Les Jones

Johnia Berry > Light Blogging Here, Notes on the Johnia Berry Case

Home sick today. I'll probably putter around the house and finish the Christmas decorations.

I haven't blogged much here this week. In large part that was due to the demands of working on JohniaBerry.org and helping out with the media and getting Kelly up to speed on Blogger.

In part, too, it was that I didn't have a taste for blogging about current events. Writing about a young girl's death doesn't mix well with writing about the latest stupidity of the current batch of elected political idiots.

It's an old problem in publishing. The gravest thing sits on the page next to the lightest, and it's an embarassment. TV news people are probably reluctant to admit it, but the commercials are sometimes a blessing. They provide two minutes of separation between the earthquake victims and the celebrity wedding and by then most people will have forgotten.

Mostly it's motivated me to revisit some unfinished reviews of old movies, to step out of time.