skippy the bush kangaroo

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

this just in on the Wire ...

One of the benefits of attending the very lovely blogger party skippy wrote about earlier is that I got to see beloved friends like s. himself, she who is known as Leah and radiates positivity, the angelic & beautiful cookie jill, the ever engaging David Ehrenstein (David, I re-rented Performance and a Donald Cammell documentary from Cinefile after our talk), and my very dear heart Ellen of The Broad View.

Another was meeting new friends like Brad Friedman. Yet another was that I was reminded how much I enjoy reading CorrenteWire - even though (neurosis alert!) when they wrote up the party, they listed all the swell people who attended - but didn't even mention moi! "Who can remember them all?" they write. The "them all" there, that would be me, I guess ...

... and even though, when they wrote this quite-interesting piece - which says that the dominant right-wing emotion is "fear" and asking what the Left's should be - they don't even credit me with my immediate suggestion: "post-coital bliss." "As was raised at the party ..." they say. Raised by ... "oh, who can remember them all?"

Everybody's had that feeling: I'm invisible! What am I, chicken liver? Hel-lo! Jeez, if I still drank ...

So then, what is my emotion? Insecurity and self-doubt.

Actually, I know "bliss" is not exactly an emotion - but I'll take it over most other options. Neither is "hope" (one of CW's suggestions), so I guess it's back to the drawing board. I wrote up a suggestion for Wesley Clark once: Fun & excitement. Would anybody buy that from the Left? Anyhoo ...

... I'll go see my therapist now while you guys read Corrente Wire. ("You see, I was a shy and retiring child, much giving to reading, painting, and listening to music while the other kids ...") Some hide their neuroses. Others go to the keyboard. (Besides, I'm kidding - sorta!)
posted by RJ Eskow at 9:27 AM |

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