<![CDATA[Roving reporter Marijean reports:
Charlottesville Blog of the Week on CBS-19
Tonight on WCAV CBS-19, I’ll be talking about Elizabeth McCullough’s C’ville Words blog. You can tune in and watch it live, using that box in your living room, or watch it streaming online around 6:30pm Eastern.
THIS JUST IN: according to staff at the Newsplex, we [...]
<![CDATA[I wish all my "spam" was like this:
Friends, enemies, victims of the capitalism:
Forgive me this single spam I'm sending on behalf of some friends bent on surviving the media die-off by foregoing worldly things, and please consider taking a look at the resurrected Killing the Buddha, under new management with an all new design. Peter [...]
<![CDATA[Interesting comment over at Charlottesville Podcasting Network regarding the theater lecture I linked to earlier. The commenter is Charles J. Shields, the author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee:
Dr.Cohen is certainly right about the drop in audience attendance at live performances. But I wouldn’t lay blame at the feet of movies and the expectation [...]
I love when this happens. Cameron Beers of BA21 brings us up-to-date on an old post about the Piedmont Council of the Arts website:
Just wanted to follow-up with some of the comments here. My company is responsible for the new PCA site.
Calendar Subscriptions: check out right below the calendar box for “Helpful Calendar Tips”. [...]
Here I was, all set to read Jennifer Niesslein’s take on last Friday’s author appearance at WriterHouse, when suddenly things took a turn for the worst…
On Friday night, I went to see Jenny Block speak at Writer House, our brand spanking new organization here for writers. Block wrote Open, a memoir/polemic about marriage. She and [...]
I won some Orla Kiely paper products at CvilleStyle!
…I have been occasionally and inadvertently leaving in a lot of ugly code that WordPress so helpfully conceals from me during post composition. My apologies. I will try to do better.
If you ever doubt the value of litblogs, consider this: The last interview Thomas Disch gave can be found as a podcast at the Bat Segundo Show. Meanwhile, it’s been three days since his death and the New York Times apparently still doesn’t list an obituary for him.
Last week I had surgery. That kind of thing is never pleasant, but my friends and family have made the preparation and recovery a near pleasure. Flowers, chocolates, food, phone calls, emails, kind wishes, every kind of thoughfulness you can imagine, have all come my way. My gratitude also goes out to the nurses on [...]
From Booksquare:
As part of the extravaganza that was Book Expo America 2008, I overheard a few great myths — some of which had been uttered in my presence at least once before. I think it’s time to put a few of these to rest.
The myths:
You have to blog six times a day.
Blogs are omelettes.
It’s too [...]