Comments on: The grim realities of Wednesday Morning http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/06/06/the-grim-realities-of-wednesday-morning/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:11:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Zapaper http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/06/06/the-grim-realities-of-wednesday-morning/#comment-35018 Zapaper Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:05:31 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/06/06/the-grim-realities-of-wednesday-morning/#comment-35018 I'm sorry you're feeling so lousy AT. I am amused by the idea of candidates blogging, and of you liking the candidate in part because she blogs. I think I read somewhere about someone being a myspace friend with Obama but dropping him because he was too high-maintenance. But blogging... I often think that, even if you make an effort to the contrary, it's impossible not to--in some way--be yourself on a blog. Over time authenticity just shines through. That makes it a unique genre as far as I'm concerned. I once tested this proposition by trying to write a blog that was riddled with lies and would not reflect who I really am. But I just couldn't keep it up. Somehow the truth is more interesting. Or maybe a better way to put it is, it's impossible to summon the energy for anything more than the truth... I’m sorry you’re feeling so lousy AT. I am amused by the idea of candidates blogging, and of you liking the candidate in part because she blogs. I think I read somewhere about someone being a myspace friend with Obama but dropping him because he was too high-maintenance. But blogging… I often think that, even if you make an effort to the contrary, it’s impossible not to–in some way–be yourself on a blog. Over time authenticity just shines through. That makes it a unique genre as far as I’m concerned. I once tested this proposition by trying to write a blog that was riddled with lies and would not reflect who I really am. But I just couldn’t keep it up. Somehow the truth is more interesting. Or maybe a better way to put it is, it’s impossible to summon the energy for anything more than the truth…

]]> By: RLGelber http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/06/06/the-grim-realities-of-wednesday-morning/#comment-35020 RLGelber Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:19:22 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/06/06/the-grim-realities-of-wednesday-morning/#comment-35020 Maybe Target will decide to move to Midtown, right in my backyard. Now that'd be sweet! Maybe Target will decide to move to Midtown, right in my backyard. Now that’d be sweet!

]]> By: Ellen Smith http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/06/06/the-grim-realities-of-wednesday-morning/#comment-35070 Ellen Smith Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:04:28 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/06/06/the-grim-realities-of-wednesday-morning/#comment-35070 Thanks for blogging through the headache, AT. I was in no shape to blog this morning. I spent the day (at work, even) feeling pretty out of it, due to a condition that I blame on re-using the same water bottle for too many days of campaigning. Let that be a lesson for me! Also thanks for your confidence, or at least your sorta-confidence. I'm not sure what a hippie on City Council is supposed to do, and at age 54 I don't think I can wear the label of hippie real well, but.... I don't share your pessimistic interpretation about the meaning of the failure of the bond issue. If you show Oak Ridgers a well-designed public-private deal that offers clear public value for the public money, that is backed by solid information and analysis, and that is not suddenly sprung on the community with a hucksterish "buy now or lose the chance forever" spiel -- then I predict that people will support (or at least not oppose) the deal. I realize that the characterization of Oak Ridgers as codgers who are opposed to all forms of "progress" was effective in convincing some people to support Crestpointe ("I guess I had better support Crestpointe to prove we aren't like that..."), but that doesn't make it true. Thanks for blogging through the headache, AT. I was in no shape to blog this morning. I spent the day (at work, even) feeling pretty out of it, due to a condition that I blame on re-using the same water bottle for too many days of campaigning. Let that be a lesson for me!

Also thanks for your confidence, or at least your sorta-confidence. I’m not sure what a hippie on City Council is supposed to do, and at age 54 I don’t think I can wear the label of hippie real well, but….

I don’t share your pessimistic interpretation about the meaning of the failure of the bond issue. If you show Oak Ridgers a well-designed public-private deal that offers clear public value for the public money, that is backed by solid information and analysis, and that is not suddenly sprung on the community with a hucksterish “buy now or lose the chance forever” spiel — then I predict that people will support (or at least not oppose) the deal. I realize that the characterization of Oak Ridgers as codgers who are opposed to all forms of “progress” was effective in convincing some people to support Crestpointe (”I guess I had better support Crestpointe to prove we aren’t like that…”), but that doesn’t make it true.

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