15 I appear to have an anonymous benefactor: someone donated 12 months to my paid account, extending it to April of 2006.
I don’t know who did this, nor why, but it was a very nice thing to do. If you’re out there reading this, thank you very much.
We shouldn’t fool ourselves into mistaking the world as we experience it for the world as it really is.
The two are related, but the relationship is complicated, and it’s real work to figure it out.
@Popehat We're never going to change their hearts and minds if we treat this kind of conduct as a bad thing.
Oscar Hokeah's blog post: Debut Novel: CALLING FOR A BLANKET DANCE https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/21549394-debut-novel-calling-for-a-blanket-dance via @goodreads
“the…novelist, who seeks to confer or receive amusement from his labours, may, without presumption, apply to prose fiction a licence, or rather a rule, from the adoption of which so many exquisite combinations of human feeling have resulted in the highest specimens of poetry.”
Jeff Bezos being lionized by rote, thoughtless coverage for going to space privately, decades after we did it first collectively, speaks of the ethos of an age: we've come to venerate what we do alone and sneer at what we do together.
Let's reverse that.
https://the.ink/p/what-we-do-alone-and-what-we-do-together
arian1
Thats cool. I guess I should get a paid account one of these days.
keikaimalu
I suspect Zoot.
rosiebird
it wasn’t me. but that would have been a very clever birthday gift. belated happy, btw.
steelbrassnwood
I didn’t even know you could do that. Very nice. But I doubt it was Zoot; I don’t think LJ’s billing system is set up to accept dead birds.
shunn
The next killer app — figuring out how to automate barter on the net!
Congrats, Bob. (Is that the word one uses with someone who has an anonymous benefactor?) That’s very cool.
admin
Yeah, I don’t really use all the paid options as much as I could. I’d rather spend the time writing and responding to comments than wonking around with my user options.
admin
Well, “suspect” and “Zoot” do go together like peanut butter and jelly, but I can tell you that she doesn’t have a philanthropic bone in her fluffy little body.
admin
Thank you.
admin
Yes, if Zoot were moved to charity I’m almost afraid of what form it would take.
admin
Congrats, Bob. (Is that the word one uses with someone who has an anonymous benefactor?)
Thanks. I have no idea if I’m to be congratulated or pitied, frankly. But it was a very nice thing to do.
couscous1021
It wasn’t me! Your journal is fantastic, but I just have too many hang-ups to do things like that. I read all kinds of meanings into gestures.
Congratulations on your gift-Hopefully you are not doing what I’m doing 🙂
keikaimalu
I was thinking maybe she thought it was a good way to protect her own LiveJournal so she can keep educating the filthy masses. But it probably is someone else. 🙂
admin
Thank you for the compliment, and for the congratulations.
Hopefully you are not doing what I’m doing 🙂
Laurie, you BAD girl! What are you doing?!
couscous1021
Dammit! I fell right into that . I’m always so careful, too.
But, to answer your question: I meant thinking of not-so-noble conditions to this patronage! That’s what I was doing.
Really and truly!!
admin
*laughing*
It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. (Ever wonder how that expression came about? A bunch of good old boys, settin’ around the store: “Hey, Zeke, you know what ‘ud be fun? If we shot us some fish in a barrel!”)