Carnacki's away, the mice will play! While we wish C the best on his vacation, now the inmates are running the asylum! I have not formally introduced our two newest Top Comments diarists, - va dare and gloriana - for a very simple reason.Their work speaks for itself, and tells more about them than I ever could. I've been deeply impressed, however, and inspired by their work.
What would YOU like to see in Comments? What kind of comments appeal to you the most? What comments would YOU pick, if you were TC diarist of the day? Let us know! And, if comment mining holds interest for you, please consider joining us! I think our diarists would agree that it's a very novel way to explore the community. You might be surprised! Please email me if you have interest in this! Also, since C is away, if you have comments you would like to pimp or see recognized, send me those as well! I'll check up until about 9 pm ET each night. Later than that will be difficult to incorporate in diaries we try to post by 10 ET.
More below the partition!
First, some book-keeping. besieged by bush submitted
this comment from yesterday's crop. It's too late to give mojo, but it's easy to see why the comment achieved so much on the day! Thanks for the headsup, bbb!
Now for tonight's comments!
Those who read my TC diaries know I have a minor fascination for tip jar comments. Tonight's tip jar is courtesy of mrsdbrown1, who credits her son with the photographs used in her diary about a visit to DC, his medium to explore his young idealism. Isn't that a fine sentiment and endeavor?! Please give some mojo for a young progressive artist and mind!
This is what rserven has to say on dKos etiquette in DawnG's diary on the subject.
beaukitty on the trials and tribulations of writing.
mem from somerville comments on the possibilities of diary writing.
It isn't a comment, and it isn't a diary. It's a diary's TITLE! clammyc teaches us how to show restraint in naming diaries! (Being a bit facetious there. ::wink::) And then clammycdoubles the pleasure, doubles the fun with an innovative tip jar title!
skywriter's fine diary-like comment on historians in general and Zinn's Declarations of Independence in particular, in va dare's (our latest Top Comments diarist!) rec list diary on Zinn. Zinn Buddhists arise! (va dare identified this comment as being one of the best in the comment threads for that diary.)
A very gracious Happy Birthday comment from joynow.
Finally, my personal favorite among today's comments. Considerate thoughtfulness from ilona on jimstaro's July Fourth diary. I doubt ilona considers this to be one of her finest comments. I am sure she'd be correct in thinking that. Except, jimstaro, whom many of us know as a fine dKos diarist, posted his diary this am, and ilona's was the sole comment the diary received (until I posted a comment).
Perhaps this seems a simple thing. Nightprowlkitty wrote a fine rec list diary to diarists who don't quite reach the rec list. One comment in that diary, by beaukitty, (which I already cited, above) likens writing to childbirth. I demurred because, of course, I don't know what that is like. But I can surely imagine how one's writing, once published in some manner or another, is like one's offspring, which we wish well, which we watch lovingly. And when that offspring isn't as well received as we might wish, it tugs our heartstrings. As I read it, ilona thanked jimstaro for his fine creative product. And that's something, in her simple comment posting, which touches me very deeply indeed.