Short Bursts #1

'The good news about blogging is that it's extraneous to what really matters: poems. We move through phases of conceptual and complex thought, and oftentimes poems are products of complexes. Sometimes the conceptual (theoretical? is theory always conceptual?) gets in the way of the poems. I think it's important to maintain these categories and/or compartments in order to work better. Less can be more. Etc.' - Laura Carter

'It's worth noting as an aside that the most pernicious conspiracy theory about the 9/11 attacks was promoted by the American state. In the run-up to the Iraq war every effort was made to link Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda. Those who want to debunk conspiracy theories have an awkward time with this one - that particular paranoid fantasy wasn't pushed by the tinfoil hat brigade, but by a highly focussed and skilled group of people working in secret to manage the perceptions of the American and global public ... A conspiracy to promote a (false) conspiracy theory.' - Dan Hind