{"id":5032,"date":"2004-09-27T14:29:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T18:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/09\/27\/the-makeshift-curtain\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:24","slug":"the-makeshift-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/09\/27\/the-makeshift-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"the makeshift curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2331'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<P>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/approx.gif\" alt=\"approx\" \/><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">my wardrobe<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">full of&nbsp;faded clothes<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Monday morning<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>community play<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>a small boy peeps under<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>the makeshift curtain<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">by&nbsp;<\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.worldhaiku.net\/poetry\/eng\/uk\/m.morden.htm\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#ff0000\" size=\"2\">Matt Morden<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"1\">&nbsp; from <\/FONT><A href='http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=stripbooks&amp;field-keywords=\"A New Resonance 2\"\/102-4810311-4254502'><FONT><STRONG><FONT size=\"1\"><FONT color=\"#000000\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">A<EM> New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices<\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"1\"><EM> <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\"><FONT size=\"1\"><EM>in English-Language Haiku<\/EM>&nbsp; <\/FONT><FONT size=\"1\">(Jim Kacian, Dee Evetts, eds.&nbsp;Red Moon Press, 2001)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"1\"><EM><\/EM><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><EM><FONT size=\"1\"><\/FONT><\/EM>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><EM><FONT size=\"1\"><\/FONT><\/EM>&nbsp;<\/DIV><SPAN><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV align=\"left\"><FONT><FONT><FONT><FONT>by&nbsp;<EM><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/stories\/storyReader$379\"><FONT color=\"red\">dagosan<\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT>:<\/FONT><FONT>&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\"><FONT size=\"1\"><EM><\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><EM>bathroom<\/EM><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><EM>exhaust fan<\/EM><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><EM>exhausted<\/EM><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><EM><\/EM>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><EM>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/fullmoom.gif\" alt=\"full moon\" \/><\/EM><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Arial\"><SPAN><SPAN><FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/06\/27#a1700\"><FONT color=\"black\"><EM>one-breath&nbsp;pundit<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A><EM>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"#666666; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia\"><FONT color=\"#000000\"><FONT face=\"Arial\"><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\">Why are people surprised that viewers of Comedy Central&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/tv_shows\/thedailyshowwithjonstewart\/\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/A>&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\">are more likely than non-viewers to know candidate&#8217;s positions and backgrounds?&nbsp; A joke is<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\">only funny if you &#8220;get&#8221; the allusion and context.(See <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org\/naes\/2004_03_late-night-knowledge-2_9-21_pr.pdf\"><FONT color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">Annenberg Study<\/FONT><\/A><FONT size=\"2\">; via <A href=\"http:\/\/www.bespacific.com\/mt\/archives\/006707.html#6707\">beSpacific<\/A>)<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"#666666; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia\"><FONT color=\"#000000\"><FONT face=\"Arial\"><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\">Will everyone who has NOT made a bad Cat-Stvens-song-title pun in the past 5 days please raise<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\">their hand?&nbsp; The rest of us need to exercise more discipline and creativity.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"#666666; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia\"><FONT color=\"#000000\"><FONT face=\"Arial\"><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<DIV><br \/>\n<DIV>Saturday, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ernietheattorney.net\/ernie_the_attorney\/2004\/09\/the_ephemeral_b.html\"><FONT color=\"black\">Ernie Svenson<\/FONT><\/A>&nbsp;marvelled at&nbsp;a one-post only &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.ernietheattorney.net\/ernie_the_attorney\/2004\/09\/the_ephemeral_b.html\">ephemeral blog<\/A>&#8220;.&nbsp; We explored this topic last year, while asking <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/10\/04#a313\"><FONT color=\"black\">Does the Blogosphere Exist?<\/FONT><\/A>, and spotlighting the weblog&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vespertine\/member\/editorsOnly\">vespertine<\/A>, which got 300 page hits 4 months after its&nbsp;single, two-sentence post. &nbsp;(Also, see&nbsp;the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.perseus.com\/blogsurvey\/\"><FONT color=\"black\">Perseus<\/FONT><\/A> Report)<\/DIV><\/DIV>&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/LI><\/UL><\/UL><br \/>\n<P><\/P><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; my wardrobe full of&nbsp;faded clothes Monday morning &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; community play a small boy peeps under the makeshift curtain &nbsp; &nbsp; by&nbsp;Matt Morden&nbsp; from A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku&nbsp; (Jim Kacian, Dee Evetts, eds.&nbsp;Red Moon Press, 2001)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; by&nbsp;dagosan:&nbsp; bathroom exhaust fan exhausted &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1ja","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13612,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions\/13612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}