site

"As a generation, we are socially accepting and internationally minded. We are activists, much unlike our silent parents. The internet links us–to members of our generation both in America and around the world–and there is a sense that we are all in this together. There is a sense that the generations before us have done us wrong–from the policies of George W. Bush to the allowance of the Middle East to spiral so far downwards following the world wars. As a generation, we are optimistic. We await the day when we turn old enough to rank higher, change more, and do better. We await the day when we will right these wrongs and make future generations respect our label–our Millennial label."

~Vintage, Generation Gap, posted May 30th 2006.  

Very very well said… 

It’s been awhile, I must say. Graduation is Monday, various people are throwing parties and prom was this past weekend (I think). I actually had a lot more fun at prom than I thought I would, amazing what a girlfriend who likes to dance can do for ya. I had perhaps the most unusual prom night, consisting of donuts, rockin out in my car and falling asleep on her couch I have to say that, and the events that transpired were awesome.

 I think I’ve kinda lost my nitch for posting here; nobody wants to read about the average Joes life. I mean, honestly. I have however been thinking about a slogan that I could put on a vinyl sticker. The world of stickering I think is awesome. A less…illegal? Activity, but none the less one that involves personal expression and a display of art, if one wishes to consider it. I’ve thrown up a few Smiling Disease stickers around the city, but those didn’t last to long and like most other things I get into it kinda dwindled, but now that I have a job and a whole summer to enjoy perhaps I’ll get into it a little bit more…

Thoughts?

Songs heard while writing:
Rise/Craig Armstrong
Helena/Nickel Creek
Anda Y Ve/Akwid