About Flesh is Grass
Who are you?
A lone sheep on a train track with its back to a bend. Proudly, Norm’s Profile 256. Total Politics says:
“This one is a very mixed bag but as the pseudonymous blogger themselves admits: “I don’t have a project”.
Nicely written, each article is almost a microcosm repository of related links, allowing you to go off on your own researches and tangents.
The wide catchment area of interests that this blogger has means you never know what you’ll get next.”
Why are you pseudonymous?
At the current time I would rather my pontifications didn’t interfere with my (for some reason unrelated) personal and professional life. Because I’m only really hiding from Google, it’s practically impossible that this pseudonymity will withstand anybody who wants to discover me.
Why blog then, moron?
In the beginning it was to think better. Then it began to be to write better. Then I started wanting to record things. Then to protest about the things I recorded. Then to balance the volumes of protest with something else.
Well why publish?
Exposure sharpens you up.
Why do you mix politics with what you had for dinner that night? Why do you spoil everything with escribitionist asides and confessions?
I don’t have a project. I will completely understand if political readers prefer to pass over the stuff about dinners and the vagaries of London transport and systems-oriented readers are repelled by the blow-by-blow accounts of my weekends, Matt’s sagacity, and so on. It’s fine. I’m not a service, after all. Of course, though, I’d be delighted if you read my blog – and I hope you will.
Are you a ‘green blogger’?
Not sure how I managed to get myself voted a top green blogger on two rankings in 2008 – I didn’t enter or campaign. But I feel I belong in the category if not at the current high ranking. All aspects of this blog are, I hope, compatible with environmentalism, a priority of mine. Although I find environmental science difficult to pronounce on, pundits predict we are close to a major crisis with waste, carbon and energy. This blog is more concerned with individual measures to address these things than government measures, although this blogger is increasingly interested in the latter. So here you will read about holidaying locally, avoiding animal consumption and buying well. There is a lot on animal rights too. My green politics stem from animal and human rights concerns.
Why have you censored my comment?
Because I honestly thought:
- it was an assertion against a person, group or institution which was both inflammatory and unsubstantiated
- it was hateful
- that’s it actually. Free the speech!
If I censor I say where, why, and my version of what, so at least you get to tell me I’m an arse and everybody knows what you’re referring to.
Can I trust you as a reliable source?
This is a blog – the peer review comes after publishing, not before. I’ve been known to miss a trick, certainly. I do my very best though to be accurate, as well as transparent about gaps, sources, uncertainties and updates.
If I’m not immediately flooded with readers, I may tweak for several hours after publishing without being explicit about updates. After that I might tweak for typos, formatting and style – but I flag any substantive editing transparently.
Are you cute?
Youth-imitating brunette, myopic, blogger’s body.
I want to give you a piece of my mind.
How exciting! fleshisgrass@gmail.com
Are you a ‘green blogger’?
Not sure how I managed to get myself voted a top green blogger on two rankings in 2008 – I didn’t enter or campaign. But I feel I belong in the category if not at the current high ranking. All aspects of this blog are, I hope and believe, unambiguously compatible with environmentalism, a priority of mine. Although I find environmental science difficult to pronounce on, pundits predict we are close to a major crisis with waste, carbon and energy. This blog is more concerned with individual measures to address these things than government measures, although this blogger is increasingly interested in the latter.
Imaginatively put – keep writing, and keep thinking. As Hitler had put it:
“First, those who believe everything they read; Second, those who no longer believe anything; Third, those who critically examine what they read and form their judgments accordingly”
The “Third” types are the best! And too darn few of them around!
Thank you.
Did Hitler really say that?
An unusual way to invoke Godwin’s Law, that’s for damned sure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin’s_law)
Ah. isee, isaid. Well spotted.
Thanks for the link, reciprocated.
Sorry, couldn’t find any contact details:
Hi,
I’ve added your blog to GreenFeed at http://www.greenfeed.org.uk/feeds/
GreenFeed checks blog RSS feeds every 30 minutes and acts a central site to read dozens of notable Green blogs (I also send headlines to Twitter).
If I haven’t yet uploaded a picture of you, or you don’t like the one I have, can you send me a new one?
Also, please consider linking to GreenFeed from your blog.
I hope you find it useful.
Cheers,
Gordon Hodgson
Green Party England Scotland and Wales
Hello!
I am just writing because I thought you might like to look at this funny video that has been produced for Earth Day by Sky. It’s called “Frogmen go Frogmobbing” and aims to draw attention to rising sea levels. Just go to: http://www.earthdaycounts.co.uk and click on the right hand button. If you like this then I could also give you some FTP details to download it yourself.
Happy to chat more about this more if you are interested?
Cheers,
Natasha
Airing today is an interview with David Friedman of the Anti-Defamation League on the rise of cyber-based antisemitism and its role in the wake of the financial crisis. David Friedman is the second guest on “Faith Complex,” a Georgetown University production in conjunction with the Washington Post’s “On Faith” section. “Faith Complex” is a dialogue about the entanglement of religion and politics hosted by Professor Jacques Berlinerblau of the Program for Jewish Civilization and produced by Professor Tom Banchoff of Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.
The video is available here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/05/27/VI2009052701379.html
Upcoming guests will include proponent of secular Islam Abdullahi An-Naim and Father Thomas Reese discussing the Obama administration and the Catholic community.
We feel that this week’s episode, as well as the series as a whole, is relevant to your blog, and we would greatly appreciate your sharing of this video with your members and community via posting it on your website. We look forward to hearing feedback from you as well on the content of the show.
Please share this clip with those you feel would be interested, and feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or recommendations!
Many thanks,
Jonathan Cohn
Co-Producer/Account Executive, Faith Complex
Why is this blog on GreenFeed? you arent a member of the Green party, have no common principles with us, and you are some weirdo C.Hitchens-loving warfreak. so fuck off.
Yes, I’m a member of the Green Party. And you need to stop talking about “us” as if the Greens were the Socialist Worker Party.
“Hitchens loving warfreak” – where?
P.S. Is that you, Caroline Lucas?
Also Denim Justice – a member of the Green Party added flesh without prompting so what is your fucking problem?
That’s true. I never asked.
Hello!
215 events are taking place in the UK on Monday as part of 1500+ worldwide to send a massive wake-up call to world leaders meeting in New York next week to try to salvage flagging climate talks.
If you want to know more about Global details or about some great examples of events around the world please get in touch with me.
See full map of events: http://www.avaaz.org/en/tcktcktck_map/
Best wishes,
Emmanuelle
Holy crap! Another vegan in Barkingside! I honestly thought I was all alone! Also, you have a pretty awesome blog.
Flesh, you can probably do some form of IP search on Denim Justice via WordPress, then use an online IP whois tool to see which university PC lab they’re using.