Hello to all. I’ve not been posting regularly to theWheel for some time now. I’ve been busy. Well, I’m going to continue to be busy, but I think it’s time to start putting some Pods out there again.
Is it because I’m political, and the season is upon us again? That’s part of it, I suppose. More than that, I’m thinking that I have thoughts worth communicating to those of you who don’t already know all I have to say. If you have me all figured out and I’m a waste of your time – perhaps you’re a lot more intelligent than I, and operate on some plane inconceivable to me – well, I guess this site isn’t for you. On the other hand, if we’re of sufficiently similar compositions that we might profitably interact, this is for you.
Just a quick note to tell you all that theWheel will be turning again with new posts, soon. I’ve had a very full plate for a while now. It’s nearly time.
I’ve been writing and posting at theWheel for going on four years now, which I suppose is long enough to convince me that I believe in something here. But what is it that I believe in? Dan Bilich musing publicly as theOwl? That’s not it. When I started this thing I had a vision of a “Wheel Behind This World” that could serve as a cultural engine, a place for good ideas to be presented by many people and collectively developed into culturally active memes. » Read the rest of this entry «
I will begin this post by stating clearly that I do not know what happened on September 11 2001. I do not have confidence in the official stories. I have no pet theory or theories of my own that I am ready to publish. Perhaps I should say that I suspect that I will eventually be exposed to FACTS that I don’t yet have that will prove crucial to my understanding of 9/11. It is illogical to suppose that the same Bush administration that lied to us about most everything – counting votes in Florida, classifying CO2 as a pollutant, Iraq, WMDs, torture, spying on Americans, politicization of the Justice Department, the list goes on and on – told us nothing but the truth concerning 9/11.
So anyhow, there’s a foofaraw over at Daily Kos tonight over a diary
The election is over, and I am feeling a curious reluctance to write or post about politics anymore. I want to turn the page.
Perhaps what I now see is an opportunity to move forward on the cultural front, creating the world we want to live in. Let the politics follow the culture for a while.
I write Songs and Musical Drama. Furthermore, I have some thoughts I need to share about Nature and Science. How can I best present my work to the world? What would I like people to experience when they visit my work on the web?
I guess the overarching “theme” of this first Pod concerning “The Ultimate Publishing Pod” is the vision of being able to use the entire internet to amplify a published meme all within a unifying aesthetic envelope.
God, the Internet is amazing. Trying to teach myself how better to embed video in WordPress, I finally had enough sense to simply go to YouTube and search for “WordPress Embed Video“.
I found the answer, I think. The video I’ve posted here, however, isn’t the answer, but the question. Someone else had the same problem I had. At :37 he says “I’m not….Stupid”. It is priceless.
