To my faithful readers

I apologize again for all the gross porn spam that’s been showing up lately. With all its advantages, WordPress.com has some major shortcomings, and spamability is one of them. In addition, my computer has been out of commission for a couple of days so I haven’t been able to keep up with the spam or [...]

The Official Trailer for The Wizard of Oz, Rawlesian Incarnation

Soft Skull News: The Officlal Trailer for The Wizard of Oz, Rawlesian Incarnation

links for 2008-10-18

Quit Facebook | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters "Whatever the label, I was unhappy and feeling empty. The amount of time I spent on Facebook had pushed me into an existential crisis. It wasn’t the time-wasting, per se, that bothered me. It was the nature of the obsession – namely self-obsession. Enough was enough. I left Facebook." [...]

Finalists Announced in First Amendment Writes Poetry and Songwriting Contest

Check out the finalists in the First Amendment Writes contest — I see some familiar names there. The first round of judging has been completed in the third annual First Amendment Writes—a poetry and songwriting competition celebrating the creative heights that can only be achieved when artists are free to explore any theme, subject or [...]

Winn Collier’s Holy Curiosity at New Dominion Bookshop

Reposted from Charlottesville Podcasting Network: Winn Collier read from his latest book, Holy Curiosity, on Thursday, October 16, 2008, at the New Dominion Bookshop in downtown Charlottesville. In this, Collier’s third book, he wrestles with the intriguing, disturbing questions asked by Jesus in the Gospels. Collier read from Holy Curiosity and took questions from the [...]

Photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson on the war abroad and at home

From Charlottesville Podcasting Network: Award-winning photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson showed images from his coverage of the Iraq War and described the war’s toll on the homefront to a meeting of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society on October 10, 2008. This presentation was jointly sponsored by the Jefferson Society and the Virginia Quarterly Review to mark [...]

It’s better to burn slowly than blaze away

I’m agreeing with GalleyCat — this New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell is “one of the best pieces about the realities of the writer’s life.”  Meaning, it’s one of the few I’ve read that didn’t leave me with a knot in the pit of my stomach. If you’re a writer of a … certain age [...]

links for 2008-10-17

Mygazines Folds – emedia and Technology @ FolioMag.com "Lawyers representing a large swath of consumer and b-to-b publishers—including Time Inc., Hearst, Hachette, McGraw-Hill, American Media Inc., Reed Business Information, Bonnier, Ziff Davis and Forbes, among others—had sued Mygazines.com, which lists its address as a post office box on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, and its [...]

But what about the ladies?

Amy Mercer at The Writer Mama calls attention today to an article from Bitch Magazine that calls for women to own their ambition for their writing careers, to stop apologizing for their writing or for being writers, and to stop accepting dismissive excuses for being overlooked. The author of the article, Anna Clark, cites an [...]

WriterHouse on WVTF

Whoo! We were on the radio! WriterHouse offers solace for Virginia writers – 10.14.08 Virginia has been home to many famous authors from Edgar Alan Poe, Willa Cather, and Booker T. Washington, to John Dos Passos, William Styron, Tom Wolfe, and John Grisham. Now some Charlottesville women have opened a place where the next generation [...]

links for 2008-10-16

October 16, 2008, 7:45 a.m. – The Guilfoile-Warner Papers – The Morning News '“Joe the Plumber” was mentioned more than a dozen times in the debate as McCain tried to use a real life example of middle class struggle to show why the Obama tax plan would be bad for the economy and bad for [...]

UVa Art Museum – Writer’s Eye Competition Open

Writer’s Eye 2008 The Writer’s Eye competition invites youth in grades 3–12, University students, and adults to submit original prose and poetry compositions inspired by particular works on view in the Museum. This year a major focus of the program will be the special exhibition El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios. Area teachers and writers judge all [...]

links for 2008-10-15

Great story coming up on UVA Today 'Great story coming up on UVA Today about a new book, “What Should I Read Next?” that compiles reading recommendations from 70 different U.Va. professors.' Novelist Christopher Buckley Resigns After Blog Post – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat "A Daily Beast post just cost a political novelist his column at the [...]

links for 2008-10-14

Print and fold your own Edgar Allen Poe | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times "Edgar Allen Poe: master of mystery and suspense and short stories. A little gloomy and creepy. And now — for free! — you can have a folded paper version of the author, just in time for Halloween. Actually, you could [...]

links for 2008-10-13

PrintWhatYouLike.com {beta}: Save money and the environment printing only what you like. # Format any web page for printing in seconds – no more pasting into Word # Save money and the environment by reducing your paper and ink usage # Make printed web pages more readable by removing ads, widgets and other distractions # [...]

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