Blogbits: Quake Weather, Fundraising, Gang War & Bliss
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To paraphrase Laurie Anderson, writing about blogging is like dancing about architecture. As soon as you try to pin down one post as exemplifying the medium, a wild new hybrid pops up somewhere else like a radiation-mutated dandelion. Here's an array of specimens from this morning's sample bag:
January 17th, 13 Years Later: Will Campbell looks back, and the Nerd feels an earthquake coming on.
Me? On the morning of Jan. 17, 1994, I was at home in Sherman Oaks, shoveling out one of the few houses on our block not completely thrashed by the Northridge epicenter 5 miles away. After scraping a puree of smushed food and shattered china off the kitchen floor, I jumped in my car and headed off to work covering the mess in Simi Valley for the Times.
Only after I got up there (via surface streets, the 118 was closed) did I realize my tank was almost dry. I wound up cadging a few gallons of gas off of U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly, who siphoned them straight out of his 1940s vintage fire truck and into a can with his own mouth. True story.
L.A. Gang Wars, 2007:
The New York Times scopes out L.A.'s gang problems, and publishes a small web portfolio of photos focused on the death of Cheryl Green, the 8th-grader slain last month in a race-tinged shooting in Harbor Gateway.
The View from City Hall: blogdowntown reminds us how gorgeous the view from City Hall can be - provided you can make it up to the 27th-floor observation deck on a wickedly-cold January night.
A Fighter Fights:
If you've never known someone with cancer, if you've never thought about the day-in, day-out struggle of managing your illness along with the difficulties of your already-challenging daily life, then please add Cathy Seipp's blog to your feed reader. Blogging about it is possibly the bravest of the many brave things cancer is forcing Cathy to do.
