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Below you’ll find a list of blogs that have touched my blog, and so my life, lately. These, of course, in addition to the blogs and websites and e-mail correspondents that are already part of my electronic neighborhood.
I made this list and then reading over it I was struck by its wide-ranging nature – geographically and intellectually, these are people I would be highly unlikely to encounter in the regular routine of my life. It’s why I keep writing and reading blogs. It’s why we need to keep the internet free and accessible to all.
Meredith Sue Willis is a Blogger now, with a redesigned page about: Notes on Books, Culture, Politics, Weather, my Personal Weather, and the Garden.
Sour Duck is another Blogger of interest. We share a sort of limited interest in Bubble Yum and Dubble Bubble — though my years working for the Wrigley Company sort of muted my interest in chewing gum of any kind — in indie music and poetry. She takes me visiting the Bay Area.
Shamash Says so many interesting things and her blog is visually as lush as the country “Somewhere in Asia,” where she is teaching. An odd place for a woman of Pennsylvania Amish extraction to wind up perhaps but she brings a wonderful perspective to her experiences and lets us see glimpses of life we will never get from the big media.
Robin Kemp has a re-designed WordPress blog page. I give her kudos for blog title: Every Poet Needs a Patio. She has strong New Orleans connections and is very active blogging about poetry, so I suggest you give her a click through.
My post on the Judy Sizemore benefit got picked up by the Breast Cancer Treatment blog: “Breast cancer treatment, breast cancer information, breast cancer symptom, breast cancer awareness.”
Save the Internet I’ve already mentioned. If you’re interested in network neutrality, give them a visit.
And hey, I guess you all know by now that you can listen to all of Neil Young’s “Living With War” at his website,
Neil’s Garage? I’ve been a bit miffed at Neil since he said, soon after September 11, 2001, that we could give up a few of our civil liberties. “We can always get them back again.” And then there was that “Let’s Roll” song. On the other hand, there’s that brilliant soundtrack to “Dead Man.” And now this album, which may not be great rock and roll, but it does contain a song entitled “Let’s Impeach the President.” Neil as bellwether?
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3 Comments
1. Melinda (Sour Duck) replies at 1st May 2006, 9:03 pm :
Surprised and honored to be included in your links post, Sherry!
I have a passing familiarity with Shamash from feminist circles (or I See Invisible People, I can’t recall which) but will check out the others, who are new to me…
(P.S. - Did you really work in Wrigleys? And - is there something gruesome that goes on in gum factories I should know about?
(Blink one for “no”, twice for “yes”.
Don’t want Wrigley’s to sue your good self. ;))
2. sherry replies at 2nd May 2006, 6:00 am :
No fears, Sour Duck. No gruesome secrets about Wrigley’s gum. “A wholesome prophylactic product” as one consumer fan letter read. At that time, I only knew one use for prophylactics so I got a giggle out of that, but I was an ignorant and naive girl and could never take chewing gum as deadly serious as I was expected to.
I worked for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, in that lovely ice-cream cake building on the Chicago River that I heard rumors they were going to sell and turn into condos or something, from 1972 to 1978. They were an excellent employer with wonderful benefits that I didn’t fully appreciate. I was young and it was the pre-Reagan years when we all thought we’d actually have retirement funds for our old age.
Every day, twice a day, a young woman with a tray came around and you could take as much chewing gum as you wanted. And I got a tour of the factory, where essence of Juicy Fruit could be smelled for blocks around. Made your eyes water, but it wasn’t toxic. So it’s just that I got my fill of chewing gum. And Wrigley’s never did make a decent bubble gum.
I’m not sure what Wrigley’s environmental stance was. Chicle is a rain-forest product that at one time was tapped from trees like maple syrup so they weren’t into cutting things down. At one time, folks were trying to use chicle to make rubber and, according to company literature, it was the young entrepreneur William Wrigley Jr who got the notion of making a confection of it. When I worked there, Wrigley’s gum was still made with some percentage of chicle because no synthetic had been found with a proper texture. I don’t know now.
TMI?? Sorry. Your question spurred a walk down memory lane.
You have been graciously present here on several occasions, Melinda, and I am honored and grateful that you spend some of your time with me.
3. shamash replies at 3rd May 2006, 5:59 am :
Thanks for the shout-out, sherry. I’ll be sure to check out these links.
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