Andy Affleck

That Song

Published on March 15, 2004 by Andy Affleck

I got into a conversation today about my dislike of the Greenwood song that’s been all the rage since 9/11. My own simplistic opinion is that it just emphasizes the wrong things and smacks of “we’re better than all the rest of you” and that this is the only place one is free, etc. It’s just an ugly song from a global perspective.

This article, Metro Pulse/Gamut/Our Sacred Ditty, goes much farther in its critique.

Funny thing is that I actually feel somewhat nervious stating this opinion and I think that is the main reason why the song bothers me. It riles up those “If you aren’t with us then you are against us” feelings. Weird.

Comments

Published on March 13, 2004 by Andy Affleck

I have shut off commenting across this entire site. Honestly, I’m just sick of that aspect of things. Comments fell into a few categories:

Spam (the majority, and a waste of my time)
People asking questions of me as if I were the actual author of those items to which I linked. Either I am unclear when I cite items, people really don’t get how weblogs work, people are really that stupid, or all of the above.
Comments to entries that are so old that I wondered why the commenters bothered. It’s not like there’s active, ongoing, interesting debate happening out there. It’s just another entry on a long-forgotten page.
Good comments to a current entry. I think this has happened two or three times ever.

In short, if you have something to say, post it in your own blog and do a trackback ping. If you can’t do that, then email me or post to your own site and email me that you did so I can check in and respond if I feel like it.

OK? OK.