What you need when you need it

I approach writing this post in a somewhat lightheaded and dissolute mood. I have been re-reading some of my old newsletter articles and I'm once again swept away in the soaring rhetoric and aching ambition they embody. These were tirades written by somebody who "wants to be somebody." At the same time, I'm faced with the 2008 reality of domain parking sites -- I looked at meek.com and had to chuckle at the odd juxtaposition of links -- 3D avatars and Christian Singles. I had to chuckle again at the circular logic at play in these sites -- you're never actually going to get anywhere, but somewhere, somebody has a meter running and is collecting micropennies from your confusion. The cognitive dissonance I'm experiencing has some universal resoenance, I think.