Mark Bernstein: “The core challenge of the weblog is simply that we’re always coming into the middle of the story.” This is what I meant with my post Orientation. ¶ I’ll steal the David Mamet quote, from his book On Directing Film:
In film or on the street, people who describe themselves to you are lying. Here is the difference: In the bad film, the fellow says, “hello, Jack, I’m coming over to your home this evening because I need to get the money you borrowed from me.” In the good film, he says, “where the hell were you yesterday?”