Story and Blog during same day!
-- Breaking News --
Omar Jamil, a San Francisco-based journalist-come-weblogger, wrote a news story for Red Herring Magazine and made an entry into his weblog, ChasingTails all during the same afternoon.
"This represents a new level of productivity for Omar," a coworker commented, "I haven't seen him this busy since Versache had a sale."
The news article focused on the Second IPO of buy.com, as OmarWatch had previously reported. Though compitently reported and written, one must wonder if IPO, or Initial Public Offering, is the correct term to apply to a company that has sold shares of its stock before.
More importantly, Mr. Jamil found time in his busy schedule to make an entry into his now-famous weblog. Recent comments from Mr. Jamil's relatives demanding "more sex please," have forced the author to decide the future of ChasingTails. In "for whom the blog rolls," an introspective Mr. Jamil considers: "Do I add on the sex and violence...or pull back in a virtual coitus interuptus...?"
Although reports indicate Mr. Jamil is not one to leave the church before singing, the contemplative nature of his most recent post points toward the heart of what makes Omar Jamil's musings worth reading. He vacilates between decadent self-indulgence and an almost zen-like ambivalence toward his surroundings. As ChasingTails fans already know, there is a Tao of Omar, a way of being untroubled by outside pressures, untrammled by adult responsibility. His subtle tightrope walk between poetic musing on Tasha Amaral, his 22-year-old girlfriend, and his sense of vague responsibility to write about "...a world that is increasingly stricken with strife."
In many ways, Mr. Jamil's life mirrors that of journalist Russel Baker, author of Growing Up. In Growing Up Mr. Baker, a long time reporter for The Baltimore Sun, is constantly nagged by his mother to "make something of himself." One feels that Mr. Jamil may have experienced similar pressure, only without having done what Mr. Baker did: grown up.
Understanding Omar Jamil has, for some, become a calling. As a spouce of one of Mr. Jamil's coworkers noted to her husband: "How come this guy goes out and has fun and you have to work all the time?" One can find many contradictions, convolutions, and incongruity's in trying to understand Mr. Jamil. Walking the Way of the Omar is not an easy path.
Share your thoughts, frustrations, and insights with the editors of OmarWatch. We're all in this together.
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Omar Jamil, a San Francisco-based journalist-come-weblogger, wrote a news story for Red Herring Magazine and made an entry into his weblog, ChasingTails all during the same afternoon.
"This represents a new level of productivity for Omar," a coworker commented, "I haven't seen him this busy since Versache had a sale."
The news article focused on the Second IPO of buy.com, as OmarWatch had previously reported. Though compitently reported and written, one must wonder if IPO, or Initial Public Offering, is the correct term to apply to a company that has sold shares of its stock before.
More importantly, Mr. Jamil found time in his busy schedule to make an entry into his now-famous weblog. Recent comments from Mr. Jamil's relatives demanding "more sex please," have forced the author to decide the future of ChasingTails. In "for whom the blog rolls," an introspective Mr. Jamil considers: "Do I add on the sex and violence...or pull back in a virtual coitus interuptus...?"
Although reports indicate Mr. Jamil is not one to leave the church before singing, the contemplative nature of his most recent post points toward the heart of what makes Omar Jamil's musings worth reading. He vacilates between decadent self-indulgence and an almost zen-like ambivalence toward his surroundings. As ChasingTails fans already know, there is a Tao of Omar, a way of being untroubled by outside pressures, untrammled by adult responsibility. His subtle tightrope walk between poetic musing on Tasha Amaral, his 22-year-old girlfriend, and his sense of vague responsibility to write about "...a world that is increasingly stricken with strife."
In many ways, Mr. Jamil's life mirrors that of journalist Russel Baker, author of Growing Up. In Growing Up Mr. Baker, a long time reporter for The Baltimore Sun, is constantly nagged by his mother to "make something of himself." One feels that Mr. Jamil may have experienced similar pressure, only without having done what Mr. Baker did: grown up.
Understanding Omar Jamil has, for some, become a calling. As a spouce of one of Mr. Jamil's coworkers noted to her husband: "How come this guy goes out and has fun and you have to work all the time?" One can find many contradictions, convolutions, and incongruity's in trying to understand Mr. Jamil. Walking the Way of the Omar is not an easy path.
Share your thoughts, frustrations, and insights with the editors of OmarWatch. We're all in this together.
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posted by OmarWatch at 1/25/2005 07:23:00 PM
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