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- BitterGrace
- TN, United States
- My blogs will tell you everything you want to know, maybe more. If not, send me an email. I don't bite. Usually.
Some of my articles, essays, and interviews
- "Doll in Shadow" (Guernica)
- "Girl, Alone" (Nashville Scene)
- "in Search of Darkness" (NYT)
- "The Humanitarian's Dilemma" (Chapter 16)
- Blas Falconer interview
- Elizabeth Spencer interview
- Haitian Art / Q&A with Madison Smartt Bell
- John Updike interview
- Kay Ryan interview
- Margaret Atwood interview
- Mark Jarman interview
- Molly Peacock interview
- Richard Bausch interview
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Labels
- Poetry (369)
- Gallery of Antique Smut (230)
- Unscented reviews (68)
- One Sentence Perfume Reviews (66)
- Perfume (59)
- Bloviations (51)
- Blogging the Madinis (12)
- Poetry for the Dead (9)
- The Creep (9)
- Mystery of Musk (8)
- Monsters (7)
- Nio speaks (7)
- Random Rave (7)
- Real World Perfume (7)
- Beautiful Children (5)
- Hags (5)
- Scent made visible (5)
- Bring Out Your Dead: A Perfume Series (4)
- New Orleans (4)
- New York (4)
- Dolor of Autumn: A Perfume Series (2)
- Introductions (2)
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- The Fall
- This'll banish your Monday blues
- A different nymph
- Beyond Endless War
- One Sentence Perfume Review: Lotus, Ava Luxe
- Poetry, Lilies, Owls
- Erotica
- Still busy reading
- I'm feeling the need to run away ...
- Today is the Vernal Equinox
- Snail sex!
- This is not a real post
- It's St. Patrick's Day ...
- Today is the fifth anniversary of the death of Rac...
- "...And night is night."
- Why don't we let Koko Taylor....
- Everybody's a critic
- The Barbarians were here
- Signal-to-Noise
- In Dreams
- Something beautiful for Monday
- I'm not feeling any less snarky about Internationa...
- March 8 is International Women's Day
- "...the world has become a museum"
- Okay, it's official
- It's a thin line between love and hate
- Downies everywhere
- Am I mistaken ...
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Friends and Fellow Travelers
- Anya's Garden [natural perfumery]
- aromatisches Blog [perfume, of course, in German]
- Cafleurebon [online magazine devoted to perfume]
- Everything is interesting [great writing, a smorgasbord blog]
- Gubbinal ["Literature, cats, knitting,.."]
- Indie Perfumes [perfume and culture]
- Mossyloomings [great 'fume writing and other stuff]
- Notes from the Ledge ["perfume, fresh water, and other indulgences"]
- OlfactaRama [thought-provoking perfume blog]
- olivier Thereaux - Two Neurons and a Camera [original photography, poetry, musings. Go look]
- Perfume Posse [witty perfume criticism]
- Perfume Shrine [perfume for history lovers]
- Perfumum [artful musings on perfume]
- Phydeaux Speaks [politics and life, Carolina style]
- Punk Rock Perfume Party [pithy 'fume reviews, with an attitude]
- Shakesville (Shakespeare's Sister) [politics, etc.]
- Tea, Sympathy, and Perfume [beautifully eclectic]
- The Bleeding Heart Show [politics]
- wood s lot [eclectic, brainy, Canadian]
8 comments:
WHY, dear Lord-
Why ?
It's not the most respectful use, no :-(
I wonder what got into them...are raw materials that expensive now?
Somehow I don't feel "strengthened and inspired." I also think that "never forget" is an appropriate slogan for very few things in life: it's just another term for revenge.
I'm with Bozo on this one. The Never Forget thing bothers me for the reason Bozo stated.
How much money was spent on this is another thing that gets to me. The billions they spent on this thing, could have gone to the families who had last someone or people who survived but are dealing with lifelong medical issues from inhaling the dust, etc.
Dawn
Sorry, it should read ...
Families who *lost* someone.
And I wanted to add, that the people who did survive and are dealing with lifelong medical issues now from the dust, etc., are having a hard time getting their medical insurance to pay for care and all that money that was spent on that ship --- some of it should have gone to help with medical bills.
Dawn
Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who is baffled and revolted. I know what you mean about the money, Dawn. Even the steel itself is valuable and could have been put to more constructive use. And the rhetoric--geez. That "Never forget" business gives me chills, especially because the "war on terror" is all about forgetting history, and what led up to 9/11.
If I had lost someone at the WTC, I would be sickened to know that the dust of their bones had been incorporated into a tool of war.
Yes, it's sickening and disgusting--the usual pious political symbolic nonsense in place of any actual real-world compassion or intelligent response to what actually happened. It's also the kind of sick hugging-the-agony routine that you see in Christian gift shops: half fatuous mottoes and half torture porn.
Hello, Alvis. Yes, it all kinda runs together doesn't it? "Fatuous mottoes and torture porn" are the twin themes of the age.
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