Leaving for Bulgaria

Leaving for the airport in a couple of minutes. Just wanted to let you all know that while in Bulgaria, I will write in my livejournal. Please come by.

LJ-mylittlewords

Hope y'all are doing well.

Panic

I am leaving for Bulgaria on Thursday. As always, there are tons of things to do before I go and I am already getting a glimpse of the state of panic I will be in within the next 24 hours. But, again, I know that as soon as I get there, it will all go away. I hate flying but I can't wait to get on that plane.

Karbovski

Every week I get at least a couple of visits from people who'd googled 'Martin Karbovski'. For all my non-Bulgarian readers, Martin Karbovski is a Bulgarian journalist who became famous (or should I say, infamous) for his provocative pieces on drugs and sex. I admit this is an overly concise account of a prolific writer and public figure, but with all honesty, I have never been a big fan. I find his writing simplistic, misogynistic and often insensitive and under-researched. But that's beyond the point. Back to where I started, people seem to find my site after doing searches for him. And tonight it just occurred to me that he could be google-ing his name and always ending up here. What a disappointment that must be!

Misc.

I was supposed to spend the entire day transcribing interviews for my supervisor. What I did instead was take breaks from it. Like, all day long. I tried to read a Lawrence Lessig article on the first anniversary of the Free Culture Movement in the July issue of Wired but I couldn't even finish it because he annoys the bejeezus out me. I will finish it before I go to bed though. Flipping through a copy of my sister's The Future of Music made me jealous of the professional life she's chosen for herself. Last week she was invited backstage at a Thievery Corporation concert because one of the band-members noticed her rocking her socks off at a club in Berlin. I also noticed that 'rocking' is not the most appropriate verb to describe her dance-style in this particular situation.

I am also grateful for having an audience of observant individuals who choose to come by even when I have nothing meaningful to say. Miss K managed to poke my political rib and got me thinking about the relevance of Live8 and I will produce a semi-coherent (hopefully) text about it some time soon.

As far as sonyphone's question about The Edge is concerned, all I have to say is that he makes me tingle inside in mysterious ways. All puns intended.