It's November 1st, and that means that it's the first official day of NaBloPoMo. I'd start this month out with a bang, but I have nothing to bang on about, not yet, anyway. I'm working on it. Right now, I'm just at work, nursing sore toes (stupid new boots! stupid huge blisters!) and reading Michael Strahan's book about being a football player. I'm also trying to come up with something else to say, and I did think I would blog extensively about Susan Faludi's book, The Terror Dream, except that now I can't think of anything to say except for shrill warnings about how dangerous the response to 9/11 really was. I'm not sure that the book was fantastic; it was actually really scary, even if Faludi did try to end it on an upbeat note. I've read a LOT of crap in the last year or so about how scared Americans are and that we have to stop being so scared and we're scared of the wrong things. And probably it's all true. But you can't unscare the portion of America that is too stupid to read the newspaper or watch the nightly news. And anyway, what good would it do if those people did take in more informational media? Informational media seems to be in on this attempt to scare us all into submission. Which is mostly Faludi's point, I think. Although the book focuses more on women, and the 9/11 myth's effect on them. It was interesting. You should read it, if you're interested in such things. (I actually listened to it, though. Another attempt at non-fiction audiobook that was only slightly successful. I'm not good at non-fiction listening. It's too hard to follow, at times. But I'm not sure I would have done much better with the actual book, so....)
Anyway, that's all I have for right this moment. I promised to blog every day, but I didn't promise to be interesting every day. And who knows? Maybe I'll get inspired later this afternoon.
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