Nah, not really. I don't even have a Facebook page. Partly because I can barely keep up regular blog posting - obviously. How could I add the job of Facebook updating? And don't get me started on watching my co-workers spend all day at work frolicking in the absurd circus that FB can be. "Farmville"? I don't need to play "Farmville" -- I live in Iowa, with goats and geese on one side of our housing division, corn and bean fields on the other. Not to mention I don't need my employer to know that I have a blog where I complain about my job.
I don't have much that I care about posting on a Facebook page, if i had one. But I stumbled on this article about a Facebook status update that has gone viral for posting as one's FB status.
It started with a Facebook status update. Upset at the media's coverage of Charlie Sheen, someone took up for American soldiers dying in Afghanistan.
"Charlie Sheen is all over the news because he's a celebrity drug addict," it said, "while Andrew Wilfahrt 31, Brian Tabada 21, Rudolph Hizon 22, Chauncy Mays 25, are soldiers who gave their lives this week with no media mention. Please honor them by posting this as your status for a little while."
I hadn't found time for a blog post this week, even though the rest of the blogosphere is engaging in a "Charlie Sheen blog carnival". Charlie Sheen will burn out before I ever have time to write about him, not that he's even worthy of mentioning. This suggestion was worthy of my making time for a quick post before I go to bed. Consider this my "Facebook status update". Hope this suggestion is worthy of a status update on your Facebook page, too, if you have one.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/index.html
4 comments:
Good on you. I am sick to death of losers like Charlie Sheen and all the time they take up in a news cast. Seriously.
THANK YOU! What a great idea! It will be a red letter day when Sheen runs out of ideas to monopolize the news media's shallow, fickle attention.
...the rest of the blogosphere is engaging in a "Charlie Sheen blog carnival"...
Well, not everyone. Heh. But your point is well-taken, Red.
HELLO RED HAMSTER! I love the idea, and will do (I actually do have an FB page - don't worry, I don't update it either). But to answer your question, at least one of them, yes, Will Rogers State Park does still have deer and horses!! When I lived in CA, I used to hike up there at least once a week, and we often marveled at the deer. The horses disappaered for a while - around 2002 or so, maybe, and for a few years. First they told everyone boarding there they had to find a new place (many of the park rangers, one of whom I knew, were less than sympathetic to the people pulling up in BMW SUVs, complaining of the costs this would add to have to board their horse(s) elsewhere - think we're a bit beyone even 'first world problems' there), then a couple horses were there, one of which was a relative of one of Roger's favorite horses. Then they disappeared and there was nothing (but deer), up until I left in 2007. A friend has told me the horses are back, though - they began to allow boarding again in the last year or two. And his house got a nice re-furb around 2005 or 2006. And otherwise, likely still looks the same, though some of the hiking trails occassionally get moved. So one memory is safe!! More later -
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