It wasn't ALL
consuming, but it did help itself to big handfuls of a brain that doesn't have a lot to spare.At any rate, people like their own politics. No one wants to sit through mine, even if I couldn't fathom anyone NOT being excited by the going ons in the land o' the pyramids. Of course, I like a good protest that threatens to turn into a revolution. I like velvet revolutions best of all, but I don't think the method matters too much to the critics or the armchair quarterbacks.
A lot of people were and remain concerned about the aftermath. The vacuum always wants filling and until there's a clear successor to whoever filled it be
fore, those folks are not resting. A cruel slapdown, the kind where people disappear is always a possibility. Big chaos, that disrupts business as usual, is also a possibility.Some of the critics just didn't like what they perceived to be naive cheerleading from the social networks' sidelines. Actually, their perception was probably very close to reality. I'm sure there was breathtaking ignorance among the cheerleaders.
A lot of heroic efforts wouldn't have been even attempted if the heroes had gone and thought about it. Knowing stuff has a tendency to make us awfully cautious.
Anyway. I decided to NOT write anything about Egypt. Nothing at all. I started practicing drawing in a new way. Loosier and goosier. I'm not very good at it. Loosey and goosey and cartoony I
can do with a pen, but a pencil makes me draw more realistically. Enough of that, say I. Off with realism's head, I say.That was a little too violent. I take it back. Realism can keep its head. Just ... move over. Let the loosey goosey stuff in.
Please?
I'd make a good revolutionary, but I'd probably be a polite one.
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I want loosey goosey too. Why is it so hard to achieve? Is it because we're too polite?
Does a pen make us draw more realistically because it has a drag?
Maybe we should stop practicing loosey goosey and just let loose the goosey.
p.s. What's behind the veil? Will we soon find out?
I like them! I think they're rad! (Or even radda, which is today's word veri and obviously means "even more rad!") ;)
Some time back I remarked on my nlog how these Arab shabab (young men) had all this technology 2.whatever and the power to freely assemble and freely express yet so far as I could tell, they mostly seemed resigned to using these gadgets mostly to swap photos of nekkid women. I now stand corrected and say "Well done laddies."
The Egypt story has been fascinating. It will be very interesting to see what happens nest. It is far more interesting than any soap opera on TV.
I love your loosey goosey stuff (and I love the term loosey goosey).
Linda: Sigh. That IS the age old question. Well, it's a question I've asked myself for a lot of years that add up to a lot of my age, and so, for ME, it's age old.
And I'm not all that polite. I have fairly good manners, but those are mostly surface. The stuff underneath is not polite at all. This is a LONG way of agreeing with the letting loose of the goose.
(And I'm good with a pen. It's the pencil that makes me do realistic (and these were attempted with one of those. I do NOT draw with a pencil uninterrupted. I get sketchy.) (And behind the veil is only referring to snowfall.)
Syd: There could really stand to be a new dictionary issued, like they have for crossword puzzlers. :)
Mimi'sFatherlyFigure: You know, that's interesting. Waiting for leadership, waiting for the rhetoric and private complaints to grow into a shape? You can lead a man to communication devices, but you can't give him the good stuff to communicate?
Mom: Fascinating, indeedy. I actually think right now, before the 'what happens next' is the most fascinating. Okay. Not fascinating, but full of tickety-tick-tick possibilities that put even very distant observers IN it.
The global experience, you know? At least, that's what I think.
Loosey goosey - who knew I'd aspire to it? Ha!
I find watercooler pencils are the funnest medium ever for coloring outside the lines. Now, for entertaining your inner boy's need for getting dirty, nothing beats charcoals. Bringing down dictators requires the rigid, uncompromising discipline of blogging.
Blexcia!
Anonymussed: Some day, one day, I'm going to give those pencils a try. People who are not me seem to love them very much.
Maybe you're right. I've been pretty diligent and disciplined lately and see? See what's happening?
I love the loosey goosey and would love to be able to draw that way. The Egypt thing is pretty interesting. I also think it's funny that some people are comparing that to what's going on in Wisconsin now...
Oh me, too, Churlita. Loosey and goosey'd be good.
Oh, Wisconsin. What the hell? (And really, they need to put that comparison away.)
What Mimi's Pa said. (so he also has a kid named Mimi? I thought I was the only one...)
Mari: I think his kidlet's a cat. He has many wonderful things to say, that Mimi'sDad. He's a truly gifted writer, the old school kind, the kind that teases atmosphere and texture and stuff you didn't think possible out of the language. He doesn't blog much any more, but when he did ...
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