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Media Wonk, unplugged - August 27, 2008

Just back from a wee holiday in the Irish countryside, staying at a beautifully renovated old farm house (thanks Stacy and Gerry) with no TV, radio or Internet. Just velour green hillsides dotted with sheep, cows, horses and donkeys. And rain, of course, lots of rain. It was western Ireland, after all. While I certainly don't want to encourage it as a general policy for Media Wonk readers, unplugging once and awhile is not just a fine idea for a vacation but a necessary tonic. For one thing, I found was able to concentrate long enough to read from actual books. Made of paper. Used to do quite a lot of that back in the day, and was both delighted and vaguely alarmed to find myself rediscovering its pleasures.

Visited the grave site of William Butler Yeats, who used to write something they called poetry, which was a popular literary form in the days before the invention of blogging. Wrote his own epitaph for his headstone, too, which was neat:

Cast a cold Eye
on Life, on Death.
Horseman, pass by.

You don't see a lot of bloggers pulling that off.

My thanks to Jennifer Netherby for holding down the fort while I was away.

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