Hunting The MuseWriting helps me find my muse. Sometimes I have to sneak up on it.New Location- February 28, 2005 I've moved my blog to http:www.museworld.comblog. My feed files are located there as well. Please update your links. Thanks!http://www.museworld.com/archives/001702.html Form, Essence- February 26, 2005 A good way to sum up one of the subthreads of the previous post is that I was working so hard on avoiding "form without essence" that I was basically falling into an "essence without form" trap. The real goal should be to make form reflect essence always.http://www.museworld.com/archives/001701.html GTD (Getting Things Done)- February 26, 2005 So, for a while now I've felt frustrated about feeling overwhelmed with ideas. One thing about me and ideas - I have a lot of 'em. The writing I do on this weblog - mostly politics, lately - probably represents about a fourth of my psychic load, which is why I sometimes go a few days without writing. My other things are basically computer programming, music composing, and financial analysis. That's on top of all the personal maintenance stuff we all have. The combinations get pretty heavy..http://www.museworld.com/archives/001700.html Cursed, Werewolf, whatever- February 25, 2005 A random quote from a random review of the new Wes Craven flick: This is not a process that works. You can't have somebody half finish a script, then start filming, then tell them you want something else and have them rewrite it, then when it's finished try to cut it into something else you thought of later. How many times can you make that mistake and not figure out what's what I'm telling you guys, you just can't make a good movie the way you are trying to make movies. You can't even make a.http://www.museworld.com/archives/001699.html Ideals and Actions- February 19, 2005 Kind of riffing from my earlier entry on hypocrisy, here's an attempt to boil down an underlying rift between left and right. It's all about actions and ideals. The right believes that a strong and powerful set of ideals must be protected at all costs, even if it occasionally means that their actions don't align with their ideals. The left believes that they must reconcile their actions and ideals at all costs, even if it occasionally means that they have to relax their ideals to do...http://www.museworld.com/archives/001698.html DeanPerle Debate Recap- February 18, 2005 Well, that was definitely an experience. Did you hear about the flying shoe Maybe I should back up. Tonight there was a debate between Howard Dean and Richard Perle in Portland, OR. You all know who Dean is. Perle is one of the architects of PNAC, the group that planned the invasion of Iraq long before 911. He's a neocon's neocon, one who will unapologetically defend their aims without bothering to disguise it in froofy talk like Bush does. The debate started with each person giving a..http://www.museworld.com/archives/001697.html Potheads and Cokeheads- February 18, 2005 Pretty funny political insight over at Daily Kos. Its not the Daddy party vs. the Mother party. It's the cokehead party vs. the pothead party. It is no coincidence that I can't stand people on coke and I can't stand Republicans. Potheads Some of the best people I have met are potheads. One party is all about belligerence, overconfidence, and it hates nuance. The other is about reflection, introspection, and making sure there is enough food.http://www.museworld.com/archives/001696.html Dean and Perle- February 18, 2005 I completely lucked into a free ticket to the debate between Howard Dean and Richard Perle, tonight in Portland. This should be really interesting. I don't really care so much about the actual content of the debate because I highly doubt they will say anything I haven't heard before, but the debate techniques will make this interesting. Perle is an odd duck because he's the rare neocon who will actually argue in favor of what the neocons are actually trying to do. Like, in the past he's...http://www.museworld.com/archives/001695.html Gannon: Left Shoots Itself In Foot- February 17, 2005 I'm not a big fan of what is going on with the Jeff Gannon story. I've been a regular on daily kos and saw the first diary come up that wanted to explore the story, and saw all the following revelations about his personal history. I know that most people on the left agree that if not for the hypocrisy, focusing on Gannon's backstory would just be a witch hunt. The defense for publicizing it so loudly is the illustration of the GOP's hypocrisy. The story is, the GOP is about immorality of...http://www.museworld.com/archives/001694.html I Google, Therefore I Am- February 17, 2005 I just had a bizarre moment of online self-awareness. I googled something I was trying to research - the keywords were "quicksilver assign abbreviation", and the sixth entry down was a page on my own damn weblog. Very. very weird. (So, I went and read what I wrote and it didn't even answer my question. Sigh.)http://www.museworld.com/archives/001693.html |