Re: [silk] no news is good news (was: Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan))

2010-05-18 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
What, no bears?

Re: [silk] no news is good news

2010-05-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
J. Alfred Prufrock [18/05/2010 12:25 PM]: What, no bears? She probably has barbeques in her backyard with guest bears in attendance :)

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2010-05-18 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
She probably has barbeques in her backyard with guest bears in attendance :) If her sometime neighbour Palin, S, is to be believed (which takes some credulity) bears go ON the barbeque too. -- J. Alfred Prufrock Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a

Re: [silk] no news is good news

2010-05-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
J. Alfred Prufrock [18/05/2010 12:46 PM]: She probably has barbeques in her backyard with guest bears in attendance :) If her sometime neighbour Palin, S, is to be believed (which takes some credulity) bears go ON the barbeque too. Insert joke about making bear pie .. first catch

Re: [silk] no news is good news

2010-05-18 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Insert joke about making bear pie .. first catch your bear Easier to hang around and wait for it to catch you. Though perhaps less pleasant. -- J. Alfred Prufrock Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman - But who is that on the other side of you?

Re: [silk] no news is good news

2010-05-18 Thread Heather Madrone
At 1:18 PM +0530 5/18/10, J. Alfred Prufrock wrote: Insert joke about making bear pie .. first catch your bear Easier to hang around and wait for it to catch you. Though perhaps less pleasant. Kodiak bears don't have to stoop to a human lunch. They were there first, and they staked out the

Re: [silk] no news is good news

2010-05-18 Thread Heather Madrone
At 11:33 PM +0530 5/17/10, Pranesh Prakash wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 May 2010 10:42 PM, Thaths wrote: Surely being unplugged does not preclude being informed of and participating in _local_ politics and civil society? Engagement with even local politics

Re: [silk] no news is good news (was: Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan))

2010-05-18 Thread Sruthi Krishnan
I watched the clouds arrive, pile their black masses against the black mountains, and dump their bumper crops of rain on the vivid green muskegs. I read my way slowly through the contents of the town library. I walked endlessly. I went to work. I came home. I watched the clock change. I

[silk] no news is good news (was: Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan))

2010-05-17 Thread Heather Madrone
Have you ever tried going a few weeks without consuming news or analysis or news media of any form - I mean cold turkey, no way to whet your appetite. No TV, no radio, no blogs, no podcasts, no magazines, no newspapers. It's remarkably productive. When I lived on Kodiak Island in Alaska,

Re: [silk] no news is good news

2010-05-17 Thread Pranesh Prakash
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 May 2010 08:58 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: I watched the clouds arrive, pile their black masses against the black mountains, and dump their bumper crops of rain on the vivid green muskegs. I read my way slowly through the contents of

Re: [silk] no news is good news

2010-05-17 Thread Thaths
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Pranesh Prakash the.solips...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just wondering about this 'Waldenification' of sorts.  It would seem that continued engagement with the body politic cannot be sustained alongside hermitic, disconnected life.  And what of the responsibility of

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2010-05-17 Thread Pranesh Prakash
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 May 2010 10:42 PM, Thaths wrote: Surely being unplugged does not preclude being informed of and participating in _local_ politics and civil society? Engagement with even local politics would require being plugged in, would it not?

Re: [silk] no news is good news

2010-05-17 Thread Thaths
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Pranesh Prakash the.solips...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 17 May 2010 10:42 PM, Thaths wrote: Surely being unplugged does not preclude being informed of and participating in _local_ politics and civil society? Engagement with even local politics would require