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June 25, 2005
A new Enterprise
Well when you are forty seven, they are things you should not do, I hit the Gym at Eight O'clock today. I did my forty five minutes Cardio, and then went for the weights. Shawn the sweetest trainer we have in the GYm was also trining by himself, doing shoulders, he is thirty three. I joined him, trying to keep up with him, and soon I knew I was in trouble, but being a Scorpio that I am I love challanges, so for the next hour I lifted some of the heaviest weights I have ever. But I kept up, and by the end of session I knew My arms would never walk again !
I came back to the store, feeling fresh but knowing that I will be soar, so took two advil, and got to the site. My new musical discovery
is a group called KEANE , the lead singers voice is heavenly, thhe songs have more of European tempo to them, the lyrics are wonderfull, so driving down to work today I was getting high on the songs, and with all my windows and the sunroof open it was a trip.
I am having such a good time with the book, thinking about Malcolm and his adventures, he is a good soul, and he is set for such a surprises in his life. I think to some extent he has some of sensibilities and innocence of Amin my son, not that he is based on Amin, you see characters are usually composite of many people you know or have seen in your life. Brian is also based on somebody I knew and was my roomate for a while, Physically he would be exactly like my roomate, but his character again would be based on a composite of many people. Then we have Sophie, which will play a big part in Both Malcolm and Brian's life, and Sara, she also would balance the story with her patience, calm, collected logic and reasoning. But Malcolm which is not based on my character at all would be the Major player, and somehow he has become so dear to me, and he does occupy my thoughts a lot.
You know I have always been a sucker for smart people, nothing to me is sexier than intteligence. I wrote a comment on Ferryis site LIVELIFE yesterday, and there was a line in there that was quite of a Gem, and after writing it I was so taken by it. I was very curios to see if anyone would pick it up for its shrewed, breathless meaning, and FEREYDOON got it. You see what has happened on internet is rather curious, you know how as human we have not learned very well to listen to each other, since I started this site I have noticed that now the same ignarance is getting obvious in the way people read, yes, they rush so fast through the pieces that they do not see everything that is in there, so now, we do not listen well, and we even do not listen to ourselves as we read. Fereydoon showed me that he does listen well, on the internet as well as in life.
Fereydoon is doing such a gangbuster job on his site, the depth and the range of topics he covers is amasing, it shows how he respects and enjoys what he does and how he also respects and enjoys the comments he gets. I also have noticed that we have such a wonderfull friends, and each of them as thoughtfull as they are they are also very diverse in their Talents. I like to make a proposition. I think we should put our efforts together, and create a new Newspaper on line, we have the Talents amongst us to cover many topics. SL is a shrink with wonderfull insights in that world, Inasy an accomplished writer which seems to know a lot about women, and Islam. Fereydoon a business man with a heart of Gold, and such a good observer of the life sarrounding him and also an accomplished writer. Cyrus with his Dry delicious sense of humor, and his own unique vision of life, Chey with her Romantic exuberant sense of life and also a good writer, we could do it, of course we would leave Fereydoon to take care of the financial part, and Cyrus to take care of the technical side. We could all invest in this venture as much as we can financially and emotionally and with this group only sky is the limit, so what do you say, let me know. Remember the site will take care of itself after a while with advertisings that it takes and I have enough traust in Cyrus and Fereydoon as business men to know they can guide us well.
So I like to thank Cyrus again and again for his generous allowance to my life and allowing all these wonderfull adventures to happen, for if it was not for him I would not have met some of the most intteligent, inquisitive, old souls that I have so far. I owe you man, and I owe you big, LIFE IS GOOD
Posted by Idinraha at June 25, 2005 10:20 AM
Comments
My initial reaction is WHAT a wonderful concept. My business reaction say lets think and talk about it and my social reaction is lets hear others opinions.
BTW: Thanks for lovely compliments. Keep them coming . Just kiddin ;-)
Posted by: LiveLife ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.idinraha.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at June 25, 2005 03:39 PM
Thank you for the compliment; I have other online friends that would contribute far better to your online newspaper that myself, and there are so many other sites out there that offer so much, what would we do that would be "different."
That does not mean I would not be interested...just would like to know more and especially the time that would be needed to devote to it. Plus I'm really not an expert in anything; I just argue a lot ;-)
Posted by: ShrinkLady at June 25, 2005 04:52 PM
Sorry I was sidetracked with partying and celebrating yesterday!
Off hand I don't think I have the bandwidth to participate in a new venture, assuming that this is something serious that needs full time devotion. But you have not really put forth any details of the nature of this online newspaper. Like ShrinkLady says there are a lot of sites out there. How is this different... I'll be listening!
Posted by: cycho at June 26, 2005 01:30 PM
Dear Idin, Newspapers get started for a great many reasons, but none of which has ever been the ability to recruit a talent base.
As of now, that appears to be the only inspirational fuel we have for such an ambitious enterprise. In my opinion, this is not a reliable enough incentive to ensure its success.
Contrary to what most of the public thinks, Writing is not a democratic process. It relies on ones ability to uphold the undiluted vision of "one mind set" in order to attract an audience.
People will only read that which reinforces their own orientation about the world.
Even major mainstream newspapers are agenda driven. It does not matter that the average journalist is honest, hardworking and invested in the facts. In general, it is the overall organization that will determine the direction if any, a newspaper will take. Whether it is to make profits or promote the welfare state, it is always to the the extent to which they consistnely enforce thier unstated mission, that they have been able to keep the attention of thier audience.
The problem with a group like us, is that we are united by a desire to resist with nothing in common to resist, a desire to write, with nothing in common to write about. Our ability to banter intelligently is not credential enough to sustain the effort required to maintain a newspaper.
Unless we have a very focused political or social theme, or mission, that could attract a specific audience, then anything we produce would be no more interesting a read, then what a message board of diverse voices can generate.
This is not to say that upon further exploration, that such an magnificient idea could not come to frution. I wanted to only highlight that at this embryonic stage, you ought to take into account more pressing factors then how committed or intelligent we all are.. Even if you, and present company, are certainly ALL that, and much much more.
Posted by: Inasy at June 26, 2005 02:27 PM
Excellent points Inas.
"People will only read that which reinforces their own orientation about the world."
Most people are not interested in reading differing viewpoints.
And Cyrus, you are right. A serious devotion to venture of this kind would probably require a lot of time and energy. Since this idea is in it's embryonic stage or should I say a "twinkle in someone eye" there is so much to be thought off and a "plan of action" that is well planned out.
Honestly speaking Idni, I've been part of many ventures in the past 10 years and so far I've not seen many of them materialize; we all live so far away from each other - different states, different cities and most of us interact OK online but in a business venture? It's very complex.
Sorry, I love ideas but I am also a realist. I like organization otherwise I end up taking charge and giving myself an ulcer. I don't want to go there again.
Posted by: ShrinkLady at June 27, 2005 11:01 AM
My friend SL, Dont take the easy way out. every ventures start with a twinkle in someone's eye, the internet would allow us to get over the problem of Distance. and every journey would start with the first step, there is lots of thinking we should do, but it would be a shame to have so much talent and not aspire higher. Easy route lead to nowhere. Remember Colubus could always have taken the left but he did not, so let us not be happy with ordinary and mondane, the difficulty o0f the journey should entice us further, challanges are good, and ulcers can be cured with Antibiotics, so think about it.
Posted by: Idinraha at June 27, 2005 11:08 AM