Now using Bloo, v. 1.00.
BWB, Powered by Bloo
Now using Bloo, v. 1.00.
Category Archives: Blogs, Socials
Last transmission from a sinking ship
I thought after the siege of common cold I suffered through in December, I’d enjoy some kind of immunity for the rest of the winter. (I know that idea has no scientific basis, but I cling to my superstitions.) But I’ve got another one. I’m canceling a couple things I’d planned this weekend, and hope to hunker in the bunker until Monday.
By way of Grim’s Hall, here’s an interesting site: Strangemaps.
I’m not a map fanatic, but I think they’re cool. I learned a whole lot about the Old West years back, when I worked my way through most of Louis L’Amour’s works with a Rand McNally atlas at my elbow. The geography in L’Amour is solid, and you’d be surprised what geography explains as you study history.
Have a good weekend.
Refreshment in The Cruciform Life
My cousin has taken up church planting in northeast Tennessee, and I remember that I have not prayed for him and his team as I originally wanted to. Perhaps, you can pray with me. He is blogging at The Cruciform Life now (updated link). In one post, he writes about finding spiritual refreshment during, not after, a trial and draws beautiful pictures of water coming from the rock. I needed to read that today. I’m also looking forward to his posts on dashboard lights. Can’t say too much about those little lights.
DeMuth Blogs on Writing, Publishing
Author Mary DeMuth is now blogging at www.wannabepublished.blogspot.com. She introduces her new blog on The Master’s Artist. She says she “remembers what it’s like to be wide-eyed and naïve about publishing. She’s passionate about helping new writers, but since her writing and speaking schedule is filling up, she’s decided to funnel her help into a user-friendly blog.”
A Christmas Crime Story by Andrew Klavan
Andrew Klavan has a short story on his blog, which can be obtained in print by ordering from the Mysterious Bookshop in New York. It begins:
A certain portion of my misspent youth was misspent in the profession of journalism. I’m not proud of it, but a man has to make a living and there it is. And, in fact, I learned a great many things working as a reporter. Most importantly, I learned how to be painstakingly honest and lie at the same time. That’s how the news business works. It’s not that anyone goes around making up facts or anything – not on a regular basis anyway. No, most of the time, newspeople simply learn how to pick and choose which facts to tell, which will heighten your sense that their gormless opinions are reality or at least delay your discovery that everything they believe is provably false. If ever you see a man put his fingers in his ears and whistle Dixie to keep from hearing the truth, you may assume he’s a fool, but if he puts his fingers in your ears and starts whistling, then you know you are dealing with a journalist.
Jorn Barger on Blogging
On this date, December 17, 1997, Jorn Barger gave us the word “weblog,” spawning countless articles explaining what the word means for readers who could still live without computers. Imagine that. Wired.com has a short list of thoughts Jorn has on blogging now.
He writes, “A true weblog is a log of all the URLs you want to save or share. (So del.icio.us is actually better for blogging than blogger.com.)”
Sure it is. I’d much rather link out to someone’s work instead of creating something of my own. It’s easier and less fulfilling. Sigh. [via Books, Inq]
From Blog to Book
Editor and writer Anna Broadway has blogged herself into a book with Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity. I don’t think the blog is the book, but maybe it is.
The essays on Makoto Fujimura’s blog are to become a book as well. That should be good.
Giveaway: Paris Review Interview Collections
Maud Newton is giving away both volumes of the Paris Review writer interview today.
Cranach moves
Gene Edward Veith’s Cranach blog has moved out from the World Magazine umbrella, into its own domain, here.
Update your bookmarks.
Writing Contest for Elmore Leonard Book
Contest: The Rap Sheet will “give a copy of Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing to the person who can send us the cleverest Leonard-related five-line limerick.” See The Rap Sheet for details.