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Posted by brian at 08:48 PM
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The August issue of Wired asked a very interesting question. "Would Moby Dick be better if Melville used a word processor?" There were 3 answers from 3 "experts." For example, Lynne Truss (author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves) responded and mentioned ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 08:36 PM
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The August issue of Wired asked a very interesting question. "Would Moby Dick be better if Melville used a word processor?" There were 3 answers from 3 "experts." For example, Lynne Truss (author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves) responded and mentioned ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 08:36 PM
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I discovered Contrary Magazine about a month ago. I finally got a chance to check it out. It was pretty good, though not as "contrary" as I might have thought. I expected possibly more experimental work, or work that would be hard to place ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 02:38 PM
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I discovered Contrary Magazine about a month ago. I finally got a chance to check it out. It was pretty good, though not as "contrary" as I might have thought. I expected possibly more experimental work, or work that would be hard to place ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 02:38 PM
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'You can't sit around and wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.' Jack LondonPosted by brian at 02:20 PM
Posted to BibliotechnoI've so many links that I'm not bothering to check lately, and I'm adding to the list every day. So I've started using FURL to keep my clicking organized.
Posted by brian at 12:30 PM
Posted to BibliotechnoI'm taking a brief hiatus, but I will check in now and again and update the tracking poll.
Posted by Slidge at 05:02 AM
Posted to GoFYourselfI'm taking a brief hiatus, but I will check in now and again and update the tracking poll.
Posted by Slidge at 05:02 AM
Posted to GoFYourselfAugust 30, 2004Meanwhile, my life is really nice.We've been pool-sitting for my father-in-law while he and his wife are in Florida, shopping for a winter residence. We've spent every afternoon at the pool for the ...
Posted by Summer at 01:13 PM
Posted to SummertimeAs in, I need some salt (or some kind of seasoning) as it looks like I may have to eat my words. I have blogged in the past about Glimmer Train, and wasn't too kind. The first issue that arrived through my new subscription really disappointed me. ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 01:36 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAs in, I need some salt (or some kind of seasoning) as it looks like I may have to eat my words. I have blogged in the past about Glimmer Train, and wasn't too kind. The first issue that arrived through my new subscription really disappointed me. ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 01:36 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 28, 2004Anybody ever feeling like they're creating an environment that's a fire hazard? I'm looking at my reading pile as I type. Some of it, already read, and I am nowhere near figuring out what pile to delegate those magazines to. Several ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:25 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAnybody ever feeling like they're creating an environment that's a fire hazard? I'm looking at my reading pile as I type. Some of it, already read, and I am nowhere near figuring out what pile to delegate those magazines to. Several ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:25 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 27, 2004I guess I'm on all the literary mailing lists now, because I got a slick booklet/advertisement from The Gettysburg Review. Not only is it angling for a subscription, it's upping the ante by offering the first 100 people to respond a free t-shirt. ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:09 PM
Posted to LitBlitzI guess I'm on all the literary mailing lists now, because I got a slick booklet/advertisement from The Gettysburg Review. Not only is it angling for a subscription, it's upping the ante by offering the first 100 people to respond a free t-shirt. ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:09 PM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 26, 2004Bush has surpassed Kerry for the first time in this tracking poll.
Posted by Slidge at 09:15 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfBush has surpassed Kerry for the first time in this tracking poll.
Posted by Slidge at 09:15 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfI've just read the most awful news. Julia is living every mother's nightmare for the eighth ...
Posted by Summer at 08:59 PM
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More fallout from the Swift Boat attack ads.Posted by Slidge at 05:28 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfI just finished the summer 2004 issue of Kenyon Review. I blogged about it earlier, right when I purchased it, about how its preface contained word that it will have an online submission site available on its homepage in September. Which was cool, ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 05:15 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 25, 2004Kudos to Blog of a Bookslut for providing the link to this insightful article from Boston Globe online. It's a great article on the future of the "little" literary magazine. It was nice to read after my previous musings. I might argue that many of ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 07:43 PM
Posted to LitBlitzI've been wondering about literature taste. After having expressed a good deal of disappointment over a recent issue of Glimmer Train and then raving about several issues of Gargoyle, I am curious what other trends I might come up with as I continue ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 07:16 PM
Posted to LitBlitzThe negative attack ads are really having an effect on Kerry's vote totals. He barely holds the lead right now, 205 to 202. Bush is beginning to trend away from weaker support and into stronger support as well. Even discounting the SurveyUSA ...
Posted by Slidge at 07:03 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfThe negative attack ads are really having an effect on Kerry's vote totals. He barely holds the lead right now, 205 to 202. Bush is beginning to trend away from weaker support and into stronger support as well. Even discounting the SurveyUSA ...
Posted by Slidge at 07:03 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfI've had a few questions on how my tracking poll works. It's fairly simple - on almost a daily basis, some polling group (like Zogby, SurveyUSA or Quinnipiac Univ) releases a poll that they have done on a state. For instance, let's say Zogby has ...
Posted by Slidge at 06:58 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfI've had a few questions on how my tracking poll works. It's fairly simple - on almost a daily basis, some polling group (like Zogby, SurveyUSA or Quinnipiac Univ) releases a poll that they have done on a state. For instance, let's say Zogby has ...
Posted by Slidge at 06:58 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfRemember when I took Dorian to the doctor because I thought he had a plantar wart, but actually it was just a splinter? And I felt all stupid and overprotective for ...
Posted by Summer at 02:16 PM
Posted to SummertimeI just read The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides. He's the same author who wrote Middlesex, one of my favorite novels of the summer reading period. And, some people might recognize the name since it was made into a movie by Sofia Coppola. The ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 05:17 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 24, 2004Looks like the anti-Kerry attack ads have been effective.
Posted by Slidge at 04:28 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfLooks like the anti-Kerry attack ads have been effective. UPDATE: Yes, this does include SurveyUSA's poll of California (which has Kerry with a +3 lead). If this poll is indeed an outlier, than Kerry's total could actually be 55 EV higher ...
Posted by Slidge at 04:28 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfNow, I complained just weeks ago about how dead everything was from the submission angle. I hadn't heard a peep out of any of the markets I had sent to for so long. It was total summer doldrums. Now, I've gotten like, 3 rejections in a matter of ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 01:49 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 23, 2004I was wondering about Kerry's strategy of taking on the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth by pushing the idea that the Bush Campaign is directly linked to the organization. At first, I felt that this strategy would backfire. However, it appears that it ...
Posted by Slidge at 07:42 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfI was wondering about Kerry's strategy of taking on the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth by pushing the idea that the Bush Campaign is directly linked to the organization. At first, I felt that this strategy would backfire. However, it appears that it ...
Posted by Slidge at 07:42 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfVince is currently mildly annoyed with me over a purchase I made online. I bought these:Can you guess what it is? It's a drawer ...
Posted by Summer at 07:08 PM
Posted to SummertimeThe amazing burst of energy I had a week or so ago is gone. It couldn't have lasted, it was just too out of character. I did exactly ZERO cleaning this weekend, and I can't say I did a lot last week. I'm someone ...
Posted by Summer at 10:35 AM
Posted to SummertimeAugust 22, 2004The new issue of Poets and Writers also had an interesting article about writers' rituals. For example, Virginia Woolf wrote standing up. Robert Louis Stevenson got inspiration from dreams. (Which reminded me of comments from Jen -- of JMB -- ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 02:06 PM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 21, 2004All right, I can't complain too much about Poets & Writers, since they did send me my free copy before they sent a past-due notice. What's more, the current issue seemed a lot more interesting than in the past when I've been exposed to ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 05:32 PM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 20, 2004John Kerry's campaign today filed a complaint with the FEC, alleging that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth anti-Kerry ads are "illegally coordinated" with the Republicans and the Bush-Cheney campaign. A spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign ...
Posted by Slidge at 10:42 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfHow to create a language.
Posted by Alex at 10:32 PM
Posted to LastVisibleDogHow to create a language.
Posted by Alex at 10:32 PM
Posted to LastVisibleDogSome big news in the EV Tracking Poll. I have implemented the probability formulas suggested by Kevin Drum, so we now have a new category of EV tracks based on the statistical probability of either candidate winning the state. The other big news ...
Posted by Slidge at 08:10 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfNice to see the US has its priorities straight when it comes to the War on Terror: "A Hamas leader and two other suspected members of the Palestinian militant group were indicted on charges they participated in a lengthy racketeering conspiracy to ...
Posted by Slidge at 07:53 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfNice to see the US has its priorities straight when it comes to the War on Terror: "A Hamas leader and two other suspected members of the Palestinian militant group were indicted on charges they participated in a lengthy racketeering conspiracy to ...
Posted by Slidge at 07:53 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfI came across an interesting site today. Apparently, the challenge is on -- write a novel -- ANY novel (plot? who needs it!) -- during the month of November. The only rules are it needs to be from scratch and it needs to hit 50,000 words (which is ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 03:56 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 19, 2004The anti-Kerry crowd likes to say that Kerry had no "signature" legislation (ie, a law with his name on it), and therefore has a poor Senate record. David Sirota has written an excellent article about Kerry and BCCI, which lays the smack down on ...
Posted by Slidge at 10:32 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfI believe that we are seeing the downside of the Kerry bounce. While his vote numbers outside of the MoE has remained steady at 265, his internal numbers (which I call "confidence" numbers) are definitely moving away from the ">10%" category and ...
Posted by Slidge at 09:50 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfDonald Rumsfeld has been out of the public eye since the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, and my friend noticed today that Condi Rice has not been seen much since her stellar testimony before the 9/11 Commission. Prominent on the Sunday talk shows, however,...
Posted by Slidge at 09:45 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfMore tales from the last few days....Shock the MonkeyVince has finally managed to construct a functional computer for himself. As if that alone weren't ...
Posted by Summer at 10:15 AM
Posted to SummertimeAugust 18, 2004Some slight movement today, following the release of polls for Colorado, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Bush lost nine EV overall, giving Kerry a 265 to 167 lead. Kerry had some drift out of the >10% category into the 5-9% category, shifting 21 EV ...
Posted by Slidge at 09:15 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfYet another person prevented from entering a Bush/Cheney event because they support the other candidate. This is happening with alarming frequency. I thought America was a place where we could all be different, and at the same time, remain ...
Posted by Slidge at 06:44 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfJoe is having an interesting time with language lately. I was quite impressed when he came up with the word "eddie", which originally meant "cat", but now I think it means "mammals" in general. He seems to have decided that his language system ...
Posted by Alex at 04:45 PM
Posted to BabyJoeJoe is having an interesting time with language lately. I was quite impressed when he came up with the word "eddie", which originally meant "cat", but now I think it means "mammals" in general. He seems to have decided that his language system ...
Posted by Alex at 04:45 PM
Posted to BabyJoeAugust 17, 2004I haven't been posting as often as is my norm, so you might be wondering what else I could possibly be doing with my time. Recently, I've been spending my non-office, non-baby time doing one of three things:1....
Posted by Summer at 02:08 PM
Posted to SummertimeI finished another issue of Gargoyle -- that's no. 39/40, which some may know I've been pecking away at for a while now. It may only be published once per year, but it sure does offer a lot of bang for the buck, seeing how it's a thick tome full of ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:19 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 16, 2004A couple weeks ago Amazon said it's working hard to discourage anonymous reviews posted on their site. The upshot was, anonymous posting of reviews invites distrust and of course, there have been problems with authors complaining that people with ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 10:48 PM
Posted to LitBlitzResearch 2000's poll of North Carolina has put that state into a statistical tie, moving 15 EV from Bush to the "at-large" pool. Kerry now leads 265 to 161. This marks a 35 point drop for Bush in the last five days. Kerry has been at 265 EV for ...
Posted by Slidge at 10:00 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfAugust 15, 2004Speaking of novellas, I have two of those suckers I haven't marketed very stringently. I think I've sent each one out once. The novella form kind of seems like a literary dead zone. Short story -- sure, market it to lit magazines. Novel -- okay, ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 07:46 PM
Posted to LitBlitzSo, after all the summertime waiting I complained about recently, tonight I got a rejection from a magazine I am truly jonesing to get into. However, it wasn't your run-of-the-mill form rejection, nor the rejection that gives some personal reasons ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 06:43 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 14, 2004Good Teeth from Birth to Death, by Dr. Gerard Judd Every once in a while I run into a wacky way out idea that actually makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure what that says about me, but Dr....
Posted by Stephen at 03:26 AM
Posted to CoolReadingAugust 13, 2004ARG's poll for Ohio came out today, and the race is a statistical tie. Bush had been leading outside of the MoE in Ohio, so this takes Ohio's 20 EV out of his total and into the kitty, giving Kerry a 265 to 176 lead over Bush. Bush was last at 176 ...
Posted by Slidge at 04:33 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfI met my dad for dinner last night. It's the first time I've seen him alone in years -- usually I've been accompanied by Vince and, more recently, Dorian. My relationship with my father is a strange one, but at ...
Posted by Summer at 10:08 AM
Posted to SummertimeAugust 12, 2004The SBVT have made several claims about Kerry, including that he lied about his wounds he received to win his Purple Hearts, that he lied about enemy combat when he won his Bronze Star, that he lied about killing an innocent VC to win his Silver Star,...
Posted by Slidge at 06:06 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfAfter all the bitching I've done about McSweeney's, I've got to share a bit of Pooh fiction. Winnie, that is. This is totally hilarious. All that talk of Oz and now another childhood fictional figure shows up in the day-to-day workplace. Priceless. ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:23 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 11, 2004I am opening up the floor for comments for the next blog item that I am working on, which is an examination into the relationship between our current woeful state of the journalist profession, the rise of the SUV and the cellphone, and the OJ ...
Posted by Alex at 09:15 PM
Posted to LastVisibleDogCristin put Joe to sleep last night by laying him down in his crib, and he promptly fell asleep. This is a radical departure from the norm, because the usual standard operating procedure is to rock him gently to sleep while he wails over the ...
Posted by Alex at 09:13 PM
Posted to BabyJoeCristin put Joe to sleep last night by laying him down in his crib, and he promptly fell asleep. This is a radical departure from the norm, because the usual standard operating procedure is to rock him gently to sleep while he wails over the ...
Posted by Alex at 09:13 PM
Posted to BabyJoeTwo polls out today, for Oklahoma and Michigan. No change in the overall numbers, Kerry still leads Bush 265 to 196. There was a slight change as Kerry's numbers are slowly drifting away from the ">10%" column and into the "5-9%" column. The next ...
Posted by Slidge at 09:05 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfMy mother took Dorian overnight tonight, to make up for the fact that she's traveling on Friday and will miss her normal day with Dorian. Vince and I took advantage of our temporary childlessness and went out. We ...
Posted by Summer at 08:42 PM
Posted to SummertimeAugust 10, 2004Here are two charts that show some interesting trends. The first is the graph of Bush's approval ratings mapped over the raising of the terrorist threat levels. As can be seen, whenever Bush's ratings take a downward turn, the threat level gets ...
Posted by Slidge at 09:38 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfHawaii comes out with its first poll of the campaign season, which gives the state to Kerry, although by a smaller margin that Gore's victory in Hawaii had been. This leaves the grand total still at 265 to 196 in favor of Kerry, although he has ...
Posted by Slidge at 09:26 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfAll right, for the first time ever -- and that's ever -- I've clicked on a banner ad. Actually, it was one of the ads served up right on the top of my own blog, an ad served up by Google for Contrary magazine, apparently associated with the ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 03:50 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 09, 2004The GOP desperation grows. Now they have their own "documentary" which apparently details Kerry's "flip flop" on Iraq. Oddly enough, to me it shows that Kerry was mostly concerned about the lack of inspections in Iraq more than anything. And it ...
Posted by Slidge at 10:04 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfNo polls out today, so the EV count remains at 265-196 for Kerry. Oh, by the way, Bill O'Reilly is a lying sack of shit.
Posted by Slidge at 09:33 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfJoe's been cutting some teeth, and has been having a lot of trouble getting comfortable to go to sleep at night. We've been letting him play in his crib until he gets real sad, at which point we pick him up and rock him asleep. This will ...
Posted by Alex at 07:39 PM
Posted to BabyJoeJoe's been cutting some teeth, and has been having a lot of trouble getting comfortable to go to sleep at night. We've been letting him play in his crib until he gets real sad, at which point we pick him up and rock him asleep. This will ...
Posted by Alex at 07:39 PM
Posted to BabyJoeWow! My Baltimore Orioles have just swept their first seven game homestand since 1969 by beating the Texas Rangers, 7-3. The O's are now 4 games below .500, and believe it or not, are 8 games out of the Wild Card spot. Now, the O's have no chance ...
Posted by Alex at 07:35 PM
Posted to LastVisibleDogAugust 08, 2004My mother doesn't get it. She can't understand why I consider myself so lucky. She looks at me and doesn't see a lucky woman, doesn't see a woman constantly thanking God for her blessings. She thinks I'm unlucky....
Posted by Summer at 08:33 PM
Posted to SummertimeOver on the blog Bookslut it's been pointed out that Pamela Anderson has written a novel, called Star. (Well, rather, she has ghost written a novel.) Who knew? Pamela Anderson also writes a column for Jane magazine, which does give the impression ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 03:51 PM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 07, 2004Summer sucks, in the writing biz. Well, other things do too. I have a whole bunch of writing submitted and it's like it's all in the black hole, really. It occurred to me last night that I am really irate with McSweeney's. They've had one of my ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 03:08 PM
Posted to LitBlitzI looked up The New Yorker's guidelines on the Web, they do accept manuscripts by email. That's heartening. Not that I would represent it as a friendly market for brand-new writers, but at least they've moved past snail mail. Honestly, I don't ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 12:21 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 06, 2004I can't quite believe it myself, that I haven't posted an entry since Monday. That's not like me. Hopefully none of you worried that I had died on the toilet a la Elvis. ...
Posted by Summer at 10:34 PM
Posted to SummertimeThis graph shows the trend that Kerry's EV votes are ...
Posted by Slidge at 08:38 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfLast night, I read the best story -- again, in Gargoyle No. 39/40. It was Auden's Toothbrush, by Lucinda Ebersole. And it was GREAT -- it poked so much fun at the literary establishment, how could I resist? It was about a writer who, after one ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 03:02 AM
Posted to LitBlitzAugust 05, 2004As I suspected, the 7/26 FD Public Mind poll of New Jersey was most likely an outlier. That poll had made New Jersey a close race, with Kerry having a 2-point lead over Bush. Today, Quinnipiac released their New Jersey poll, giving Kerry a 49-36 ...
Posted by Slidge at 08:27 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfNo "bounce" for Kerry? Since the Convention ended, ...
Posted by Slidge at 05:13 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfJoe and I felt like laying down some chill ambient tracks this evening. This is the result of our evenings labor. Enjoy!
Posted by Alex at 03:25 AM
Posted to BabyJoeJoe and I felt like laying down some chill ambient tracks this evening. This is the result of our evenings labor. Enjoy!
Posted by Alex at 03:25 AM
Posted to BabyJoeAugust 04, 2004I wish I could say that I have started writing a new short story, or finished that issue of Gargoyle I'm looking at, or something of that nature. But I can't. In fact, I'm going to go to a friend's house and watch Bubba Hotep and eat pizza. I ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 10:39 PM
Posted to LitBlitzNo change from yesterday -- Kerry leads 250 to 196. Actually, a minor change -- Kerry moved 21 votes from the "5%-9%" column over to the ">10%" column, giving him a 174-131 lead in the >10% category. Discounting the MoE completely, the two ...
Posted by Slidge at 09:32 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfOver on LadyLitBlitz' blog they have been discussing the Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum. Baum, of course, is the author of the fourteen books of the Oz series. While some have conjectured that the Wizard of Oz actually champions the cause of ...
Posted by Alex at 07:36 PM
Posted to LastVisibleDogOver on LadyLitBlitz' blog they have been discussing the Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum. Baum, of course, is the author of the fourteen books of the Oz series. While some have conjectured that the Wizard of Oz actually champions the cause of ...
Posted by Alex at 07:36 PM
Posted to LastVisibleDogJoe hit another milestone yesterday, when he finally figured out how to crawl forward. He's had the concept of crawling down for awhile, but he had never managed to connect the series of motions needed to actually propel himself forward yet. He was ...
Posted by Alex at 07:16 PM
Posted to BabyJoeJoe hit another milestone yesterday, when he finally figured out how to crawl forward. He's had the concept of crawling down for awhile, but he had never managed to connect the series of motions needed to actually propel himself forward yet. He was ...
Posted by Alex at 07:16 PM
Posted to BabyJoeOriginally posted 8/3/2004 For your listening enjoyment, here is an original composition by my son Joe. I recorded Joe banging away on the keyboard in my studio and saved the data in a MIDI track. I then ran the MIDI track through an arpeggiator ...
Posted by Alex at 07:16 PM
Posted to BabyJoeOriginally posted 8/3/2004 For your listening enjoyment, here is an original composition by my son Joe. I recorded Joe banging away on the keyboard in my studio and saved the data in a MIDI track. I then ran the MIDI track through an arpeggiator ...
Posted by Alex at 07:16 PM
Posted to BabyJoeOriginally posted 8/2/2004 Wow, I managed to both update Joe's website and mow my lawn! I added two pages to the site - photos from Spring and a bunch of photos taken in June and July. I still need to update the page with the photos from the ...
Posted by Alex at 07:15 PM
Posted to BabyJoeOriginally posted 8/2/2004 Wow, I managed to both update Joe's website and mow my lawn! I added two pages to the site - photos from Spring and a bunch of photos taken in June and July. I still need to update the page with the photos from the ...
Posted by Alex at 07:15 PM
Posted to BabyJoeOriginally posted 7/30/04 Heh... I neither mowed my lawn or updated Joe's website. :) Instead, I went to Wegman's to get pool chemicals and got sidetracked on the way at Grandma's house (where I had some absolutely delicious tilapia). Upon my ...
Posted by Alex at 07:15 PM
Posted to BabyJoeOriginally posted 7/30/04 Heh... I neither mowed my lawn or updated Joe's website. :) Instead, I went to Wegman's to get pool chemicals and got sidetracked on the way at Grandma's house (where I had some absolutely delicious tilapia). Upon my ...
Posted by Alex at 07:15 PM
Posted to BabyJoeOriginally posted 7/29/04 Okay, I didn't get around to updating Joe's website. I'll do it tonight. Promise. I did mow my front yard, even though it had just rained, so now I have a mowed front yard with big wet cloppets of grass all over the ...
Posted by Alex at 07:14 PM
Posted to BabyJoeOriginally posted 7/29/04 Okay, I didn't get around to updating Joe's website. I'll do it tonight. Promise. I did mow my front yard, even though it had just rained, so now I have a mowed front yard with big wet cloppets of grass all over the ...
Posted by Alex at 07:14 PM
Posted to BabyJoeOriginally posted 7/28/2004 This is Joe on Easter morning. Why am I showing pictures from last Easter? Because I haven't updated his website in a while, and the last time I did update it was Eastertime. I have a bunch of new photos of ...
Posted by Alex at 07:13 PM
Posted to BabyJoeOriginally posted 7/28/2004 This is Joe on Easter morning. Why am I showing pictures from last Easter? Because I haven't updated his website in a while, and the last time I did update it was Eastertime. I have a bunch of new photos of ...
Posted by Alex at 07:13 PM
Posted to BabyJoeThis is Joe's new blog site. I will transfer the messags from his old blog over to here.
Posted by Alex at 07:01 PM
Posted to BabyJoeThis is Joe's new blog site. I will transfer the messags from his old blog over to here.
Posted by Alex at 07:01 PM
Posted to BabyJoeI've been thinking about the raising of the terror threat based upon the information found in Pakistan, and while I agree that the timing of it is suspicious, I think everyone is missing the major fundamental problem with our homeland security. The ...
Posted by Slidge at 06:35 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfAugust 03, 2004Today I'd like to suggest people check out the latest issue of The Paumanok Review, if they're looking for some good reading. It's an online-only literary journal, though I might add, it always strikes me as having professional quality (hey, you can ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 11:44 PM
Posted to LitBlitzRead him.
Posted by Slidge at 08:24 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfNo "bounce" for Kerry? Well, if you ignore that Kerry now leads Florida outside of the MoE (according to Zogby), yeah, there's no "bounce". Zogby released new battlefield state polls today, and in those polls outside of the MoE, Kerry leads 250 to ...
Posted by Slidge at 05:59 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfThere is a debate raging right now about whether the Bush Administration is using "terrorist threats" in order to intimidate the American voters into supporting President Bush over the challenger, John Kerry. In his press conference announcing that ...
Posted by Slidge at 04:40 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfAugust 02, 2004In polls outside of the MoE, Kerry still leads 238 to 176. This makes a -1 vote change overall for Kerry since 7/23, and a +9 increase since last Friday. Bush has lost -5 votes since 7/23, and has changed -20 votes since last Friday. Yet, ...
Posted by Slidge at 10:03 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfSince I still can't upload photos, I've had to resort to outright thievery to obtain a photo of my new haircut to share with you all. This photo was taken at the party for Baby Joe, and I stole it from the Baby Joe ...
Posted by Summer at 09:19 PM
Posted to SummertimeThe Democratic National convention is over, and John Kerry has won the party's nomination to run for President of the United States. In his acceptance speech, he layed out his positive vision of the direction America should be going in, and why he ...
Posted by Slidge at 07:25 PM
Posted to GoFYourselfI feel the need to come clean about something. I'm afraid that you might hate me, because frankly, if I didn't know the full story and I wasn't me, I'd hate me too. You see, I'm thin. Really thin, at the moment, ...
Posted by Summer at 10:12 AM
Posted to SummertimeAll right, so what's with all the fiction based on The Wizard of Oz these days? I had heard of the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire (it's one of those BAM selections I talked about earlier -- prime ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:23 AM
Posted to LitBlitzWhat a great weekend. I went on a mini road trip and was far away from the computer and this blog for a full 24 hours or so! Yeah!! Had a great time with friends and it was good to reboot a bit, catch up, grab some new music, and enjoy the company ...
