Attack my blog, attack me.

So you're pissed you can't write about the latest anime you watched or how your bacon overload recipe or give your friends yet another dose of done-to-death lolcat humor. You think YOU'VE got problems? Please to be reading link to Voice of America. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Russians-Battle-Over-Internet-Freedom-119494969.html


www.readwriteweb.com/archives/thousands_of_bloggers_struggle_to_withstand_wave_o.php

"Cynics might shrug at the troubles of the no-longer dominant blogging/social networking service, but attacks against LiveJournal are attacks against the voices of people who choose to use that platform to publish and subscribe to the world. [Emphasis mine.] The ability for any everyday person to publish their thoughts and subscribe freely to their personal interests in the world is a precious historical anomaly."

That's right. It's not just an attack on President Medveyev and other Russian users, it's an attack on ME. It's an attack on YOU. It's an attack on our right to free speech. It's an attack on folks I don't know who post beautiful photographs of what they see in the places they live on lj_photophile . It's an attack on those nice folks who invited me to Be Japanese with them this summer in Siberia. (Not enough vacation time to devote to the flight plus several days on the Trans Siberian Railway, not to mention $$$, but wouldn't that be something?)

Tanka challenge 4/8/11

Fox paws on the roof
Patter even as the sun
Peeps through the window.
The afternoon is confused
By rain and wind off the bay.

I can haz art

Remember how I shot a tree in the Taco Bell drivethrough through my windshield with the wipers off a week or so ago? It made the Photo of the Week poll.

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_photophile/2229751.html

It's solidly in last place behind the other finalists. Do take note of the gushing over the cat. Anything with a cat in it gets gooshy comments and lots of votes.

See, told ya response to art is completely subjective.

In unrelated news, I saw a story about a photo exhibition at a small gallery here on The Island - and of course, you can't actually see the photos online in the story, though a few are on the gallery website here.  So I thought, that's kind of cool and started poking around to see what it would take to submit something to hang there and realized it would probably cost me more to print, mount, frame, become a member ($65/year, plus $20 submission fee for each thematic exhibit) and give them their cut (45% of any sale) than it would be worth - assuming anyone would actually buy anything. I have no idea if this is usual as I've never done this sort of thing, but 45% commission? For a photo by unknown me at a little local gallery that gets an unknown amount of traffic? Think I'd be losing money on this vain little scheme? Yeah. Me too.

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Headachy this afternoon, possibly as a result of my sinuses mimicking a barometer, combined with working on a brain numbing make-work project at work. Definitely glad I decided not to attempt to camp this weekend, particularly as the site logistics mean carrying (or dragging a wagon) from the parking area to wherever one ends up pitching a tent. (Don't get me wrong, it's a pretty park and we're lucky to have a good relationship with the county and be able to use it, but the portaging of crap gets old pretty quickly.) I'm going to try to get a decent night's sleep and day trip the event.

Just watched The Men Who Stare At Goats, which was fun. I admit I wasn't sure whether I was going to like it, but it was pretty good.