I’m a writer..
Posted on | November 22, 2006 | 3 Comments
I can say that quite truthfully now. I was asked to contribute an article or 2 for an M.E. website, this is the result.
I know, it’s not really a big thing in the grand scheme of things, but I was quite chuffed that not only did they ask me, they’ve used the article and asked if I’d be willing to do more.. Is that a ‘hell yeah’ you hear? I think so.
On another note, this is something Stef pointed out to me the other day. Christmas lights are already up around the towns. They’ve been up for nearly a month now.
Forgive me if I’m wrong.. But isn’t the government trying to get us to be more responsible regarding energy wastage? We have to turn out lights when we’re not in the room, turn down radiators and heaters by just one notch at a time – they want us to conserve as much energy as possible because we’re using more than they can supply..
Yet they put up christmas lights over a month before the christmas period. Surely that should be one of the first wasteful practices to shed? Ok, to celebrate the season, if they must use lights, they could put them up no earlier than Decmber 20th and take ‘em down no later than January 6th but no..They need to fuel the christmas frenzy so that people will shop shop shop right up until the last minute.
It’s the one thing I hate about christmas – for years I was the biggest humbugger going, purely because of the way commercialisation has taken over. I’ve had a couple of good experiences since meeting Stef so I no longer wish to hide myself away at christmas, but I do avoid town as much as possible – easy enough to do with internet shopping.
Sadly though commercialism is not just around at christmas – even if it does seem most prevalent then.
Advertisers are the worst – again, the government claim they’re trying to stop waste of all kinds, new recycling schemes are being rolled out all across the country, they’re even talking about removing the waste disposal fee from the council tax bill and replacing it with a ‘pay as you throw’ plan instead, yet the people who create most of this waste don’t seem to be held accountable.
Surely if advertisers had to pay the same amount in disposal fee’s as they spend on creating this rubbish we’d see less junk mail. It crossed my mind the other day as I saw this remington advert that not only do advertisers pollute our streets and homes with this junk, they pollute our minds and corrupt our young.
I mean – how else can you interpret the tag line “it’s whats on the outside that counts” as anything other than encouragement for shallow thoughtless thinking? That’s the worst kind of pollution going as far as I’m concerned – it may take time and money but we can eventually clean up a physical mess, the mental damage this kind of thinking promotes can be seen every day in the packs of kids wandering the streets secure in the knowledge that as long as they look good they’ll go far in life – never mind actually learning anything useful!
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November 23rd, 2006 @ 3:30 am
Sound like Vicky the Grinch is returning. DAMN LIGHTS.
Oh and nice new digs. I’ll update my links when I get home from Regina.
November 23rd, 2006 @ 9:19 am
A good rant about important topics
On the subject of power – I am an absolute power-saving fanatic, and after preaching for aeons to people who always leave the lights/TV on, I’ve concluded it’s hopeless. Lights and devices which switch themselves off seem to be the only remaining option.
PS: thanks for pointing me to your new corner!
November 30th, 2006 @ 2:09 pm
Congrats on getting published!!!