Comments on: Apologies to Wordsworth

By: unreliable narrator

unreliable narrator — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:30:15 +0000

PS also I’m giving up sugar too! When, you ask? When they pry it from my cold, dead, post-apocalyptic fingers, that’s when. ;o)

By: unreliable narrator

unreliable narrator — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:29:00 +0000

“The Machine Stops” = story I wanted to use from the beginning for End of the World class; only very recently rejected as not very interesting in terms of gender! The thing I love most about it: um, EM FORSTER?!?

By: Mara Collins

Mara Collins — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:55:44 +0000

I believe in giving up sugar, it's just that giving sugar up has made Raven so much more patient and even that he can handle it when I crash off a sugar high, so now I don't need to give it up!'' And the only way I could give up the internet is if all of you did so that I wouldn't be missing something important. Also, bringing in Rewilding? Makes me love you. And the irony that I can use the internet to go read The Machine Stops right now if I wish to.

By: jenny

jenny — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:46:18 +0000

I was serious, man. I’m giving up sugar. Just not today…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:01:15 +0000

“The Machine stops” comes to mind, and rewilding, not that I am for it, mind you, I think connection is a good thing, and all those people that tell you we need to live like our hunter gatherer forefathers seem a little at odds with their blogs and their twitters proclaiming such. Not that the machine is working so well right now either, perhaps a fine-tuning is in order, one that allows me to have my sugar and eat it too? (and not always tasting so damn much like corn!) Still when the breaks are out and the car is plummeting down the steep side of a mountain, it’s hard to say “don’t jump off just yet, I think we can get it working” to those who see opportunities to leap away at every corner…

By: unreliable narrator

unreliable narrator — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:48:54 +0000

Oh those smug sugar-free people. How I long to run past them waving an open bottle of organic white agave nectar tauntingly! ;o)

That reminds me—I just got sucked into my feed reader and left my breakfast (plain yogurt with agave) sitting on the windowsill, where it’s been sitting, fermenting happily in the morning sun, since I got distracted, stripped and remade two beds, rearranged my office, hung up clean clothes from last weekend, and carted out several loads of dirty laundry to the front of the house. Oh, that’s right—it hasn’t always been just the Internet that distracts women! And William, thank God, had Dorothy to do the washing-up.

PMS week, come to think of it, might be an ideal week for me to give up the Internet once a month….

By: Raven Zachary

Raven Zachary — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:25:55 +0000

Hey, watch it!

By: jenny

jenny — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:55:21 +0000

“The connection cannot meaning endow,
It moves us not.”

Boy, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it. Today I say it isn’t so – look what blogging has done for us, for starters. But other days… well, you’re preachin’ to the choir.

How ’bout an Internet-free week? Not now, of course. You know, later. Like when we’re going to go sugar-free…