Diaryland: November 2002 Archives

I know I never talked about my trip to NYC. It's not because I didn't have a good time. It's because there was so much I wanted to say about it, but couldn't express it the way I wanted to, that I put it off. Now it's old news.

I remember about 11 years ago when I bought my first CD. "Classic rock" was the big new thing to us then. We were listening to CCR, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Guess Who, The Doors and so on and so forth. We had discovered some pretty incredible shit let me tell you. I bought Led Zeppelin III.

There was this kid from Jamaica that had been living in Brockville for only a few years. I walked into the arcade after buying the CD and saw him. He asked me what I had bought, and I proudly showed it to him. He sneered at me.

"Why you buyin' the white man's music?" he said with contempt.

I tried to explain to him that it was everyone's music, and that I liked this music, but he wasn't having any of that. I never spoke to him much after that.

I have good friends. Crystal (former good friend, I suppose) attempted to defend me at Robyn's. That was very sweet. Robyn responded. It seems as though I am not the only one who might misinterpret another's opinion. This is what she said to Crystal:

Hey, I'm being publicly flamed by a well-known Florida blogger called Robyn. Hopefully she'll put up the entry that pissed her off, rather than a link to the latest in this journal/blog/whateveryouwanttocallit. I'll have to email her. She seems pretty pissed off, although I am not sure why. It's just little old me. I didn't think the name-calling was necessary, but that's Robyn, I guess. I have been known to sling the shit myself. Here's her email to me:

As many of you know, Karyn Bosnak is now debt-free. She was on the Today Show this week being a ditz apparently, evading questions about the ethics of what she did asking strangers to give her money to help pay off her ridiculous $20000 credit card debt. I have my own views on that, but maybe later. Right now I want to talk about another gimme campaign, and gimme campaigns in general.

UPDATE 10/6/04: Statia's blog is now at It's So Not About You and she is know as "Sporty". Both empowering and cute.