May
14
2009
Tag Teaming the Tagline
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Reader, can you spare a comment? I need your counsel. If you’ve been checking in on this website more than once a month (not that you’ve had any reason to until now), you may have noticed that part of my website has been as transient as the teenage playthings of Berlusconi. I’m not referring to the Twitter feed in the sidebar, which has admittedly become my recent teenage plaything, but rather to the tagline: the one-liner that identifies the website. I haven’t been able to settle upon a satisfactory phrase. Or rather I have settled upon too many. Or to be even more precise, my devotions fluctuate like those of a child plucking daffodil petals: “I love you, I love you not. I love you, I love you not.”
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Feb
4
2009
The One Man Tent (Part I)
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Last month I claimed that change is coming to Fourth Night. But as Guantanamo and Iraq show us, change doesn’t generally come as quickly as pledged in the ecstasies of campaign passion. The Fourth Night website therefore, while imbued by the spirit of change, must also at the moment plead patience while hanging around its cyber-neck that blue collar term that has been appropriated by white collar, or rather wireless collar, workers: “Under Construction.” So for the next two months, while the new Fourth Night is constructed I shall post in two parts a short story that I wrote around seven years ago, The One Man Tent. Seeing that this month’s posting is not an essay, it’s a kind of change, although considering it’s fiction, it’s more like change you can’t believe in. (Speaking of what you believe in, if anyone has any ideas as to what exactly the Democrat campaign slogan “Change You Can Believe In” or the Republican “Country First” means, please post a comment. I still can’t decide which one of those two is more incomprehensible.)
