The Russian spy story of 2010 reminds us of how critical a role we have played in each other’s lives.
Summer vacations can also be ventures away from habit – especially when it comes to the U.S. media and the discussions they generate.
Drowning in Verbiage: A Response to a Swedish Blog on American Government
Blogging, Contemporary Communications, Crossing Cultures, Law, Societal Spin, Sweden, US Law, US in the World, Writing and Editing
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Jun 172010
I’ve been pondering my Swedish friend Pelotard’s marvelous blog about his American grill – that is, ever since I finished laughing over it. I’ve also savored the vision of how we might change our commentary on government policies to the type former Prime Minister Carl Bildt received. Less talk, more lunch boxes would be greatly [...]
Your own thoughts, emotional habits, and actions in the past have been the primary focus of creating your current experience in the world. And every time you react to another person or thing with a particular set of thoughts or emotions, you’re deepening a tendency to see a world based on those types of projections…. [...]
May 272010
The funny thing about blogging is, if you’ve been on a computer doing something else for two weeks straight, coming back to it doesn’t feel at all like a return. What does feel strange is the act of writing. After a fortnight of immersion in the vocabulary of the body as captured on film, and [...]
Mar 282010
A few weeks ago, my friend’s Norwegian husband was in Philadelphia and visited the University of Pennsylvania photography-and-text exhibit “Righteous Dopefiend.” When we got together for dinner a week later, he made the point, “I know what a dopefiend is, and I know what ‘righteous’ is, but what do the two mean together?” As a [...]
Philadelphia has just completed a gorgeous, 70-degree F week (that’s in the 20s C, for all you civilized souls who use the metric system)* as the city entered springtime – and corresponding with the emergence of people from their homes were two blogs on happiness. The first is from my friend and fellow blogger at [...]
3 Things Nick Skyler Might Do about the Chile Earthquake: A Tribute to Steve Biko
Blogging, Contemporary Communications, SEO, Societal Spin, The Internet, Writing and Editing
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Mar 052010
At the start of my previous blog, I said I’d explain my passive-aggressive approach to search-engine optimization (SEO) in headlines. That was the passive blog post; this is the aggressive one. Let me start by saying that, yes, I know the name is Nick Schuyler, not Nick Skyler. And, yes, I know that his story [...]
The end of February is giving rise to a kind of media, climatic, and geographical mass effect. The 16th day of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics came on the heels of another Northeast U.S. snowstorm (the third of the month, but in Philadelphia, happily, the least bothersome) and on the day of the seventh-largest earthquake in [...]