I’ll be at Blog World Expo 2007 WITH CAKE October 30, 2007
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Okay, without cake. But Metia is indeed sending me to Blog World Expo in Las Vegas.
Although now that I think about it, handing out cake at a conference would make my personal brand even stronger.
SoCal wildfires - Safe and Well List lets loved ones know you’re okay October 23, 2007
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Folks who’ve been affected by the Southern California wildfires but are safe can post their status at the Red Cross’s Safe and Well site.
From Ike Pigott’s blog:
Safe and Well is made up of two parts: a place for evacuees to register themselves, and a search enabled side for loved ones seeking information. There were a lot of internal conversations about privacy. For instance, what if Constance Frey wants her parents to know she’s okay, but doesn’t want her abusive estranged boyfriend to find her? Essentially, those searching will find nothing more than a simple note:
- I am safe and well.
- Family and I are safe and well.
- Currently at shelter.
- Currently at home.
- Currently at friend/family member/neighbor’s house.
- Currently at a hotel.
- Will make phone calls when able.
- Will email when able.
- Will mail letter/postcard when able.
To get even that much, they’ll need to know one of her pre-disaster contact numbers or her address.
Writiing For Pay #005 is up! October 14, 2007
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I interview Eric Franklin, who edits translations of French games for release in the United States.
Ask The Optimist! October 13, 2007
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Jazzed by The Sound of Young America’s interview with satirist George Saunders, I picked up The Braindead Megaphone from the library. Good stuff!
The day after I finished, Jesse Thorn produced an audio version of Saunders’ piece “Ask The Optimist”, featuring (among others) John Hodgman as Small Penis, Jonathan Coulton as Hurt But, and Maria Bamford as Not Altogether Hopeful.
“…that idea of art as redemption” October 5, 2007
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It was hard for me to let go of that idea of art as redemption; of the creative act as a sort validation for suffering and disillusionment. Poetry seemed to me much more than mere consolation. But this feeling, I’m chagrined to say as I stare down the age of forty, was inextricably bound up for me in personal ambition (or, at least, a sense of personal worth). Everyone wants to be useful, but I long wanted to be praised, admired and recognized for my usefulness. It seems to me now, however, that poetry is indeed a “normative instrument” only when your ambition burns brighter for the work than for yourself.
– Gregory Crosby
Angela’s artwork is showing in New York October 5, 2007
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If you’re in Manhattan on October 18th, do come to the opening reception!
(Click to see the announcement)
We won’t be there because we’re going to Hemet, California later this year, and that’s about all the fancy traveling and exotic locales that we’re up for.
