From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V3 #157 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Friday, June 16 2000 Volume 03 : Number 157 Today's Subjects: ----------------- new journal [dwagner@sas.upenn.edu (Dana Wagner)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 03:18:10 -0400 (EDT) From: dwagner@sas.upenn.edu (Dana Wagner) Subject: new journal this is one of the best darn tootin' journals i've read yet from the mind of emm gryner. i love this woman. go, read, enjoy. http://www.emmgryner.com/cgi-bin/journal/journal.cgi?folder=journal&next=39 June 14, 2000 Today's Comments on Headlines and Writer's Block The recent attacks on women in Central Park and the ho-hum response of the NYPD remind me that we have not come any further as a society, and that ignorance is everywhere, and respect seems to be a concept as old and taken-for-granted as running water. Of course, something like this happens and every newspaper starts writing about it and every TV station starts talking about it and sure, we need to know about it, but every day we concentrate on our own woes and forget about the wars that rage in other parts of the world, and the fact that in many countries men and especially women do not even have the most basic kind of freedom that we have known growing up. Oh I hate to start off diaries on a minor note. Today I wish I was famous so I could bring more attention to things that piss me off. I wish all the loonsthat occupy the Top 10 these days were a bit more vocal about important things - they don't have to be grossly political - but I remember sitting at a Britney Spears concert (yes, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I went, but only because I had a crush on the sound man who was working for the opening band) and I saw thousands of 7 year old girls sitting there with their moms cheering their hearts out. And it's not pop culture or fun music or plastic pants or lipstick or horribly stiff choreography I object to. I say, BRING IT ON! But imagine if Britney just took 2 seconds to speak about something that mattered. Everyone would go home smiling, but also maybe think about something other than the Tommy Hilfiger capri pants her backup singers were wearing. Ok, maybe she doesn't even have to say it at the concert. Maybe it could be a section on her website. Or a fund. I mean, come on, even Tom Green has the Tom Green's Nuts Cancer Fund. I watched Tom's cancer operation and thought, hey - here's this incredible concept. Someone everyone thinks is crazy and funny bringing attention to a disease that touches everyone. And surprise, nobody thinks less of him. Anyway, enough of my rant. A few of my friends are expressing some disenchantment over the lack of creative flow in their lives. Oh, please don't worry about these sorts of things. Go out and live! Glow-in-the-dark bowling and parachuting and road trips and karaoke! Rock climbing and disco dancing and kissing and soccer matches! All of the commentary comes between all the living. See a good band, and sing their songs. Don't sing their songs and then wonder why you haven't written something as genius as "Don't Deflate" (Thank You Ian)...just write your own bloody songs! You are brilliant! You are a miracle! And now I'm starting to sound like Sark. I started off like the Grim Reaper and I'm ending off like Sark. I don't know if I'm losing it or have just had too much caffeine. ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V3 #157 ***********************************