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Name: Scrr
Country: Netherlands
Birthday: 6/7/1975
Expertise: Artwork on this site that is made by myself, is protected under international copyright laws.
My work is to be found on my website: www.remart.nl
For info about acquiring or usage, don't hesitate to email me!...
Occupation: Artist
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Member Since:
9/14/2002
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| OUR SWEET LITTLE MADDY... (But also Rhys and Diana)... ((A bit rambling, but there you go))
We've collectively prayed and cried for Madeline, so that gives us the rights to having a piece of her. We bought our right for furhter participation with it. And now that the parents might have done it, we want this to be either proven or disproven in public.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen t/columnists/guest_contributors/article2 402693.ece
Those who know me would not be surprised to see I agree with this article...
Years ago, when all those "silent marches after unnecessary violence" started, I already posed the idea that a lot of people treat these as a cozy day out. Mom makes the samwiches, children in the back of the car, dad puts on a singalong CD - Hop to the march, perhaps afterwards ice cream!...
This weekend we saw a movie where this phenomenon was satirized. In "Nothing Sacred" a movie from 1937, a young girl, claiming to be dying from radiation poisoning through her work in a factory, is being taken under the wing of a newspaperman, and soon the whole of New York is involved with the "terrible plight of this brave young girl". The girl, Hazel, is spotted out during a boxing match and gets a 10 seconds of silence aubade, schoolchildren are thronged up in her bedroom to sing for her, a Day of Mourning is already in the planning... Then the newspaper man finds out she's lying, and that he's in big, big trouble.
Nothing has changed since then, I guess. Wasn't the whole (American) nation in tears when the son of Charles Lindbergh (famous pilot) was kidnapped? And when Patty Hearst disappeared? And what the audience response when she eventually turned up, having 'kidnapped' herself, in need of money?...
Wouldn't it be sad to be a young couple now, having your child disappeared, and realize that there's no tears left for you, since they've all gone to Our Maddy?...
Bah, bah, piffle and bile! | | |
| IN WHICH THE USA TURNS ITS TOTALITARIAN CHEEK AGAIN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5297822.stm?ls
...And though this might seem like another insignificant "small offer for a greater good", you only have to have a small knowledge of world history, that these are only the tiny visible tips of a hidden yet very large and very scary iceberg.
...But I suppose saying things like that makes me un-Murkin. | | |
| BLOGBLING
...Probably the fancy stuff people dress their Xanga up with. I don't
know where that came from, but thought I'd might aswell coin the
phrase...
Cannot help but being a tad incommunicado - no internet at home, and at
work there's just too much stuff going on at the same time to be able
to have a decent sit-down to go through the blogs and such. A snippet
here and there is all I seem to be able to muster.
Luckily I have my secretary to keep me informed about the Greater World.
Can't get fully over the fact that it's almost a *year* since I came to
Belfast the first time. So much has happened since then, and yet so
little: is it a sign of adulthood (nearly wrote adultery there) that
big changes and happenings in life are pretty much taken in stride?
When I was a kid, single occurences could have an almost mythical
impact, these days it's more (if I may be very blunt and
oversimplifying): "Well, that was the funeral, let's get back to work
then" (as a matter of fact - concerning my dad there's the occasional
moment of grief - though it's more through seeing the effect on my
family, since -let's be honest- 'missing someone' happens mainly
through practical things: my mom misses my dad when she wants to go for
walk, and is not used to going alone). Anyway, I'm trailing off.
So, yes, lotsa things happened the past year. Some bad, some good... But forwards it is!...
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| FLAGMOBBING
(It's like Flashmobbing, but then with flags. See how clever I am? Aha! Aha!)
With the Flag-system coming in Xanga, I predict the following game.
Flagmobbing.
People, who might be on a non-Xanga mailinglist or whatnot, agree to go a randomly picked blog, and flag it for a predetermined reason. Xanga-page gets closed, and the mobbers giggle in their larkishness...
Remember, you read it here first; on the hush-hush, on the QT, and very, very confidential!... | | |
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