Letterly.net
I signed up for letter.ly about 2 weeks ago after learning about the service during #reverb10 last December. Of course, as luck would have it, right after I began my own subscription blog, letter.ly got caught in the fallout from the Libyan conflict:
“Last week, the agency that we used to register the letter.ly domain was taken down as a side effect of the war in libya (.ly is the libyan top level domain). our domain registration expired, and we were unable to renew it. as the expiration propagated, the site appeared to be dead and emails sent to your subscribers probably bounced.” – letter.ly in an email to authors dated April 4, 2011
While I worried over the weekend about the future of my own “Insights from a Pink Perspective”, the email reassured me that letterly would continue despite international conflicts. So I wrote and sent my second letterly post yesterday and thought I’d give my public blog readers a taste of my first attempt at writing for a subscription service. Below is the start of my letterly entry entitled Arrested in Milwaukee dated March 28, 2011:
Remember when TV offered 3 commercial networks, a couple of local stations, PBS and those weird UHF stations on that other dial? I do. I also remember when watching a TV show could be an event, the lives of real people were only seen on the news, and variety shows were just as popular as cooking and reality shows now. Laugh In, The Flip Wilson Show, Sonny and Cher (and then just Cher), and of course Carol Burnett filled their lineup with musicians, actors and actresses, and comedians.
Variety shows introduced me to George Carlin. Now, he had to keep it clean on network television, but he let loose on his comedy records. That’s how I discovered the 7 dirty words you can’t say on television – on a record entitled Class Clown. I won’t list them here; now that we have wikepedia, you can look them up yourselves and also discover he was arrested in Milwaukee for performing that routine in 1972.
George Carlin loved language. The routine began
“I love words. I thank you for hearing my words. I want to tell you something about words that I think is important. They’re my work, they’re my play, they’re my passion.”
I too love words, and you can read mine at http://www.letterly.net/lgesin
Elizabeth Marie 5:54 am on April 11, 2011 Permalink |
Thank you so much for that George Carlin quote! I’d forgotten it. I was trying to explain to someone a couple of days ago why I consider the “f” word a perfectly legitimate word. “work, play, passion.” Wonderful. Good luck with your letter.ly venture!