West Wing rec :: RL politics :: icon drabble meme

"All I Want" by keladryb (G, gen). A short piece about CJ belonging and not belonging at the table. I love Keladry's sense of the rhythm and insistent pulse of WW, the hairsplitting semantics, ambition and ethics climbing all over each other in a desperate need to be heard. If you like the show, you'll like this ficlet.

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Yesterday, C-SPAN aired the entirety of an episode of the Dick Cavett Show from June 1971, in which a young John Kerry, representing Vietnam Veterans Against The War, debated an even younger representative of Vietnam Veterans For A Just Peace.

I watched all of it, and it was fascinating on several different levels. For one thing, this show was taped a decade before I was born, and it was extremely illuminating to hear the issues of the day discussed with the fervor of immediacy. I knew what vietnamization was before today (though I had to dig it up out of high school memories), but now I doubt I'll ever forget it.

( political ramblings, vaguely pro-Kerry )

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In other news, double_helix wrote me an icon-drabble! Little Red Riding Hood ficlet, oh my: "Innocent" (PG). I love it to pieces.

For those who don't know, this is a meme where people request a drabble based on one of your icons. I don't know that my icons are terribly inspirational, but if anyone feels moved to make such a request, go for it.

West Wing rec :: RL politics :: icon drabble meme

"All I Want" by keladryb (G, gen). A short piece about CJ belonging and not belonging at the table. I love Keladry's sense of the rhythm and insistent pulse of WW, the hairsplitting semantics, ambition and ethics climbing all over each other in a desperate need to be heard. If you like the show, you'll like this ficlet.

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Yesterday, C-SPAN aired the entirety of an episode of the Dick Cavett Show from June 1971, in which a young John Kerry, representing Vietnam Veterans Against The War, debated an even younger representative of Vietnam Veterans For A Just Peace.

I watched all of it, and it was fascinating on several different levels. For one thing, this show was taped a decade before I was born, and it was extremely illuminating to hear the issues of the day discussed with the fervor of immediacy. I knew what vietnamization was before today (though I had to dig it up out of high school memories), but now I doubt I'll ever forget it.

( political ramblings, vaguely pro-Kerry )

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In other news, double_helix wrote me an icon-drabble! Little Red Riding Hood ficlet, oh my: "Innocent" (PG). I love it to pieces.

For those who don't know, this is a meme where people request a drabble based on one of your icons. I don't know that my icons are terribly inspirational, but if anyone feels moved to make such a request, go for it.