Inkanta
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Posted: Aug. 29 2009, 17:25 |
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Quote (Silver Negus @ Aug. 27 2009, 15:32) | who can really know anybody? |
Totally agree, Silver. Not even sure I know myself, let alone anyone else. <-:
Are any of you ever interviewed by the media, out of curiosity? I find it scary and absolutely amazing how they can pull things out of context, recombine, and get a totally different msg out than anything resembling what you said. That happens to me. Then there is the time that an editor friend printed a statement that I'd made in jest, "Oh. We think she's a refugee from Betelgeuse" (referring to my oldest daughter who was 5 weeks old at the time) and it ended up in the Oct 1987 issue of Sky & Telescope. I was horrified. And here he was a friend! Ha! Of course, there are some really top-notch journos out there who really listen, and ask great questions (including that one, actually). I don't think the one interviewing Mike falls into that category.
Interviews rarely go the way you think they are going to, and even worse if you are having a bad day. The statements about music, friends, the house being boarded up--maybe he had boarded the house up for the hurricane that almost hit the Bahamas--that's what ppl do--and it was left while they're traveling. We really don't know how much was pulled out of context and what was said out of irritation and frustration. Maybe his blood sugar crashed. The first time I read it I thought, "Oh my." The second time I read it, I wondered if he was having a good laugh and the entire thing was meant to be wickedly ironic. The third time I read it...oh yeah....there hasn't been a third time. But, ATM, I am thinking "OK....whatever. Hucana matata. Peace, Love, and Pony Swims." And watch out for the evil eye of the hurricane.
-------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From: Moongarden's "Solaris."
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