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I guess it's a testament to either my friends good writing skills, or to the media that has Pavlov'ed me, unwittingly, into a complete state of paranoia and irrational fear.

When I opened Livejournal this morning, the first friend's entry that I read was very well crafted, and left me scrambling for CNN, and then Boston.com, and then the BBC. Because, you know, maybe it was that their webfolk hadn't been able to update the site yet.

Because I didn't think "Zombies," I thought "Terrorist Attack." (it was a well written entry with no mention of typical zombie action.)
And for a short, yet too long period of time, my heart was in my throat again.
The same way it was during the damn "LightBrite" incident.
The same way it was 6 years ago.

After figureing out what the heck was going on, I allowed myself to be amused - and really, it has provided an interesting diversion for a day when I have effectively worked myself out of work.



This "Live" journal is an interesting beast. I am comforted that I don't believe everything I read on the intar-web, and do my research to back things up. The speed of information is staggering - who's to say what's true anymore, without first-hand experience to back it up? How much do we rely on friends to post "truths"?

It raises questions with me about the world, and the sad state of a collective soul when I can't take a lighthearted exercise the way it was intended...


I have sat here, and tried to write something up to participate, in vain.
I guess I listen to the news too much, read the paper too much, and any fiction I write can't hold a candle to actual horrors that occur around the world every day.
- K.

Inspired

Oct. 25th, 2006 01:09 pm
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(inspired by a recent post of Illustrator's)


I grew up in a news based household - we got the daily paper, we always watched the 6 pm local news and the 7 pm national news with Peter Jennings.
I gre up listening to Mr. Jennings, and I was much saddened when he passed away. A voice from my childhood had been extinguished, and with it, a voice that I felt I could trust.

When I moved out, and to college, I lost that news schedule - the world became too complicated, I had too many choices for where to get my news. Everyone seemed to contradict each other, so eventually I threw up my hands in apathy and ignored the news. I walked away, and hoped the world wouldn't follow me. I spent a great deal of time ignoring the news. If I didn't know about it, It didn't affect me.


Then I met this man named Spider. And desire for news started to tickle the back of my head.

Then I met a man named Hunter. Crazy as a fruit bat, and you had to take his writing with a grain of salt, (or a grain of "insert choice of illegal substance here.") But in reading his accounts of old news, it gave strength to the desire to know what was going on.

After that I was introduced to a man named John, and his good friend Steve. They give me news of the day, but they make it stand on it's head - they say what we're all thinking, and spin it in a way that we can laugh through the tears of frustration that today's news often gives us.


Just recently, I met a man named Keith. (This is ironic in my world.) This man has given me back the news, and given it a dept of passion that hadn't existed in my news, no, in my politics, to date. His commentaries are thoughtful, well spoken, and direct. I urge anyone looking to find someone who seems to speak honestly, to watch this guy, listen, and maybe remember waht he has to say later.
For more, please see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

The times, they sure are interesting, if nothing else.

- k.

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