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Thursday, September 11, 2003

Regrets...
I've had a few.
But then again,
Too few to mention!
--"My Way",
written by Paul Anka
When I hear that song, I think of Frank Sinatra, and sometimes Elvis or Sid Vicious -- all of whom have been known to perform, in their own unique manner, that wonderful song. Wonderful because -- though I don't always enjoy hearing it, I've heard it so much -- the song is a wonderful personal anthem. That's something we all need: a personal anthem. A song that praises our individuality; a mark of devotion to oneself. After all, they say you're going to have a helluva time loving anyone else unless you've first learned to love yourself, right?

This is not to replace your love for your God, or your spouse, or your family. I'm simply saying that we all need to give ourselves a bit more self-love at this time of year. (No, not that type of self-love !) Too many of us beat up on ourselves throughout the year, and then nearly destroy ourselves at year's end. No wonder there are so many suicides during the Holidays; the messages bombarding us are to Buy Buy Buy and to Give Give Give -- but what if you have nothing to give but love? If you have a dearth of that good stuff, then you'll have a bitch of a time spreading it around to your neighbors.

So be good to yourself, whether you're Christian, Pagan, Wiccan, Athiest, Hindu, Islamic, Mormon, Podcastin, or otherwise. Don't take the pills, they won't do you or anyone else any good; you'll simply miss out on the Next Big Thing (which may turn out to be Your Next Big Thing). Just do things your own way, singing that little hymn as you do so:
For what is a man,
What has he got?
If not himself,
Then he has naught.
To say the things,
He truly feels,
And not the words,
Of one who kneels.
The record shows,
I took the blows
And did it my way!

Thursday, January 22, 2004

Let's kick start this thing again. I feel like I have so much more freedom with this blog--with Transmitting to Earth, my other blog, I'm still deciding whether or not to keep my commentary strictly professional or whether to include anything personal. Now that I've got a real web host for my Internet radio project VoyagerRadio and a new broadband stream, I feel the project has a new level of seriousness. I would like to attract more artists and record labels to the station, and I'm apprehensive about integrating a personal blog with website. So, until I decide, I'll continue to experiment here at Something That Happened.

My apologies for being absent from this space for so long--it's been turmoil as of late. Not in a bad way--although certainly not in the best of ways, either. Yet things have stabilized, more or less. We've all got our problems, right? You can't ever expect them to fully dissipate--you can just hope the waters will calm down every once in awhile. Right now the waters are relatively calm, although beneath the surface the sharks are still swimming.

So I'll renew my acquintance with Something That Happened by turning you on to a blog I rediscovered today, written by Anne Hefley, another Joe Frank admirer. The blog is called Anne...straight from the hip, and deserves to be well-read--mainly, because it's well-written. I had been going through my blogroll (a list of links to other blogs) to see which blogs I was still interested in linking to, and as I was about to delete Anne's link I began reading past the first few paragraphs of her most recent post. I found myself absorbed by her "stories"--her style was natural and felt honest, yet wasn't the juvenile fare you find on most blogsites. This journal read like a professional memoir--or at least, the makings of one. Anne is a fine writer and will probably make for an excellent novelist. Read for yourself.
posted by Harold  1/22/2004 05:07:00 PM
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I once posted, in this space (this right column), the following:

If I had friends they would be listed here

That particular bit o' text, that silly and idiotic phrase, was repeated a dozen or two dozen or so times and was intended to be temporary. I had been working on a project -- a new layout for this blog -- and had intended for that text to be placeholder content. That is, the text was supposed to temporarily replace the content that had previously occupied this column (which was a list of links to friends -- that is, other blogs and web sites I linked to). I didn't know what content I was going to place into that (this) space, so I placed a bunch of duplicate phrases here as a placeholder so that I would remember to fill in this space again later.

At the same time, I thought I was being cute with the heading:

NEW & IMPROVED FRIENDS!

The fact remains: I still don't know what content to put here, in this column. Links again? Pictures? Video? Audio? Ads? Oh, hell no! It hasn't come to me yet, but I'm sure it will eventually, and when it does it'll come quick and (as usual) with consequences.