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primetime blogs

I’m starting to find West Wing kind of repetitive and self-important, Ally McBeal’s over, even here in Norway where we’re always a season late, and they’ve stopped showing Cold Feet and Sex and the City. The ethers are filled with reality shows […]

conversations

My post about hiding behind my blog has engendered fascinating conversations, conversations I’d love to continue and will but not just today. Today I have a wedding to attend. Leaf through the trackbacks (especially Steve and Shelley) for interesting posts. [update 13/4: […]

what to do if a friend has a miscarriage

Thinking of my miscarriages I did a usenet search from back when I was active in misc.kids.pregnancy, and I found this wonderful post, written just three weeks after my first miscarriage, where I wrote about how my friends had helped me and […]

not to be silent

Torill has more insight in my own hiding in writing mechanisms than I do myself: With the advantage of knowing Jill, when her posts turn impersonal and businesslike, I know there’s something wrong – which is why I tried to call her […]

dare

I think if you dare to call yourself a writer you must dare to put ALL of yourself into your writing.

Which voices might be mine?

hiding behind a blog

Exhibitionism and mental masturbation? Nonsense. Blogging is about hiding. It’s about partial truths and a voice that is binding as well as freeing. When my partner tells me he’s unsure about our relationship I write about protesters rallying for peace. When I […]

peaceblogs

I prefer peaceblogs to warblogs 🙂

how many versions of the war are there?

When one side has a thousand times more casulties than the other, it’s not a war, writes Sven Egil Omdal. He repeats what Europeans have been hearing since the war began: in the US, the war is reported uncritically. Iraqi civilian victims […]

women, copying, sharing

Today’s meeting about copyright and copying at Bergen Kunsthall (“deledagen”) has been critisised for only having male presenters (in the BB mailing list today, archives are subscribers only). The organisers answer that they asked two women who couldn’t come, and they pull […]