Motorcycle Bob Completes Journalism Mission
Motorcycle Bob Completes Journalism Mission
Yes, when I woke Brian the Dinosaur up to go on the fruitless mission to find some dumb quote that is posted on the Times Tower he initially said to me:
"Why don't you just look for it on the internet?"
Of course, I said no way, and something about the internet being the slayer of missions.
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Wade from Vagabond Journey.com
in Brooklyn, New York City- September 24, 2008
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The Dinosaur and I could not find the quote anywhere we looked, but Motorcycle Bob came to the rescue and did find what we were looking for:
"I want to always fight for progress and reform; never tolerate injustice or corruption; always fight demagogues of all parties; never belong to any party; always oppose privileged classes and public plunder; never lack sympathy with the poor; always remain devoted to the public welfare; never be satisfied with merely printing the news; always be drastically independent; never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty."
He found it on the internet.
I must sadly tell the Dinosaur that he had the right idea.
It is a sign of our times - and perhaps a sad state of affairs - when it is far easier to find information on the internet than it is at the grassroots source; when the virtual world is far more easier to use than the real one. I went to the place were this quote was written, I looked the Times Tower up and down, asked a dozen people, and could not find it. Whereas Motorcycle Bob gets wind of my hunt and does an internet search and, what do you know, he completed my mission from the comfort of his own home.
Motorcycle Bob is in Connecticut, I am in New York City.
Irony.
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Yes, when I woke Brian the Dinosaur up to go on the fruitless mission to find some dumb quote that is posted on the Times Tower he initially said to me:
"Why don't you just look for it on the internet?"
Of course, I said no way, and something about the internet being the slayer of missions.
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Wade from Vagabond Journey.com
in Brooklyn, New York City- September 24, 2008
Travelogue -- Travel Photos
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The Dinosaur and I could not find the quote anywhere we looked, but Motorcycle Bob came to the rescue and did find what we were looking for:
"I want to always fight for progress and reform; never tolerate injustice or corruption; always fight demagogues of all parties; never belong to any party; always oppose privileged classes and public plunder; never lack sympathy with the poor; always remain devoted to the public welfare; never be satisfied with merely printing the news; always be drastically independent; never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty."
He found it on the internet.
I must sadly tell the Dinosaur that he had the right idea.
It is a sign of our times - and perhaps a sad state of affairs - when it is far easier to find information on the internet than it is at the grassroots source; when the virtual world is far more easier to use than the real one. I went to the place were this quote was written, I looked the Times Tower up and down, asked a dozen people, and could not find it. Whereas Motorcycle Bob gets wind of my hunt and does an internet search and, what do you know, he completed my mission from the comfort of his own home.
Motorcycle Bob is in Connecticut, I am in New York City.
Irony.
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Labels: new-york-city, usa
posted by Wade Vagabond Journey.com at
4:38 PM
5 Comments:
The mission is not complete then. Does the plaque actually exist?
Is that actual quote actually engraved on it? Isn't virtual existance, well, virtual at best without the substantive?
It's much more fun to do these searches in the real world, but when that fails, the mis-information-net is a good substitute to not completing the mission.
And it was from the comfort of my office chair, during a break, honest.
Not IN CT, I am from CT. Now in New Hampshire.
Bob L
So I take it that it was an HST book you were reading? I am 46. It always amazes me when I meet "kids" that are reading the same things that I read when I was young (and listening to the same music etc). Some of the stuff was already kinda old when I read etc it.
There is much wisdom to be found in these nostalgic items. Even though times have changed, the world really hasn't changed that much. Much of the writing of today seems to be partisan, with some sort of agenda. So much politics and pre-conceived ideas. But who knows, maybe in 10 or 20 years the stuff being printed now will seem good.
Bob L
DivaD said...
"The mission is not complete then. Does the plaque actually exist?"
True. Someone will have to track down the plaque or what happened to it. Now, who do we know in NYC that might want to do that?????
Bob L
I suppose I have to find out!
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