tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post4547037388671082131..comments2024-03-21T22:36:54.451-04:00Comments on HISTORIES OF THINGS TO COME: Back to BlackLC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-60529286418175970362011-07-24T17:08:37.140-04:002011-07-24T17:08:37.140-04:00@Laroquod, I'm terribly sorry that the feed is...@Laroquod, I'm terribly sorry that the feed is off-putting. Blogger doesn't really support us against scraping at all, so it seemed the only recourse was cutting the feed, although I was under the impression that it included a few lines, not just the title. I would not want you to stop reading! I'll look into a better solution and in the meantime will tweak my titles.<br /><br />On another note, the attempt to integrate all google services with Google Plus is apparently affecting blogger. I've been getting complaints from readers who can't make comments unless they have a blogger/google account? I noticed that comments are only coming in from other bloggers...LC Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-49476616879018541382011-07-24T17:05:45.279-04:002011-07-24T17:05:45.279-04:00@Dia, you said it a thousand times better than I c...@Dia, you said it a thousand times better than I could have, thank you for your comment. Referring to the recession and professional conditions, one of my friends said something great last week to me that puts much of this in a nutshell, along these lines: "We may never reach the promised land, but striving to get there is still respectable."LC Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-34379270589842902832011-07-24T14:28:32.864-04:002011-07-24T14:28:32.864-04:00I was so excited when this video first came out......I was so excited when this video first came out... I ran out and bought the CD and thought, wow, here's a woman with a voice that can revolutionize the blues/R&B genre. I didn't see her as a doomed performer, just an old soul who wanted to get a few more licks in before the apocalypse.<br /><br />"Love affair with death" ? Possibly. But I think the members of Club 27 weren't flirting with death as much as life; darkly brilliant tricksters passing through with so much promise... but it's a promise they can't fulfill beyond a certain point. So, it's tragic; but almost in some eerily predetermined way... even when the cause of death is murder, as it was in Brian Jones' case.<br /><br />But I wouldn't limit the loss to merely one generation... I think we're all - that is, those of us with any semblance of soul - dismayed, heart-broken and confounded. <br /><br />But then, we always are.Dia Sobin (Araqinta)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03398194511342193439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-76817988559428525932011-07-24T12:39:51.825-04:002011-07-24T12:39:51.825-04:00First of all, RIP Amy Winehouse. I didn't real...First of all, RIP Amy Winehouse. I didn't really know her music, but it seems such a sad waste.<br /><br />But the reason I am commenting is that I never would have clicked through here, I just ended up here because your RSS feed is now crippled to titles only and as a result it's very hard for me to connect with the posts I'm actually interested in that you write anymore, you have taken away my method of deciding whether to click through. Were the scrapers really hurting you that much that it's worth asking your readers to click in the dark?<br /><br />At least if you are going to have a headlines only feed, I suggest you make the headlines much less cryptic? Just a suggestion.Laroquodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17025800770736538936noreply@blogger.com