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It’s a Go — Go

March 5th, 2006 by cooper

Also thanks to Jacob I found out that the Coa­li­tion for Dar­fur was also nomi­na­ted in the cate­gory of Wider Recog­ni­tion blogs; mea­ning, I pre­sume, blogs that deserve wider recog­ni­tion. If any blog deser­ves it the coa­li­tion does. They have exhaus­ted them­sel­ves in an endea­vor to get peo­ple to give a shit about something besi­des their desig­ner clothes. While most blogs, inc­lu­ding mine, are rather self ser­ving, full of rhe­to­ric, pon­ti­fi­ca­tion (or just really badly photo shop­ped pic­tu­res of Karl Rove and Bill Maher with the blog owner), the Coa­li­tion has attemp­ted to give us a cons­cience and help bring back the human to humanity.

Peo­ple will spew on fore­ver in their blogs about racism using some of their best aca­de­mic rhe­to­ric and sati­ri­cal wit, hoping to impress ever­yone, espe­cially them­sel­ves, with how astute and active they are when in fact the most obvious and horri­fic form of racism right in front of us and it hardly gets a men­tion. Vote for the Coa­li­tion. Bet­ter yet join, which is pro­bably what they would rather have you do.

So appro­priate to have the voting begins on the eve of the Aca­demy Awards. A show that will get vie­wers only because John Ste­wart is hos­ting, not because anyone really cares who these peo­ple are or what awards they want to give them­sel­ves. I never watch them but will this year because of Stewart.

And just so peo­ple can stop saying I am cold and do not let peo­ple know about the “real me” here in blog land.…a few excerpts from my emails with family will follow.

From an email from my mother:

Did you know that the owner of Criags­list is older than I am and is a Costco member?

From an email from my brother:

When you get an apart­ment make sure it has a bedroom for me and Anna.

Oh and to the anony­mous per­son who sent me the twenty dif­fe­rent pre­sen­ta­tions of tabouli….thanks so much. I will hold on that for awhile though as you could pro­bably guess would be the case. I feel much bet­ter though and did not stay in today as I had plan­ned. I am sta­ying in tonight howe­ver because there may be a mad man loose in the city, or not, either way I’m taking no chan­ces. I’m chi­lling to Dionne War­wick, although Ani DiFranco does some sweet covers .

Until later .….…

Mommy’s alright, daddy’s alright, they just seem a little weird.

Surren­der, surren­der, but don’t give your­self away, ay, ay, ay.

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15 Responses to “It’s a Go — Go”

  1. piaNo Gravatar says:

    i was also nomi­na­ted for best blog, non pro­fes­sio­nal, though hell has a bway
    bet­ter chance of free­zing over

    Thank you the Empress of Wonderlandornot

    Don’t blame your mother for the age thing; could live without
    Costco-though I think he was trying to say that he’s cost
    con­cious but would never go to a Sam’s club – can’t believe
    I’m analy­zing your mother’s email – let me go

  2. cooperNo Gravatar says:

    ha ha, my mother has pro­bably set foot in costco once or twice. I left out the part where she wrote…“I think I bought ten­nis socks there once when we lived in Mary­land”. lHave to keep some pri­vacy afte­rall.
    lol

    I saw it I voted.

  3. Miz BoheMiaNo Gravatar says:

    My son’s pulling my hair as I type and I do not like it. Already voted for all them fine blogs, espe­cially Miss Pia (two categories!)

    I had pro­blems with some jerk who kept sen­ding me viru­ses through Craigs­list (where I used to put up the old baby equip­ment for sale… I LOVE Craigs­list.. a SF ori­gi­nal!) and emai­led them about it. Craig him­self wrote back. He was very sweet and hel­ped in any way he could. That’s what’s so uni­que about SF… such things are totally nor­mal there and everything has that per­so­nal touch…

    Peo­ple say you’re cold? Ah, they don’t know you! I sup­pose if a woman doesn’t gush and squeal and act ditzy for all and knows what she wants it makes he cold. I am glad you are cold then. Don’t thaw out ’cause I like you just the way you are…

  4. shaynaNo Gravatar says:

    Voted… :) You are cold? Hmmmm… never thunk it! ;)

  5. DougNo Gravatar says:

    Cold and sec­re­tive is a fine way to blog. It’s not your job to make stal­kers’ lives easier.

    When I was 20 stal­king took hard work and ingenuity.

  6. weirsdoNo Gravatar says:

    I’m glad you are up and about and resu­ming your good, and not very self-centered, work. Best of luck to Pia.

  7. Rex VenomNo Gravatar says:

    New site? Inte­res­ting. Hope everything works out just fine!
    Rock on!

  8. mojo shiversNo Gravatar says:

    Some­ti­mes I fear the whole point to everything I do is to serve my own inte­rests. I want to be com­pli­ca­ted and have layers upon layers to my agenda, but the sim­ple truth of my per­so­na­lity is that I have a need to announce everything I do as if it is the grea­test event ever to happen.

    We all like to feel we are more impor­tant than we actually are and, in terms of post con­tent, I do see a defi­nite pat­tern in the num­ber of my posts that feel impor­tant and the num­ber of my posts that actually are.

  9. VanessaNo Gravatar says:

    I’m glad that I’m not the only one who has peo­ple telling them that their blog seems “cold” or that I don’t reveal enough “per­so­nal” information.

    Your mom’s email made me laugh. I’m not sure why.

    I’m off to vote.

  10. zydeco fishNo Gravatar says:

    well, i guess i will go and vote.

  11. cooperNo Gravatar says:

    mizzy bohem: yeah.
    Shayna:thanks
    Doug here here
    weirsdo:indeed busy busy busy
    jacob: I think you were the first
    Rexy:oh it will rexy , it will.

    Mojo: you crack me up.
    Vanessa: When I click your name it brings me back to my blog? Nice to meet you anyway.

    Zydeco: Do do.

  12. seizetheniteNo Gravatar says:

    I think the NyQuil may still be wea­ring off.
    vanessa :)

  13. JetNo Gravatar says:

    Thank you so much for the nod. Every­body at BIO appre­cia­tes it!

  14. danNo Gravatar says:

    Oh, I so voted.

    John Ste­wart is the man. I won­der if he’s a Costco member?