Monday, September 05, 2005

Coming attractions

Try as I might, I have been unable to write anything intelligible about Katrina and its attendant horrors.  Not that there’s a dearth of words all around us on New Orleans and FEMA and Dubya and racism and horrors and heroism and water and destruction and politicizing and and and and.  I’ll just reiterate my support for the skippy challenge, and ask you again to give what you can to the NGOs trying to do what FEMA and the government are supposed to do.  Look here for my own list of them.

Instead, I’m challenging myself to write on several other, more locally-relevant topics in the next little while.  And I’m making my self-challenge right here in public, which might help spur me to actually write the entries.  Or perhaps spur one or another of you dozen or so readers of this thing to yell at me if I don’t.

The first topic I’ll write on is last Saturday’s Gig Harbor Folk Festival, which featured a number of my old favorite singer-songwriters as well as a few good ones I hadn’t heard previously.

After that, a series on the 2005 Seattle and King County electoral season.  We’re electing quite a few city and county officials this year, and I plan to review the candidates and issues in some detail.  I hope to get through this series before my departure next Sunday for a week-long business meeting in Baltimore.  If not, it (or at least “round 1” of the review) really does need to be finished before Washington’s September 20 primary.

So there it is.  Please hold me to this commitment.