Other Things

I have the attention span of a 5 year old. This is a fact that I was having trouble coming to terms with until I realized that I also have a circular attention span. Basically this boils down to: 1. I have been neglecting the Blog and 2. I am making a blog.

Well, even as I say I have been neglecting Darksong, I also have been posting more, if less in depth, entries. So thats a step in the right direction. The other mater is a tad more complex. After I started this Blog back in August, I threw together another blog called Elemental Shadows. That started as a place for me to actually journal instead of comment and rant but I deleted all the old entries to make room for an online Book of Shadows. That was one project. The other project that I embarked upon was the creation of my own Anime Blog. Anime blogs currently are places for people to review episodes of series that haven't been released in the US yet and also to post images of those series. These blogs are hard to access unless you are familiar with terminology and Anime jargon. So the goal was to create an easley accessible blog that had reviews of series, both current and classic, and helpfull breakdowns of series genres.

Thus was born, LAB Notes, or Lyrinor Anime Blog: Notes. The Blog is not quite ready for launch but it will be soon. Nevertheless, I have decided to preemptively post the link on this page (Its over there on the right) and I hope that those of you who are interested in Anime will take a look and recommend it to your friends. Nothing helps a blog along like comments in its early stages.

At any rate, wish me luck.

Muah!
Lyrinoir

Transitions

Well so much for posting with any regularity.

I'm back to school after spring break and I find myself thinking about relationships. I blame the season personaly. For some reason there is a biological triger when it comes to spring. A triger that screams romance. It's slightly annoying.

In lieu of acctual content, I'm going to post a poem from a collection I just aquired.

Thanksgiving

The tenderness of love is extraordinary
in that in silent ardour in embraces this one
& this one's body, her body, she, in one
her smile, her way of moving, speech, her thought
in flesh, &in her flesh herself, so holds
the other, other in her smile, her way of moving, speech, her thought
no other longer but her own true self
in love & loved at one embraced
& known.

Stefan Brecht

Thats it.

Muah!
Lyrinoir

Campus Crusade for ???

My college campus is embroiled in a huge fight between the Campus Crusade for Christ and the forces of... well... everyone else.

Some background is in order. Over the last two weeks, the Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) has been running an ad campaign to promote their new website EveryStudent.com. The Ads are red signs with the URL of the website and nothing else. Not even the CCC's logo. In addition, they have written out hundreds of URLs in sidewalk chalk all over campus. Under the impression that the website might actually be for Every Student, I visited it and almost immediately found myself marginalized and insulted. To clarify, the CCC had been advertising for the whole year but this is the first time they have not put clearly labeled the signs as Christian. After some thinking, I decided to throw together a petition to have the signs removed for being false advertisement and for the insults of the website itself. The protest is going well from my end. I chose to not attack the CCC and instead attacked their ad style.

However, as of last night, an unknown organization of students launched a counter campaign where they wrote scathing comments by all the sidewalk signage. The most common is the tag line "Is not for every student." but there are others that border on really offensive. One in particular stood out: "Bigot.com." The part that my friends are having trouble with, is that I am about to launch another protest against the protesters.

The thing is, I have a serous issue with intolerance of ANY kind. Even if you are intolerant of those who are intolerant, thats still a problem. The protest I had written was critical of the sketchy nature of the Ads, not the organization in and of itself. I personally don't have a problem with the CCC. I have a problem with their misleading ads. Admittedly, I'm a little annoyed by the content of the website but people are entitled to their opinion.

It helps that I know that I'm right and their wrong, but personal assertion has always been a skill of mine.

I guess the thing that really bothers me about the whole thing is that both sides are taking the sneaky approach. The CCC signs don't have logos. The counter adds don't have any organization taking responsibility. If the two sides could sit down together in a room and be forced to talk it out, I think things would be a lot better but that's not going to happen because the CCC can't take criticism and the others are making themselves known.

At any rate, I can't wait to see how this all turns out.

My college campus is embroiled in a huge fight between the Campus Crusade for Christ and the forces of... well... everyone else.

Some background is in order. Over the last two weeks, the Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) has been running an ad campaign to promote their new website EveryStudent.com. The Ads are red signs with the URL of the website and nothing else. Not even the CCC's logo. In addition, they have written out hundreds of URLs in sidewalk chalk all over campus. Under the impression that the website might actually be for Every Student, I visited it and almost immediately found myself marginalized and insulted. To clarify, the CCC had been advertising for the whole year but this is the first time they have not put clearly labeled the signs as Christian. After some thinking, I decided to throw together a petition to have the signs removed for being false advertisement and for the insults of the website itself. The protest is going well from my end. I chose to not attack the CCC and instead attacked their ad style.

However, as of last night, an unknown organization of students launched a counter campaign where they wrote scathing comments by all the sidewalk signage. The most common is the tag line "Is not for every student." but there are others that border on really offensive. One in particular stood out: "Bigot.com." The part that my friends are having trouble with, is that I am about to launch another protest against the protesters.

The thing is, I have a serous issue with intolerance of ANY kind. Even if you are intolerant of those who are intolerant, thats still a problem. The protest I had written was critical of the sketchy nature of the Ads, not the organization in and of itself. I personally don't have a problem with the CCC. I have a problem with their misleading ads. Admittedly, I'm a little annoyed by the content of the website but people are entitled to their opinion.

It helps that I know that I'm right and their wrong, but personal assertion has always been a skill of mine.

I guess the thing that really bothers me about the whole thing is that both sides are taking the sneaky approach. The CCC signs don't have logos. The counter adds don't have any organization taking responsibility. If the two sides could sit down together in a room and be forced to talk it out, I think things would be a lot better but that's not going to happen because the CCC can't take criticism and the others are making themselves known.

At any rate, I can't wait to see how this all turns out.

Muah!

Lyrinoir