tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post1201396366998086609..comments2023-10-08T05:00:23.559-04:00Comments on Clarissa's Blog: Obama and OsamaClarissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-87379265927688915562011-05-14T12:06:40.062-04:002011-05-14T12:06:40.062-04:00I just hope you don't abandon my blog for thei...I just hope you don't abandon my blog for theirs. :-)Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-61872978609382990422011-05-14T12:00:26.068-04:002011-05-14T12:00:26.068-04:00Thank you! I'll definitely check all of them o...Thank you! I'll definitely check all of them out.elnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-70527514239543474552011-05-14T11:58:12.790-04:002011-05-14T11:58:12.790-04:00Sorry, when I recommended a post about Anonymity o...Sorry, when I recommended a post about Anonymity on Internet, I thought about this reaction of his to readers' reaction to that post:<br />http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2007/11/swift-reactions-5.html<br /> It isn't even his best.elnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-76361146637373294922011-05-14T11:45:36.425-04:002011-05-14T11:45:36.425-04:00I can't publish the entire list of the blogs I...I can't publish the entire list of the blogs I follow because it's now close to 300 blogs and that will make the homepage load forever. But I can give you a list of the Russian-language blogs I follow right here.<br /><br />In no particular order:<br /><br />http://nnn744.livejournal.com/ - This is a blog by a woman I know from another forum. We said some really vile stuff to each other over the years. But I always recognized that she writes well and it was actually me who recommended that she start a blog.<br /><br />http://valery-kichin.livejournal.com/ - A blog by a very talented film critic in Russia<br /><br />http://arbatovagidepar.livejournal.com/ - a blog by a brilliant writer and feminist who influenced me profoundly. My interest in psychology and my take-no-prisoners style of arguing on this blog come from her. :-) I hate many of the things she says but the woman is brilliant.<br /><br />http://becky-sharpe.livejournal.com/ - This is a blog by a woman I would have become had I not emigrated. She often writes about completely silly stuff but she writes so amazingly well that I have read every single post from her archives dating back to 2006. Twice. <br /><br />http://accion-positiva.livejournal.com/ - a feminist blog. Has some very good links.<br /><br />These are the only ones I follow in Russian.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-74771220262666946942011-05-14T08:41:14.490-04:002011-05-14T08:41:14.490-04:00I wanted to ask whether you have another blog or s...I wanted to ask whether you have another blog or something from which one could see the blogs you follow. I would be interested in blogs like yours and Ian's (politics, feminism, a sense of humor is a huge plus) in English and Russian. For some reason I couldn't find any interesting blogs in Russian. <br /><br />One of my favorites was Jon Swift's parody political US blog. In real life he was a journalist and stopped blogging, when he died. One couldn't stop laughing. Do you know somebody similar? F.e. he wrote "Pseudonym-Americans Fight Back" in defense of Internet freedom:<br />http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2007/11/pseudonym-americans-fight-back.html<br />His archives in general are interesting.elnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-22141637615167438092011-05-13T23:16:57.845-04:002011-05-13T23:16:57.845-04:00So sorry.So sorry.Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-25741101459817570822011-05-13T23:12:40.957-04:002011-05-13T23:12:40.957-04:00Oh, don't do that to a person who doesn't ...Oh, don't do that to a person who doesn't have Facebook access!Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-56305250152449945922011-05-13T23:03:22.502-04:002011-05-13T23:03:22.502-04:00The reference to Indonesia suggests this one may h...The reference to Indonesia suggests this one may have been deliberate. Still, I'm happy (for) to give the benefit of the doubt for the example above. But not for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=208528069167457&id=100001529412008" rel="nofollow">this</a>.Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-35730913968393684132011-05-13T22:37:46.460-04:002011-05-13T22:37:46.460-04:00I know that the mistake is easy to make but I was ...I know that the mistake is easy to make but I was seriously scared here. Blogger has been down, so I thought that maybe I'd missed some important news.<br /><br />It's such a dramatic beginning for a post, too.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-1576042928032165112011-05-13T22:16:35.025-04:002011-05-13T22:16:35.025-04:00This is embarrassing, but I made the same error no...This is embarrassing, but I made the same error not once but TWICE in a post last week. My husband later said he'd done the same on Facebook - and another friend confessed to it too. Those were the only two people I talked with about (apart from the two gracious readers who pointed out my gaffe). I realize N=3 isn't terribly conclusive, but I'm guessing it's a very, very common typo. <br /><br />Upon reflection, I realized I have typed Obama many hundreds or even thousands of time since I started blogging in 2008. I'm a fast typist. I rely on finger memory. I had only typed "Osama" ONCE in over three years of blogging. <br /><br />I'm sure I've still got a piece of racism planted deep within me - but I think the culprit behind my typos was plain old finger habits.<br /><br />The other factor? Haste in proofreading. I was heading out the door to pick up kids, so I hit publish, and bing! Before that, I was multitasking (as bloggers are wont to do), which certainly didn't help my cause.<br /><br />So be easy on this poor writer. It stinks to have to give up the moral high-horse, as I've now had to do regarding the Faux News bloviators who couldn't keep the names straight, either!Sungoldhttp://kittywampus.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com