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A port­manteau. A treas­ure trove. A time cap­sule. A poetry book. A diary. A photo album. Memor­ies. Dreams. Wishes. Hopes. An open letter to an unsus­pect­ing public. An intim­ate con­fes­sion to close friends. A declar­a­tion of intent. A whis­per of love. A per­sonal record. An exper­i­ment in intro­spec­tion. A per­form­ance space. A polit­ical rant. A wild yawp. Why do any of us pub­lish our words and images online? Come, dream with me.

For the record

I should have dis­al­lowed com­ments on that very per­sonal post of mine that was meant to be merely inform­at­ive. I have gone back and altered that so that none of the more emo­tional com­ments I made are vis­ible. Apo­lo­gies. I wasn’t in a very stable mood at the time.

Perspective

Noth­ing like the full Amer­ican PR machine to put the world into per­spect­ive. Bremer: “We got him”. Fas­cin­at­ing state­ment because it’s pos­sible for him in this media-sat­ur­ated world to make that state­ment. We all *know* who “he” is, because if Bremer is making the…

Sean Astin is great

I am so impressed that there is actu­ally a debate between Sean Astin and Elijah Wood in the com­ment­ary of LOTR:TTT over whether the line “There’s some good in the world, Mister Frodo and it’s worth fight­ing for” is an expli­cit con­don­ing of war or not. Astin tells a…

Empty

Some of you may have heard that apo­cra­ph­ilia had agreed to be a donor for me and that I was going to try to get preg­nant early next year. I was really hoping my first public post about this was going to be a happy announce­ment of suc­cess. We had a signed agreement…

More ResFest

Over­load! Over­load! Very funky clips and shorts. Inter­stella 5555 was as superb as the One More Time clip had led me to expect it would be but not as funky as Wave Twisters. Love Roman Cop­pola’s clip for Phoenix’s Funky Square Dance. Love Isobel Knowles clip for…

ResFest

Today was long and exhaust­ing but very sat­is­fy­ing. I am now sit­ting up in my bed having rubbed beau­ti­ful L’Oc­citane foot cream into my tired, sore feet. Just got back from the after-party after-party at Cherry. The after-party at Zar­gatt was good but fin­ished too…

Not sleeping

God knows why I’m awake but anyhow… was trawl­ing and found a meme I actu­ally like (eep! and yes, I still owe some people answers to ques­tions). Anyhow, a cut-up tool using your LJ as input. Came up with this for me: Let down there right this kind of words and I was…

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

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I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.