{"id":327,"date":"2004-04-14T19:14:53","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T23:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/04\/14\/my-unexpected-fanbase\/"},"modified":"2004-04-14T19:14:53","modified_gmt":"2004-04-14T23:14:53","slug":"my-unexpected-fanbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/04\/14\/my-unexpected-fanbase\/","title":{"rendered":"My Unexpected Fanbase"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was pleasantly surprised today to find that my life-partner*\/boyfriend\/significant-other\/common-law spouse\/partner\/husband’s mother is now turned on to my blog! I set up my blog to send notifications to my work email address whenever a person posts a comment. Today, I was notified that Iris (Matt’s Mom) made some posts! How sweet! Now that my mother-in-law is reading my blog I’m going to have to be sure to keep things clean around here! he he.<\/P>
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Though, speaking of the viewers of my blog…who exactly are blogs for? Is it for the blogger to document his\/her life? Or is it for the reader to be entertained? I’m perplexed. <\/P>
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For me, it’s been therapeutic to share an anecdote or complain about something I’ve observed. It’s also managed to re-connect me with old friends and to help me make a few new cyber-friends. So, both of those situations are leading me to think that blogging has been more of a benefit for me.<\/P>
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So, here’s today’s boring story about my life. Because I’m a cheap bastard, I attended a luncheon seminar at Harvard today to take advantage of the free food. Various faculty members (Alan Dershowitz, Marsha Field, Charles Ogletree, John Coates) were speaking about their experiences and recollections of Brown vs. Board of Education (the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that decided segregated schools were unconstitutional). It was quite interesting and a good way to spend a lunch hour – I’m glad I did it. It amazes me that this ruling was part of recent history. You’d have thought (and hoped) that something so basic would have been corrected in the 1860’s when slavery was abolished. Even more depressing is that Boston managed to maintain school segregation until 1974 when the supreme court had to jump in once again. I was alive in 1974**!!!!! Sickening.<\/P>
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*Some day in the near future it’s going to be a helluva lot easier for gay people to describe the person they love since in just 4 weeks gay marriage will be legal in Massachusetts!<\/P>
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**Please note that I was only 3 years old in 1974 because I’m young and pretty.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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