gakked from wiliqueen

This idea comes courtesy of crisper. Do you have your own website? If so, let's turn the net into something surreal on January 27.

January 27th is the birthday of Lewis Carroll, author of ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Alice fell down a rabbit hole into a place where everything had changed and none of the rules could be counted on to apply anymore. I say, let's do the same: January 27th, 2005 should be the First Annual [blog] Rabbit Hole Day. When you post on that Thursday, instead of the normal daily life and work and news and politics, write about the strange new world you have found yourself in for the day, with its strange new life and work and news and politics. Are your pets talking back at you now? Has your child suddenly grown to full adulthood? Does everyone at work think you're someone else now? Did Bush step down from the White House to become a pro-circuit tap-dancer? Did Zoroastrian missionaries show up on your doorstep with literature in 3-D? Have you been placed under house arrest by bizarre insectoid women wielding clubs made of lunchmeat?

Let's have a day where nobody's life makes sense anymore, where any random [blog] you click on will bring you some strange new tale. Let's all fall down the Rabbit Hole for 24 hours and see what's there. It will be beautiful.

I'm all for it! (of course, my life doesn't make sense anyway, so heh!)

ps. For those anxious about the sister, yes, she will live. And for those who don't mind a bit of ( blood and ickiness )

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Dinner at Mum's tonight. The Great Aussie Tradition of the BBQ.

*waves to the new people*

observation of cultural differences

It occurs to me that LJing Americans are far more intensely political creatures than LJing Australians. And no, not just because 'nobody cares about Australian politics' - it's an attitude that we bring (or don't bring) to the table when discussing politics and policies.

Granted, I think I have about a dozen Aussies on my f-list, but none of them have any political party that I could tell you of - other than election time, the attitude towards politics is that it's mostly for politicians. I'd say it's not that we don't care, just that our lives and the way we view the world is more important and less earth-shattering than holding to a particular political party or believing in a political ideology.

This seems to differ vastly from your average LJing American - although I probably do many LJing non-political Americans wrong in saying so. Let's just say that almost all the political comments on my f-list come from Americans, with the exception of one or two from Europe/UK. Granted, I have alot of Americans on my f-list - apparently they breed or something? *g* - but even those who don't post politics on LJ, talk about it offline.

I'm hoping to meet with a bunch of Aussie LJers in the next few days, quite a few of whom aren't on my f-list. I doubt we'll talk politics or anything near that. Fandoms, personal things, silly stuff...but not politics or political parties.

It's an interesting difference to contemplate.