Queens of Twittering may send up to 1000, one hundred forty word, messages a day, and so far there is no direct financial profit in it. This Vanity Fair article by Vanessa Grigoriadis is about the way some people embrace new technology and hire GHOST TWITTERers to keep their fans updated with the minutia of their lives.
I personally have no time to Twitter and am not that interested in the minutia nor do I imagine anyone at all interested in mine. Really impactful personal "sharing" dates in coffee houses are rare to come by as well. Seems to me the best use of Twitter-like reportage is for purposes of MARKETING.
I believe that some people DO NOT KNOW THEY EXIST IF THEY ARE NOT CONSTANT WITH THE REPORTAGE.
Have you experienced meeting someone for coffee and feeling like you may as well come alone since the person across the table is too busy with their cell phone - texting - to pay much attention?
Christine Trzyna
1/28/10
J.D. SALINGER CATCHER IN THE RYE AUTHOR PASSES
Breaking Yahoo news... the author of the book that was taught at Eastern Prep schools and became famous as an inspiration for the murder of John Lennon passes away.
1/19/10
MY THOUGHTS ABOUT CHRISTINE TRZYNA - WRITERLY LIFE - THE BLOG
Recently, I got a couple of comments that advised me that my blog was getting better all the time - funnier - and maybe more interesting. I was also complimented on the high quality of the blog - that reading it is a pleasure.
But I have mixed feelings about writing for approval and the truth is, I'm really not. Though I do hope my writerly blog is of support to other writers, and am a very bookish person who admires many other writers for what they have written, this blog is for me first. I write it as if no one is reading it! I don't see that my goal in writing my blog is to make people like me, approve of me, or my humor or my attitude, though it's nice if they do. (I need support too!) That's why I haven't installed an ego-tickling ticker to count hits. Now Google rates by hits, while Yahoo has apparently dumped me because I don't have an impressive number of links!
This blog is my diary. I know the stories behind certain posts that I would never tell. But when I personally click click click to an old post, I remember. For the reader I would say this is a tease. Like Sally Rand, I'm keeping a lot of parts covered, on purpose. That's my pleasure.
And as far as being funnier, I do have a sense of humor and it's one that is not always appreciated, so when someone gets me? OK! That's an ego stroke akin to a full body massage with exotic oil, OK.
But deeper to the accupressure point, I am just so glad I have this blog as well as WES BRYAN-MY LIFE IN MUSIC to express myself with, because right now the time I have to write, the time I have to even think my own thoughts, or go without interruption, is severely limited. I fantacize about going somewhere - escaping to a place - where I cannot see or speak to another human being for weeks if I choose (OK I'll take Wes' calls!) and WRITE WRITE WRITE!
I also KNOW that the time is coming when I'll be writing a book which will take all my efforts NOT TO CARE WHAT MY READERS THINK OF ME. In fact I will consider it my duty to piss off my readers; when it comes to a full range of human emotions I have them. And I won't want anyone to tell me not to write it, or how to write it, or that what I need to say need not be said. (As a hint, read the holocaust poem below!) It's going to take true fearlessness to get my truth down, so yes, my readers will cry.
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OK thanks D, yes hopefully laugh too!
But I have mixed feelings about writing for approval and the truth is, I'm really not. Though I do hope my writerly blog is of support to other writers, and am a very bookish person who admires many other writers for what they have written, this blog is for me first. I write it as if no one is reading it! I don't see that my goal in writing my blog is to make people like me, approve of me, or my humor or my attitude, though it's nice if they do. (I need support too!) That's why I haven't installed an ego-tickling ticker to count hits. Now Google rates by hits, while Yahoo has apparently dumped me because I don't have an impressive number of links!
This blog is my diary. I know the stories behind certain posts that I would never tell. But when I personally click click click to an old post, I remember. For the reader I would say this is a tease. Like Sally Rand, I'm keeping a lot of parts covered, on purpose. That's my pleasure.
And as far as being funnier, I do have a sense of humor and it's one that is not always appreciated, so when someone gets me? OK! That's an ego stroke akin to a full body massage with exotic oil, OK.
But deeper to the accupressure point, I am just so glad I have this blog as well as WES BRYAN-MY LIFE IN MUSIC to express myself with, because right now the time I have to write, the time I have to even think my own thoughts, or go without interruption, is severely limited. I fantacize about going somewhere - escaping to a place - where I cannot see or speak to another human being for weeks if I choose (OK I'll take Wes' calls!) and WRITE WRITE WRITE!
I also KNOW that the time is coming when I'll be writing a book which will take all my efforts NOT TO CARE WHAT MY READERS THINK OF ME. In fact I will consider it my duty to piss off my readers; when it comes to a full range of human emotions I have them. And I won't want anyone to tell me not to write it, or how to write it, or that what I need to say need not be said. (As a hint, read the holocaust poem below!) It's going to take true fearlessness to get my truth down, so yes, my readers will cry.
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OK thanks D, yes hopefully laugh too!
1/12/10
IF NOT FOR HER SAVING ANNE FRANKS DIARY... WE WOULD NEVER HAVE READ IT! 100 YEAR OLD MIEP GIES PASSES AWAY !
Link now to this Yahoo news story about Miep Gies, who put the papers that were Anne Frank's diary away in her desk... Anne's diary was required reading when I was in the fifth grade. I'm not sure we understood the Holocaust, focusing instead on Anne falling in love with Peter... There were many heroic individuals who risked their own lives to hide other people in Poland, Germany, the occupied countries during the Nazi terror.
1/8/10
CARLOS CASTANEDA quote
“Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior’s indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.” Carlos Castaneda
1/6/10
HOLA MAGAZINE (A SECRET PLEASURE) I'M MOSTLY INTERESTED IN THE ROYAL SITUATION IN MONACO
A few months ago, I began "reading," Hola! Magazine, which is available at Los Angeles Public Library branches with high Spanish-speaking populations.
Truth is I can't read it but I can look at the pictures and glean the content through some word identification.
What is fascinating me about the LATIN MENTALITY OF HOLA, is that aristocrats and royals are featured celebrities just as they were in Europe for hundreds of years. So, if you are interested in what the Spanish Royal family is up to or the titans of industry, this is the magazine for you.
I'm mostly interested in the Royal Situation in Monaco. The Royal Family of Monaco is one of the worlds most publicized dysfunctional families in the world and the whole question about the line of succession because Prince Albert has no legal marriage or legitimate offspring (rumors abound about a California love child...) has been intriguing to me. Maybe it's that Princess Grace-American angle. Maybe the Princess Caroline-Feminist - a Woman Should Be In Charge- angle.
Albert has taken over where his father left off and Caroline's first son, a beautiful young man in his prime, is the heir next. Caroline's husband Ernst seems to have been missing in action from some recent ceremonies and Caroline has a dreadful stoic look on her face.
A recent article about the Royal Situation in Monaco revealed something else about Hola! Magazine. Apparently, they do not airbrush like similar publications in the Northern Hemisphere do, revealing every wrinkle (Caroline very very wrinkly, even shockingly so, after seeing images of her that have been fixed...), varicose vein, and so on. And, couples that feature both the man and the woman in swim-gear with excess fat are not cropped to be more attractive. Maybe it's the Reality TV influence.
Truth is I can't read it but I can look at the pictures and glean the content through some word identification.
What is fascinating me about the LATIN MENTALITY OF HOLA, is that aristocrats and royals are featured celebrities just as they were in Europe for hundreds of years. So, if you are interested in what the Spanish Royal family is up to or the titans of industry, this is the magazine for you.
I'm mostly interested in the Royal Situation in Monaco. The Royal Family of Monaco is one of the worlds most publicized dysfunctional families in the world and the whole question about the line of succession because Prince Albert has no legal marriage or legitimate offspring (rumors abound about a California love child...) has been intriguing to me. Maybe it's that Princess Grace-American angle. Maybe the Princess Caroline-Feminist - a Woman Should Be In Charge- angle.
Albert has taken over where his father left off and Caroline's first son, a beautiful young man in his prime, is the heir next. Caroline's husband Ernst seems to have been missing in action from some recent ceremonies and Caroline has a dreadful stoic look on her face.
A recent article about the Royal Situation in Monaco revealed something else about Hola! Magazine. Apparently, they do not airbrush like similar publications in the Northern Hemisphere do, revealing every wrinkle (Caroline very very wrinkly, even shockingly so, after seeing images of her that have been fixed...), varicose vein, and so on. And, couples that feature both the man and the woman in swim-gear with excess fat are not cropped to be more attractive. Maybe it's the Reality TV influence.
1/2/10
12/20/09
CHRISTOPHER RICKS Quote
"If there was one thing worse than being married to a ruthless unsuccessful poet, it was being married to a ruthless successful poet." - Christopher Ricks
12/18/09
WHAT I WANT IN MY SOCK (NOT MY STOCKING! I DON'T WEAR THEM!)
WHAT IS MY HEART'S DESIRE?
My Favorite (Cheap) Chocolate: Hershey's Dark and Hersheys Chocolate with Almonds. (However I'm open to Chocolate Swiss.)
My Favorite Gum: I've been trying all the new chewing gums in their newly designed artistic packages but ORBIT brand in WATERMELON or CITRUS is the best! (It turns out 20 minutes of chewing after each meal really is good for your teeth and digestion!)
My Favorite Nut Candy: Pastel Jordon Almonds.
My Favorite Fruit: Oranges. These are perfect!
A GOLD COIN - much better than a half penny though a half penny will do.
MY LONG LOST RING RETURNED MYSTERIOUSLY (Perhaps an apportation!)
A LOVE LETTER (It must be sincere!)
All the money that is owed to me by various scoundrels (including intellectual property thieves) so I can pay off all my own debts.
A year's supply of Indian incense.
My Favorite (Cheap) Chocolate: Hershey's Dark and Hersheys Chocolate with Almonds. (However I'm open to Chocolate Swiss.)
My Favorite Gum: I've been trying all the new chewing gums in their newly designed artistic packages but ORBIT brand in WATERMELON or CITRUS is the best! (It turns out 20 minutes of chewing after each meal really is good for your teeth and digestion!)
My Favorite Nut Candy: Pastel Jordon Almonds.
My Favorite Fruit: Oranges. These are perfect!
A GOLD COIN - much better than a half penny though a half penny will do.
MY LONG LOST RING RETURNED MYSTERIOUSLY (Perhaps an apportation!)
A LOVE LETTER (It must be sincere!)
All the money that is owed to me by various scoundrels (including intellectual property thieves) so I can pay off all my own debts.
A year's supply of Indian incense.
12/13/09
ANDY WARHOL From I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR
In Vogue magazine March 1970
KENT: Do your films ever have scripts and plots?
WARHOL (smiling) Sometimes. Half a page, a paragraph. But, mainly, the stars improvise their own dialogue. Somehow, we attract people who can turn themselves on in front of the camera. In a sense, they're really superstars. It's much harder, you know, to be your own script than to memorize someone else's. Anyhow, scripts bore me. It's much more exciting not to know what's going to happen...
I don't think plot is important. If you see a movie, say, of two people talking, you can watch it over and over again without being bored. You get involved --- you miss things ---you come back to it---you see new things. But you can't see the same movie 0ver and over again if it has a plot because you already know the ending.
KENT: But isn't improvisational movie making a matter of luck, depending upon the resources of the people who are doing the improvising?
WARHOL: (Fervidly, as if his own voice had revealed a mystery) : Everyone is rich. Everyone and everything is interesting. Years ago, people used to sit looking out of their windows at the street. Or on a park bench. They would stay for hours without being bored although nothing much was going on. This is my favorite theme in movie making ---just watching something happening for two hours or so.
Interview with Letitia Kent
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
Thirty Seven Conversations with the Pop
MasterEdited by Kenneth Goldsmith (individual writer-interviews are named in these excerpts.)
KENT: Do your films ever have scripts and plots?
WARHOL (smiling) Sometimes. Half a page, a paragraph. But, mainly, the stars improvise their own dialogue. Somehow, we attract people who can turn themselves on in front of the camera. In a sense, they're really superstars. It's much harder, you know, to be your own script than to memorize someone else's. Anyhow, scripts bore me. It's much more exciting not to know what's going to happen...
I don't think plot is important. If you see a movie, say, of two people talking, you can watch it over and over again without being bored. You get involved --- you miss things ---you come back to it---you see new things. But you can't see the same movie 0ver and over again if it has a plot because you already know the ending.
KENT: But isn't improvisational movie making a matter of luck, depending upon the resources of the people who are doing the improvising?
WARHOL: (Fervidly, as if his own voice had revealed a mystery) : Everyone is rich. Everyone and everything is interesting. Years ago, people used to sit looking out of their windows at the street. Or on a park bench. They would stay for hours without being bored although nothing much was going on. This is my favorite theme in movie making ---just watching something happening for two hours or so.
Interview with Letitia Kent
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
Thirty Seven Conversations with the Pop
MasterEdited by Kenneth Goldsmith (individual writer-interviews are named in these excerpts.)
12/9/09
SAMUEL GOLDWYN on FREE SPEECH
"When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you."
From "The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said" by Ross and Kathryn Petras published by Doubleday
From "The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said" by Ross and Kathryn Petras published by Doubleday
12/1/09
CHRISTINE TRZYNA - WRITERLY LIFE RIGHTS INFORMATION
Christine Trzyna BlogSpot / Christine Trzyna
Every once in a while I'll be posting a notice like this one that reminds readers that the content of this blog is Copyright Christine Trzyna with all rights reserved including Internet and International Rights.
THANKS!
Every once in a while I'll be posting a notice like this one that reminds readers that the content of this blog is Copyright Christine Trzyna with all rights reserved including Internet and International Rights.
THANKS!
11/28/09
Excerpt from THE AGE OF THE UNTHINKABLE by JOSHUA COOPER RAMO
page 134 of mini chapter "Where Can I Fail?"
Buddhist masters like to say that if you're trying to reach enlightenment, you must develop, in this order, "right view, right intention, and right action." If you're not seeing the world properly, you have no hope of this sort of breakthrough. The question I want to explore now is" what is the right view when it comes to life in a revolutionary age? When the defining trait of life in those sandpile developments that, by definition, are new in our experience, how should we look at the world? Do we have anything to learn from people who are particularly successful in places where fast change and surprise are daily facts of life? These are vitally important questions if you;re trying to train yourself to make sense of a world order that looks increasingly out of control...
Page 185
"Many of our problems today aren't the result of too little information. Instead, they come from the challenge of sorting through a huge (and growing) amount of data, all constantly changing, and much of it irrelevant or misleading....
C 2009 Joshua Cooper Ramo, the author. Little Brown and Company is the publisher
Buddhist masters like to say that if you're trying to reach enlightenment, you must develop, in this order, "right view, right intention, and right action." If you're not seeing the world properly, you have no hope of this sort of breakthrough. The question I want to explore now is" what is the right view when it comes to life in a revolutionary age? When the defining trait of life in those sandpile developments that, by definition, are new in our experience, how should we look at the world? Do we have anything to learn from people who are particularly successful in places where fast change and surprise are daily facts of life? These are vitally important questions if you;re trying to train yourself to make sense of a world order that looks increasingly out of control...
Page 185
"Many of our problems today aren't the result of too little information. Instead, they come from the challenge of sorting through a huge (and growing) amount of data, all constantly changing, and much of it irrelevant or misleading....
C 2009 Joshua Cooper Ramo, the author. Little Brown and Company is the publisher
11/23/09
CHRISTINE TRZYNA REVIEWS THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS ! "I didn't feel entertained. I felt HUMILIATED for Womankind."
I and a group of friends, many African American, and ranging in age from early twenties to sixties, watched the AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS last night.
My prime curiosity was Lady Gaga, who I expected to be over the top. She was on the edge of performance art and owns a voice with a range and power that surpasses Madonna, who has no doubt been an inspiration and, I hear, is a follower.
I also pride myself, whatever my musical tastes at the moment, to have a good idea of what's happening in pop culture music now, and fully expected the Micheal Jackson legacy to be continually enhanced, which it was.
I find it interesting that so many women singers are solo acts these days. My generation of women had a hard time infiltrating the music business, coming after the girl groups of the 1950's and the soulful strummers of the 1960's, and pretty much regulated to being the groupie- sidekicks of punk rockers and hair bands of the 70's and 80's. But exactly how it is that rauch got to be mainstream, I'm not sure.
Let's not forget that Micheal Jackson, now forgotten as highly inappropriate with children, and Madonna, now raising her children as Kaballists, started the crouch rub as a dance move craze years ago. As a matter of fact, at a dinner some of my friends attended recently there were kids running around dancing and doing the crouch rub. Five year olds. Which is where the dance probably originated.
Last nights show disappointed us all. The main reason was that the special effects and displays, the smoke, the fire, the costuming, the chronic sadio-masochistic posturing, imagery, and props, made us feel like we had taken a trip into something far further south than Dr. Suess' 9th floor dungeon. We are uncomfortable with the sickness, both spiritual and psychological, that came with it. No doubt some of the entertainers had amazing voices, but overall it was dark, very dark, and we wondered exactly why the competition had been about special effects and outrageousness. Adam Lambert, the American Idol star who is openly gay, featured a bare-chested-but-for-the-straps dancer who he pushed around. Pee Yew Adam!
Even Carrie Underwood, a country star, went prancing around with a bevy of demonic ladies in waiting! And this is a five time winner? Is this how desperate you are Carrie?
What the hell happened to country ?
Does anyone really want to listen to lyrics that are poison to the mind and heart over and over again? A lot of the words - sometimes entire sentences - to the lyrics were bleeped.
As a woman who has long been a feminist, and who is not shy about erotica in the right place, or lyrics that challenge us, I never the less almost felt a shame that what top women singers do now is disguise their voices with all this calamity around them. I'd rather they leave the stripping to strippers in clubs one chooses as a destination and the pornography to the porn stars and the private bedrooms.
I didn't feel entertained. I felt humiliated for womankind.
C Christine Trzyna 2009 All rights reserved including International and Internet Rights. Contact author for permissions.
My prime curiosity was Lady Gaga, who I expected to be over the top. She was on the edge of performance art and owns a voice with a range and power that surpasses Madonna, who has no doubt been an inspiration and, I hear, is a follower.
I also pride myself, whatever my musical tastes at the moment, to have a good idea of what's happening in pop culture music now, and fully expected the Micheal Jackson legacy to be continually enhanced, which it was.
I find it interesting that so many women singers are solo acts these days. My generation of women had a hard time infiltrating the music business, coming after the girl groups of the 1950's and the soulful strummers of the 1960's, and pretty much regulated to being the groupie- sidekicks of punk rockers and hair bands of the 70's and 80's. But exactly how it is that rauch got to be mainstream, I'm not sure.
Let's not forget that Micheal Jackson, now forgotten as highly inappropriate with children, and Madonna, now raising her children as Kaballists, started the crouch rub as a dance move craze years ago. As a matter of fact, at a dinner some of my friends attended recently there were kids running around dancing and doing the crouch rub. Five year olds. Which is where the dance probably originated.
Last nights show disappointed us all. The main reason was that the special effects and displays, the smoke, the fire, the costuming, the chronic sadio-masochistic posturing, imagery, and props, made us feel like we had taken a trip into something far further south than Dr. Suess' 9th floor dungeon. We are uncomfortable with the sickness, both spiritual and psychological, that came with it. No doubt some of the entertainers had amazing voices, but overall it was dark, very dark, and we wondered exactly why the competition had been about special effects and outrageousness. Adam Lambert, the American Idol star who is openly gay, featured a bare-chested-but-for-the-straps dancer who he pushed around. Pee Yew Adam!
Even Carrie Underwood, a country star, went prancing around with a bevy of demonic ladies in waiting! And this is a five time winner? Is this how desperate you are Carrie?
What the hell happened to country ?
Does anyone really want to listen to lyrics that are poison to the mind and heart over and over again? A lot of the words - sometimes entire sentences - to the lyrics were bleeped.
As a woman who has long been a feminist, and who is not shy about erotica in the right place, or lyrics that challenge us, I never the less almost felt a shame that what top women singers do now is disguise their voices with all this calamity around them. I'd rather they leave the stripping to strippers in clubs one chooses as a destination and the pornography to the porn stars and the private bedrooms.
I didn't feel entertained. I felt humiliated for womankind.
C Christine Trzyna 2009 All rights reserved including International and Internet Rights. Contact author for permissions.
11/17/09
STOP COMPLAINING START BOASTING!
Have your friends ever complained that you complain too much? Much bemused with last nights conversation with a 180. Try this! Use every occasion to gloat, brag, air positive thoughts about yourself... just how long can your friends stand it ? There is something in our society - most- that deplores the person who dares have too much self confidence and self esteem. Maybe we're all afraid to tempt bad luck or seeming competitive!
I will soon be submitting my first Vanity Fair inspired Proustean questionairre since I began this blog...
I will soon be submitting my first Vanity Fair inspired Proustean questionairre since I began this blog...
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