On Revisionism

Mel posted a lovely note about the spontaneity of what we’ve been writing. For those of you who haven’t read it, she advised against going back to fix previous mistakes. In this version of how to write the blog, mistakes stay up, and we can correct them moving forward (i.e. in subsequent posts), but we can’t rewrite history. Well…….

1. As Ralph says, we have to be right.

2. Seriously, I think Mel’s mostly right, and I think we’ve been pretty good about it, but…

3. I hate misspelling, so if you guys see one that I missed, let me know, and I am going to fix it. More importantly…..

4. It bothers both of us to misjudge people, and leaving a misjudgment up that is totally off base or is/could be construed as being mean seems not right. So I’m afraid revisionism is going to win out in those cases.

In the spirit of the above, we confess to the following:

• With respect to Mama Janis and her daughter, whose name we’re embarrassed to say, we don’t know, we obviously had our gaydar in overdrive and/or have a sad lack of familiarity with Middle America.
• Having developed such a strong distaste for Galina that we are prepared to believe the worst of her, we are embarrassed that it turns out that the bureaucracy here gets the Washington Post before the Post posts on its website, and that for once she wasn’t lying to us.