[WEB4LIB] FW: LJ: ALA Prez-Elect Gorman on the "Blog People"

[John Creech]

> "Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that
> many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex
> texts."

Via TiVo I just caught last night's Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart on Comedy 
Central.  Peter Jennings was his guest.  Peter Jennings reads blogs.  So 
does Jon Stewart.  So do I.  Gee, Gorman must be smarter than all three of 
us.

What a burden it must be when your beatific words fail so thoroughly to 
convince the fanatics lurking behind those ones and zeros.

I live with continual and myriad voices in my head--as John Fogerty says, 
"Deja vu all over again."  Right now I'm hearing lyrics from a Lyle Lovett 
song called "The Road to Ensenada":

"You can offer to the righteous the good that you have won
But down here among the unclean your good work just comes undone."

We have failed you, Mr. Gorman.  We are unclean.  We are not worthy.

Does anyone know if one may cancel their ALA membership and get a 
pro-rated refund?  I just p!ssed away a hundred and eighty dollars.

john creech