Misheru

You know, I’ve decided that blogging is a lot like breastfeeding. (more…)

I am on a diet, so I went out and bought some Newman’s “Hint O’Mint” creme cookies today.
Naturally.
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I’m reading Anne LaMott’s newest book called, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith. I love Anne LaMott. She might be the only person I know of to write about faith and God and not want to make me gag on purile cliche’s and meaningless platitudes. Which might be why her non-fiction has outdistanced her fiction to be on the New York Times Bestseller lists. Operating Instructions might have been the best book about being a first-time mother I have ever read. (more…)

If I haven’t posted on here for a while, it’s because I’ve been busy having a second childhood, playing on the Nickleodeon website, nick.com. Yes, few of my friends understand the thrill. I am collecting Avatar e-cards, and my good friend L kept saying, “But can you sell them for money?” and I would respond, “No.” “But you sell them.” “Yes, for Nick Points.” “And what do you do with Nick Points?” “Buy more trading cards.” But really, even money itself is just paper — its worth is in our heads. We haven’t held to the Gold Standard since the “Roosevelt Recession” in 1937, when Roosevelt said that we couldn’t return to the gold standard until we balanced the budget. Sounds a bit laughable, 68 years later and some trillions in debt, doesn’t it? But getting back to Nick Points, there is inflation, foolish bidding, and all the other problems that comes with assigning worth to something, except that in the end, I get cool electronic cards that take up no space in my storage, and I never lose a dime. Might be hard to understand for some, but it’s perfect for the kid in me.

I was looking over some of the news articles by Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist who was held captive for a month by Iraqi insurgents. Interestingly enough, 35 minutes after her release she was nearly killed by U.S. troops as she was trying to exit Iraq. There are some theories that this was “accidentally on-purpose,” as she found some pretty controversial stuff — you can read about a woman who spent time in Abu Ghraib here, and there are other stories in the Il Manifesto, an Italian newspaper. This particular story about prisoner abuse brought to mind a quote from the (in)famous Nietzsche, Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Not much to add to that, and thanks to Nafisi, who put that poignant and timeless quote into her book.