Last chance to object

[pameladean]

All right, you guys, I've now written three very long entries about my trip to California and figured I should start posting them. I haven't decided if I am going to divide them up into shorter entries, or whether I will use cut tags, or what, but if anybody reading this has a strong opinion, now is the time to voice it.

I might just do what I want to do anyway, but you never know.

In other news, it is a glorious late-summer day replete with meadowhawks, Painted Ladies, cabbage butterflies, wasps, asters, mourning doves, and the first flicker I have seen since forever.

And I found the perfect sentence to remind me of how these times, in the sense of what is going on in this country, feel to me. I suppose I am putting it down here to persuade myself that I'll actually forgot, and in the hope that I won't be looking fondly backwards thinking that we didn't know how really bad it could get.

Charles Lambroschini, writing in Le Figaro (as translated by Leslie Thatcher) says, "Bush has undergone successive sincerities."

Pamela

Comments

Re: Last chance to object

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

my strong opinion isn't how you post them, it's only that you post them, *grin*.

however crappy our summer was (much, much too hot) it's wonderful now, with crisp, clear air and cool breezes.

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

put them in but cut tag for people with little or no time...

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

No cut tags. People with no or little time can skip over them. People who download the page and then read it later offline--like on an airplane--hate cut tags.

B

Publish in full!

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Of course, you could summarize -- something equivalent to "Hamlet doesn't get along well with his stepfather" -- and then make a cut for the full passages.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Either way is fine.

The autumn clematis is blooming here, behind the late roses, woodland anemones, and some phlox that won't quit. I picked my first rose hip, off one of the rugosas and the seeds are drying on the sink near an armfull of sage and thyme. The garden is all gold tinged mossy green, with the barberry and the crab apples making splotches of maroon.

The best thing though is the light. September, when it's not raining, brings skies of unusual blue, and at this time of the day the light slanting through the trees is liquid gold.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Cut-tags are your friends' friend.

The Le figaro quote is perfect.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

What a great tease you are, Pamela! Dropping all these hints and then even *considering* not posting! Harumph!

(In otherwords: Post as you like, but please do post)

[pameladean]

I'm not a tease, I just can't write clearly. There is no question of failing to post the stuff, the only question had to do with the use of cut tags.

I really should have added, too, that the three entries are not the end of the matter, covering only three days, one of which was mere preparation. Okay, maybe that's teasing.

Pamela

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

Post 'em! No cut tags. Hate 'em. Cut tags are rendolent of MTV-style editing on television shows. Bring back lengthy passages! Brevity ain't the soul of anything! Didn't anyone catch on that Shakespeare put that in the mouth of Polonius the windbag?

My, Talk Like a Pirate Day seems to have had a superaggressive effect on me.

moi