Dear www.davebias.org
Some people understand that time runs by quickly, especially when you’re in pre-labor. I remember working with you, and still miss your amazing reactivity and snapping professionalism. And subtlety. I’ve always felt you stand above the crowd. Well, you might have a European counterpart… There should be a virtual round of applause for Mr Q, my virtual host and good friend, who has set this blog up for me at the speed of light. Improvements and changes will come as he can, but hey, how ’bout it? I knew that before I pushed, I’d blog.
As I so luminously decided, each blog post will be addressed to someone. I’ll tweak the concept as I explore it, but I really like the idea. I’m wondering how to handle the bilingual thing… And maybe all my lovable Newyorkers will start working on their French, dammit. And move to Paris. Dammit.
Of course, I felt like my first official blog letter, after the initial one to Nancy, should be to you, Dave. And you know why. I mean, besides the fact you’re one of the first bloggers out there, and massively talented, and smart, anf funny (as ie intelligent funny), well, you’re an inspiration. And the website you’d made for Yours truly and the Cosmic Joke Collective was such a gift (can you believe that url’s current content?). And we share a love for awesome weird music and book recommendations, even if they don’t have a compilation club here! And you’re my friend. And your blog rules. I’m pretty confident your name will head a lot of my letters, and inspire a lot of my questionning and commenting on life, education, and general world nonsense. I’ll try to spare you tech details on childbirth. Directly that is.
Because, for sure, you know me, there’s bound to me some *serious* questions and comments on childbirth and babies and can someone tell me why nobody talks about prelabor, for crying out loud??? I’ve spoken to 5 friends about it. Same reaction all around : “oh yeah that’s right, I forgot all about that” (which is actually closer to “ah oui, tiens, c’est vrai, j’avais oublié”)… I tell you, I know there’s something oozed by the brain right after the baby comes out, some superpowered hormone that makes women forget how tough it is to be pregnant and then in labor and all that, and I understand that human evolution and species depend on women not remembering all that has to do with it in order to actually keep on reproducing, but to think that such a total brainwash is actually 100% effective, well, wow.
Sorry, Dave, that’s kinda direct baby birth stuff you just got here. I’ll leave you to work and will now proceed to go speak to my future human being and explain to her that despite all my ranting, I can’t wait for her to come out so I, you, we all get to meet her…
Miss you and lots of love!
M-N
July 29th, 2005 at 8:44 am
I love the blog. The collective, now truly cosmic, meets cyberspace! It’s too bad we can’t somehow define and patent the brainwashing mechanism, harness all that energy and use it to save the universe. But I am naive… goodnight.