Crème de bloggers
It’s been a while since I’ve done a round-up of brilliant writing produced by those I am proud to call my small circle of friends in the blogging community – or should that be communities? So what have I got for you? Well, I’ve got the story of the devil’s wreath (or how a Christmas door decoration struck fear into the hearts of the narrow-mindedly godly), the most famous UFO sighting in Quebec’s history, and the welcome return to the blogosphere of a literary cowboy.
Howard writes what for me is the very best post of his I’ve read to date, all about a Christmas wreath in the shape of the CND symbol. How incredible is it that anyone could see such an item as a danger and take offence at it? And how much more incredible is it that people spend time campaigning and speaking out against such things? Don’t they have better things to do? This really is a great story, well-presented. I know when I see good writing. I tingle. That’s because I’m so into words used well, sometimes it’s scary.
Sue and Matthew bring to the table the fascinating story of a UFO seen in the sky for over three hours emitting beams of light and estimated to be 540 meters wide. No conclusions are drawn – rightly – but it’s interesting to note that Bernard Guénette, a UFO researcher in Montreal, and Dr Richard Haines, a former NASA scientist, published a report on the incident in which they claimed ‘evidence for the existence of a highly unusual, hovering, silent large object’ was ‘indisputable’.
If one accepts the possibility that alien or other-dimensional beings visit our world – which is not to say believes, only believes that this might happen – then the question that then swims around the mind without hope of answer, it would seem, is why? Why visit this planet? If greys, greens or pinstripe-pink-and-yellows are dropping by, what could they be up to? Of course, this is one reason why I love so much science-fiction and fantasy: I love unprovable but entertaining ideas that have just a hint of might happen, maybe, one day… I hope, in the case of UFOs, that if ever absolute proof is found, it isn’t bad news…
Mark, editor of The Picolata Review, has been completely absent in an online context for several months now. It turns out he’s been very ill, so my best wishes to him for his ongoing recovery. His comeback blog entry, I don’t care what you read in the obituaries, carries the trademarks his long-term readers have come to recognise, appreciate, and – for a while until now – missed greatly: good writing, warm humour, sharp wit. Welcome back, Mark.
I hope you, my own precious clutch of readers, enjoy checking out all of the above. I’ll post more ‘crème de bloggers’ as time goes by…
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