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Now Jen's first book, At Your Service, was published just last year, though she has several others under contract and coming out soon. What she brings to the table when it comes to marketing is that she is the former New England Head of Publicity and Promotions for 20th Century Fox and Miramax Films and has sixteen years of experience teaching film marketing at Boston University.
This was a very good program. I try not to go into too much detail regarding events like this, because the content is the presenter's. But I feel comfortable discussing workload and blogging.
You cannot exaggerate how hard many children's and YA authors are working at promoting, the time they are spending going to events, planning presentations, traveling, contacting people, all on their own dime. They may hold jobs of one kind or another and have families. It is just huge. And then they need to be writing their next books.
Sigh. I happened to be reading Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki today. Suzuki says, "The driver knows how much load the ox can carry, and he keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much!" It seemed appropriate.
The feeling among the people in attendance yesterday was that blogging is a bit yesterday as far as "Authors must blog!" is concerned. Some authors in that room were vocal about disliking blogging. What does that mean for long-time writer/bloggers like myself?
I'm thinkin' good news.
The Internet began to buckle under the weight of all the blogs that were created by writers from, say, 2006/7 to date. The pool of blog readers couldn't absorb them all, so many of us saw our readership drop and drop. If writers no longer feel compelled to blog, that could mean more readers for the rest of us.
That's what I'm hoping, anyway.
The caption under the picture of Jen Malone? The capacity to caption appeared out of the blue. Computer Guy is mystified.
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Last year's social media sabbatical was really pleasant and rewarding, though, and I'm thinking about doing another, longer one, at the end of this year. Which will probably mean I'll return to blogging again then.
I'm writing this from a hotel in Dublin, where I was today receiving the James Joyce Award. Now off to the UK, where I'll be delivering the Douglas Adams memorial lecture, as a benefit for Save the Rhinos. (Almost all tickets are gone. A few VIP tickets are up on ebay.) The Lecture is called Immortality and Douglas Adams. I know that. Now I just have to write it.
A new book is out: it's called Trigger Warning: Short Stories and Disturbances.
I learned when Smoke and Mirrors came out what people say in reviews of short story collections, and learned it again when Fragile Things came out, a decade later. The reviews say "A good collection of stories, let down by (the weak stories) and redeemed by (the strong stories)" But nobody ever seems to agree on what the weak and the strong stories are, so I never feel I have learned very much from the reviews, but am always happy that people found stories that they did like in there.
So that's what most of the reviews say.
Then there's Frank Cottrell Boyce writing in the New Statesman, about Trigger Warning, short stories, what they are and how we read them, and it's an essay I'd love even if I weren't in there:
It is interesting that Saint Columba makes an appearance. Columba began his exile on Iona in penance for his part in the 6th-century Battle of the Book, a conflict that had its origin in his secret copying of Saint Finnian's psalter: a kind of medieval illegal download. The subsequent ruling – "To every cow its calf, to every book its copy" – marks an important moment in the history of books. Were they beautiful, magical objects, to be carried into battle as charms (as the psalter was)? Or were they a means to disseminate information? Should their magic stay locked inside or should it be shared? Trigger Warning seems to grow out of a similar rift – the alternating currents of struggle and synergy that flow between the page and the electronic media.
I'm pleased that most readers seem to enjoy most of Trigger Warning, especially pleased and relieved that "Black Dog", the second of the American Gods stories of Shadow in the UK, seems to be well-received. I'm nervously caracoling towards the next novel, and suspect I'll start it in a few months, when the current giant jobs are done...
Amanda and I went to Sarasota to see my 97 year old cousin Helen, and seeing we were there and it was Valentine's Day, we did an event at the beautiful historic Tampa Theatre. This, at the end of a VERY long evening, is me singing "I Google You".
And the beautiful P. Craig Russell limited edition print we did for it is up for sale at Neverwear:
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In honor of my 100th blog post, I want to share 100 things I wouldn't know if I'd never become a children's writer.
- Follow submission guidelines like you are assembling a nuclear warhead. No fudging.
- Trends are to be watched, not followed.
- Focus on what you're doing well. Do more of that.
- A synopsis is as much for your benefit as it is the editor's.
- Writing is reductive. Writing should be like a sale at the GAP–it should always be 20% off. (Mo Willems)
- Waiting for opportunities is fiddle faddle. Create them.
- Don't ask too much of a first chapter. It's an invitation to the reader and an opportunity to assure her you can be trusted. (Andrew Karre)
- Query letters are the most important and least read letter you'll ever write.
- Show a character's feelings through reactions.
- Just about everybody struggles with jealousy. I am jealous of those who don't.
- Picture books are an art form unto themselves.
- Query letters need to sound like your real voice, not a superficial marketing pitch.
- Joining a critique group can be a game changer.
- Having a social media presence is important, but don't let it infringe on your writing time.
- Always send thank you notes.
- Scene = Time + Place + One Change (Candace Fleming)
- Having beautiful file folders makes revision more funner. More fun, that is.
- Do not bother with Goodreads.
- Use index cards to map out scenes in a novel.
- For novels, ask–what is the job of this chapter?
- Facebook can really mess with your head.
- Follow-up with queries and submissions. You did the sending after all.
- Keep in touch with the editors, agents and participants you meet at conferences.
- Small workshops are often more worthwhile than big conferences.
- Back up your files and back up your back up files.
- Write what you know.
- Write what you wish you knew.
- Look for the seeds to resolving your story's conflict within the story itself.
- Characters have been alive a long time before they introduced themselves to you.
- Writing costs money, time and energy. It's worth it.
- If you feel stuck in your genre of choice, shake things up by writing in a different one.
- Everybody wants to quit at some point.
- Giving back doubles the investment you've made in your own writing.
- The journey to publication is not a race.
- Take thank you notes with you to conferences so you can thank people right away.
- Identifying (and eradicating) your crutch words can help to tighten your writing. Find/replace is your friend.
- Print out your entire novel in 8 pt. font, highlight the "solid" parts, then spread it out to see where the plot sags. (Thanks, Darcy Pattison)
- One carry-on bag is really all you need.
- Characters must undergo an inner and outer journey.
- Resist the urge to hide during conferences.
- Talk about your dreams and ambitions.
- Having a blog is fun work.
- You don't have to start a novel with a big bang. Let the reader get to know the character before the inciting incident.
- Flying solo isn't heroic. It's nonsense.
- In a query letter, use quotes from the book to show character. (Christy Ottaviano)
- Your first idea is not unique. Twist it.
- Accept critiques with grace.
- Give critiques with humility.
- An editor's job is to help clarify what your book is about.
- When you read, read like a writer.
- Give the same amount of care to world building/setting as you do to creating characters.
- A good cup of tea can fix a lot of things.
- Progress is the difference between finding time to write and making time to write.
- We write to re-write. And then to re-write what we re-wrote.
- Editors and agents are people too.
- Writing is an act of revelation. (Cynthia Leitich Smith)
- Use Find & Replace to weed out those just so very, very, very useless words.
- Your family may never grasp that staring off in space in part of the writing process.
- Writing will drive you to do otherwise loathsome tasks like cleaning the refrigerator (at your neighbor's house because you've already cleaned yours. Oh, and organized your sock drawer. Twice.)
- Writing makes every life experience—from fixing a flat to flying in a helicopter–fodder for future writing.
- Disappointment is standard issue.
- You can always quit. No one is forcing you to write.
- Reading at open mic is a hoot. (I mean this.)
- Figure out a way to remember names (for when you go to conferences). You're a word person. You can do this.
- There are two kinds of non-writing people—those who are in awe of you and those who think anyone can be a writer, especially for children. Don't worry about either kind.
- Pretend to be confident. You may be a shy person, but that's no one's business but your own.
- Rejection sucks.
- There are three effective ways to make rejection suck less. I don't know what those ways are.
- Readers bond with characters when we ask them to stretch. (Cynthia Leitich Smith)
- When you get stuck, stop. Move on to something new or take a nap. Let your mind wrestle with the knots a while before you go back.
- Writing is like wood carving. You go from larger to smaller, so don't focus on details first.
- Most parents only get to name two, three, maybe four or so people. Writers get to name lots of people. Cool.
- Characters may push you. Let them.
- Grammar matters. At least know the rules before you snap them.
- Be respectful to everyone, even (and especially) on social media.
- Stories must balance between the specific and the universal.
- It's important not to have a sense of preciousness with your work. (Shaun Tan)
- In writing, the author is the third wheel. You're in the way. No one wants you there. You need to be invisible. (Mo Willems)
- Laughing at your own writing is a great feeling, so long as you were intending to be funny.
- A main character's problem must feel organic to the story.Writers cannot emotionally protect themselves. (Coe Booth)
- It's important to love my secondary characters as much as my main characters.
- Reinvention is the dark chocolate in the writer's life. (Jane Yolen)
- Secondary characters can't just exist to serve the main character's story.
- Don't let details overwhelm or derail a story.
- Before you begin drafting a novel, create character sketches by interviewing each character.
- Stay out of a character's head as long as possible. (Andrew Karre)
- Invest in your friendships with other writers. It will always, always be worth it.
- Pay attention to what kids do, enjoy and worry about now. Some things never change, but not everything.
- No one wears a T-shirt with their favorite plot on it. Readers fall in love with characters.
- A writer's validation has to come from what her work means to a reader and not from reviews or awards. (Ed Spicer)
- Reliable WiFi and a laptop with a light up keyboard are splendid things.
- Create a room in your own in your home (or at least a zone) that's for writing only.
- The feel of book pitch needs to match the tone of the story.
- Something as ordinary as weather can be used to impact the mood of a story. [Cue the thunder-clap.]
- To learn about my characters, I need to ask where am "I" in my writing. (Coe Booth)
- You can write an entire novel without once using a semi-colon.
- Ultimately, the purpose of storytelling is to remind us of something ordinary or familiar. (Shaun Tan)
- Generally speaking, chocolate will not fill plot holes. But it can't hurt to try.
- Brilliance strikes two seconds after you hit send on a submission.
- Everything takes longer than you think it will. Even reading lists.
The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis. ~ Umberto Eco
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The Harvard Business Review (HBR) has an interesting article on blogging without getting the results you want. Without any one bother to read what you write. It explains that while there are tons of articles focused on how to write a quality article, there's not much on distribution strategies. The article lists seven tips on creating and implementing a 'smart' distribution plan. The first
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I have a few Slideshare presentations under my belt now. Slideshare is a great way to create a 'video' without the 'video necessary' tech stuff. The way I create a Slideshare presentation is to first create a PowerPoint presentation. Once that's complete, I simply upload it to Slideshare. It's so easy and quick. My newest presentation is on creating and publishing a WordPress blog post. Since
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Thinking of starting a blog in 2015 to build your writer platform and gain a readership for your work? All the best journeys start with a bit of planning. Even if you're not one for planning and would rather dive in right away, bear with me! In this exclusive excerpt from Blogging for Writers, Robin Houghton asks six crucial questions about your blogging goals, audience, and plan. Be honest with the answers as you write them down—they'll serve as good reminders and motivators later on. When you're finished, you'll have the beginnings of a blogging roadmap that will assist you throughout 2015 and beyond.
1. Why do you want a blog?
What appeals to you about blogging? Is it something you can see yourself getting into, enjoying, and looking forward to doing? What do you want to get out of it? Promotion? Community? Sales?
It's important to have goals for your blog, and those goals should be linked to your goals as a writer. All the same, the more open you are to seeing the fun in blogging, the more likely you are to stick with it and have it work for you.
2. Who do you want to read it?
An interesting question, and linked closely to your blogging goals. It's no good saying, "I want the whole world to read it!" Of course there are ways to go viral or hijack an audience, but the most successful bloggers are in it for the long term and are interested in becoming notable rather than notorious.
So, who is your audience? Your readers and fans (actual or potential)? Your peers? Industry influencers? Prospective publishers, agents, editors, gatekeepers? Perhaps, if you write for children, it's the parents of your readers. Perhaps you write for two different markets with very different readers. The reason for this question is to get you thinking about what your blog will be about, what it will look like, the tone of voice you will adopt, and so on.
3. What are you prepared to put into it?
Sorry to sound harsh, but the vast majority of blogs are abandoned within the first year. Don't let that be yours! You can blog for free, but there will be costs associated with it—some financial, but mostly in terms of your time and effort.
Do your research—check out other writers' blogs, especially (but not exclusively) those in your genre or niche. Look at the top industry blogs and websites—the annual Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers is a great place to start. Not only will you draw inspiration from them, but by subscribing to other blogs you're starting the process of connecting with the blogosphere. It's never too soon to start commenting, sharing, and engaging with other bloggers. When your blog is up and running, it's just as important to keep engaging with others as well as nurturing your own blog community.
4. What's your blogging persona?
A blog is unmediated—it's you talking directly to people—so it's worth thinking about your "persona," or the face you present to your blog readers and anyone else who may come across your blog. Here are some considerations:
- Professional vs. Personal: Let's say you are approaching blogging primarily as a business tool—for example, your goals might be to network with influential industry people, demonstrate your authority/ability/talent, or promote yourself to an audience of readers or potential readers. In this situation, you are presenting yourself and your work as a brand, and your blog will reflect that, both in how it looks and in the nature of its content. But this is a blog, not your author publicity page. Take advantage of that and inject your personality into it, too.
- Transparency and Consistency: Will you talk about both your successes and your failures? Not everyone wants to lay themselves bare by mentioning rejections, spats, loss of motivation, or other negative aspects of their writing life. Others revel in it and find visitor numbers and comments increase when their blog posts are at their most raw and honest.
5. What will you name your blog?
What will your blog be called? An obvious choice might be your name, writer name, or something that incorporates your name, such as "Seth's Blog" or "Neil Gaiman's Journal."
You might prefer your blog's name to say something about the content, or its purpose, so that it's separate from your name. This could work well if it's not your only blog, or if you've already got a website with your name associated with it and the blog is in addition to that, or if you are planning to have regular guest bloggers or contributors.
Your blog's given name or title doesn't necessarily have to be its domain name (the address that appears in the browser bar). You may choose to register your writer name as your domain name, then call your blog something different. As a rule, you should try to register both your writer name and your blog name (if different) as domain names, even if you're not sure you will use them right away.
6. What blogging platform will you use?
A blog platform refers to the software that powers a blog. You could think of it as the underlying construction, like a house—is it timber-framed or brick-built? Once the house is built, you may not be able to tell. Most blog platforms do pretty much the same job. But it's worth understanding the key differences—the choices you make at this stage will affect what you can do with your blog further down the line, so it's worth taking the time.
The most popular blogging platforms are WordPress and Blogger, and Blogging for Writers goes into both of these in depth. Do your research and make a decision based on your needs, comfort level, and personal preferences.
Blogging for Writers by Robin Houghton is available here.
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Last April, we asked you to help us out with ideas for the Oral History Review's blog. We got some great responses, and now we're back to beg for more! We want to use our social media platforms to encourage discussion within the broad community oral historians, from professional historians to hobbyists. Part of encouraging that discussion is asking you all to contribute your thoughts and experiences.
Whether you have a follow up to your presentation at the Oral History Association Annual Meeting, a new project you want to share, an essay on your experiences doing oral history, or something completely different, we'd love to hear from you.
We are currently looking for posts between 500-800 words or 15-20 minutes of audio or video. These are rough guidelines, however, so we are open to negotiation in terms of media and format. We should also stress that while we welcome posts that showcase a particular project, we can't serve as landing page for anyone's kickstarter.
Please direct any questions, pitches or submissions to the social media coordinator, Andrew Shaffer, at ohreview[at]gmail[dot]com. You can also message us on Twitter (@oralhistreview) or Facebook.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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From early on in my writing career I have read about the importance of building one's platform through various methods with blogging being an essential part of those efforts. The central focus of my blog is the children's publishing world, whether it be about my journey or that of my colleagues.
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I am in awe of fellow bloggers who achieve high comment numbers and often wonder how they do it.
I know one of the key parts is commenting on other blogs, which I need to get back into the groove of doing. As of late, I've been focusing more on my W-I-P than surfing blogs and commenting. It's definitely a balance I'm striving for, but without finishing my W-I-P what's the point of blogging in the first place?
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Last weekend my friend Lori was in town and we took the dogs for a walk in the schoolyard across the street. Three tween girls were hanging out on the jungle gym and as we passed they started whispering ostentatiously in our direction and laughing meanly. 'Girls that age" said Lori, a middle-school math teacher in the Bronx, "are the worst."
That encounter stayed with me as I started exploring the saga of YA author Kathleen Hale and the Goodreads troll, which Hale described at great, great length in the Guardian. What did the editors think to let her go on for 5000 words? Perhaps they are part of the great catfishing* conspiracy erected to oppress Ms. Hale, because while you begin the essay thinking "poor her," as Hale unravels you start to smile nervously and look for an exit. It's far away.
Then I went to a blog that Hale cited as an ally in her fight against the Dark, Stop the GR [Goodreads] Bullies, which I thought would be, I don't know, some kind of manifesto about maintaining decency in book discussion. Instead I soon felt like Jennifer Connelly discovering Russell Crowe's crazypants chalkboard diagrams as pages of scans and proofs and links and trolls and catfish whirled about each other with manic glee. Here, as in Hale's confessional, I saw no victims, just bullies on all sides.
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*as Liz Burns points out, that word does not mean what Hale thinks it does.
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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee suffered a stroke when she was 33, and she has written about her experience in an inspiring personal essay for BuzzFeed.
Before that, she was using a pseudonym on WordPress.com to blog about her experiences, share details about her life, and practice her writing. In 2007, shortly after New Year's Day, Lee wrote the following in a blog post:
something in my brain burped. most of what i want to do is just out of my grasp. i feel like i know how to do them, but then when i go to do them, i just…CAN'T. day by day, i'm regaining my abilities, so i hope this is just temporary.
Lee's commenters urged her to see a doctor, and the next day, she responded to them from a hospital bed: "I had a stroke! Will be better."
I spoke with Lee about her experience, and what she has learned about herself and her writing.
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It's amazing that you could go through something so profound health-wise and chart a new path for yourself coming out of it. What's the response been to your essay?
I've been blown away. As life-changing as my stroke was, the response, too, will probably go down in my life history as a turning point.
I had a blog — and I've been blogging since before it was called "blogging," back when it was called "web journaling," back in the days when Justin Hall was on links.net and when I wrote my posts in HTML. But before I spun up my anonymous blog, I was asked to stop blogging by a few family members. I was putting them at risk, they said, I was not to make myself so public.
Bottom line, I didn't want to stop blogging, so I started up a blog under a pseudonym. I never told them about the blog. A few months later, I had my stroke.
The blog was one of the first places to which I turned when I had my stroke, before I knew I'd had a stroke. I wrote in my journal, too — but I turned to my blog in the wake of my stroke, which for me was a largely isolating event. I made some great friends. Got support that way. It was my village, for a time.
Also, my blog has always been a place to do some "low-stakes writing" — writing without the intention of publication, writing that is more therapeutic. That said, blogging has always been a venue for me to refine my writing voice — because after all, it is still a public space with readers.
What are the odds that a person could suffer a stroke at 33?
According to the New York Times, about 10 to 15 percent of strokes happen to people under the age of 45. That's supposed to be about 1 in 1,000. And oftentimes, young people who have had a stroke are misdiagnosed and sent home.
I was the youngest person in the DCU (aka "stroke unit") in the hospital by about 30 years during my stay. Most doctors were astonished by my age. They certainly didn't suspect I'd had a stroke until they saw the MRI and its uncontested results. I could see how I could have been sent home and had to shoulder a mysterious ailment. I was lucky in that they figured it out and I got the care I needed to ensure the recovery I eventually had.
Can you talk about some specific posts that led you on a path both during and after your stroke?
Definitely, the post during which readers told me to go to the hospital!
I'm not sure where I found my voice after the stroke, really. I think there were people out in the internet reading — Carolyn Kellogg, who writes for the LA Times, had a blog called Pinky's Paperhaus at the time, and she linked to me as a writer recovering from stroke. So there was definitely interest in my story and situation.
I really don't think I found my voice regarding my stroke until years later. I wasn't able to write about it until my post for Nova Ren Suma, who did a Turning Point series on her blog, to which I contributed with a reference to my stroke.
Not only has blogging my stroke experience refined my voice, it was also life-saving. And anonymity provided sanctuary.
What is your life like now?
It is as normal as I imagine it to be. It's, honestly, better than my life pre-stroke. I'm following my dreams and choosing very carefully what it is I want to do each day, each month, each year. While in recovery, I had very limited energy, and had to be particular about my priorities; I decided to keep doing that, go forward.
And what about your writing?
Once you go through something like that, when so many of your abilities are taken away, your life is pared down to what it is you really want to get back.
I went through a very dark place at some point in my recovery — and although I don't look upon that phase with fondness, I did learn what was most important to me, and what it is I most desired out of my life. And my writing became a front-and-center goal. I'd always known writing was important to me, but after the stroke, I knew I would channel everything I had to get back to writing.
Now that I'm writing again, I've more a sense of structure with regard to my writing projects; in fact, I'm obsessed with structure, because recovery is so much about stages and regaining structure. Because my brain was injured, I understood how writing happens, in my brain at least — that stories are modular, that I need quiet, that layers come with each retelling.
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I've been blogging for twelve years. As far as I'm concerned, there is no question as to whether or not I'm going to blog. I do have doubts as to whether new writers should start blogging now, though.
When I started, I found six children's literature blogs on-line. Now, between review sites and children's/YA authors, I'm guessing there are thousands. Just look at the litbloggers who have registered with Kidlitosphere Central. And the writer bloggers who have registered with it. Oh, and here are some more bloggers with Kidlitosphere Central. And how many children's lit blogs of all kinds are out there who haven't heard of Kidlitosphere Central? Yet we're all competing with one another for readers.
The number of blogs has escalated. The number of readers, not so much. Many blogs that have been around a while have seen a decrease in activity. Blogging is like publishing. You hear about bloggers with readership that skyrocketed in just a few months. But then there are all the others.
Kirsten Cappy of Curious City, which does "theme-based marketing for children's authors, illustrators, and publishers," is well-known in New England, if not the country. She is definitely a fan of blogging for writers. In her blog post, SCBWI Whisper Pines, she answers questions from participants in last winter's Whispering Pines Retreat. Over and over again, she says things like, "Gosh, my answer is always to blog" and "I hate to sound like a broken record, but I guess if you have very limited time and have to focus on one thing, it would be blogging deeper."
Actually, she's kind of encouraging, making points that a blog post has the potential of reaching more people than a public appearance and is out there waiting for people to find it while an appearance is done and over. I don't know how often that happens, but right this minute I'm kind of pumped up.
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- Look for overused tropes like an older magical negro or a noble savage.
- Notice a smart/good peer of color whose only role is to serve as a foil for a flawed hero.
- Check the cover art for whitewashing or overexoticization.
- Pay attention to when and how race is defined, if at all.
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- Notice outsider "bridge" characters and generic versus specific cultures.
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- See who has the power to make change and who has the power to be changed.
- Ask questions about the storyteller's authenticity, privilege, and power.
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Today marks eleven years of this little old blog. Where has the time gone? It certainly doesn't seem like I have been at this for eleven years which means it must be fun otherwise I wouldn't keep at it. So how appropriate was a sort of celebration Bookman and I did yesterday: Bikeworm.
Bikeworm was the first of what I hope will be many, sponsored rides for bookish folk. The Twin Cities Book Festival was yesterday at the State Fairgrounds, the ride, advertised for those who had a hard time deciding between a book or a bike, started at the downtown Minneapolis Central Library. We got a little backpack with a snack, a bike map of the Twin Cities, a bumper sticker that says "Make Your Next Stop the Library," a bookmark, some discount coupons for booths at the festival, and a raffle ticket to win $500 worth of bike gear. The ride was limited to 100 people and I believe we ended up with 97. At 9:15 we got on our bikes and rode together along the Dinkytown Greenway, a newly completed off road bike only route that took us most of the way to the fairgrounds. It was an easy and pleasant, though chilly, 6.5 mile ride. Bookman and I have never been on a group ride like this before and we had a blast.
We even had two authors riding with us, poet and musician Ben Weaver who, at the conclusion of the ride, read us a wonderful poem he had composed for the occasion about bicycling. The other author was Terry Kerber who has just published Major Taylor. Taylor was a black cyclist and in his day the fastest man on a bike in the US.
Bookman and I locked up our bikes and went in to the festival exhibit area and wandered around to all the tables, browsing books and sometimes chatting with authors or publishers. I suck at this kind of chatting so it was really me looking interested and nodding my head a lot while Bookman did the talking. He is so good at this kind of thing I marvel to watch it. We managed to slink by the Dianetics booth without any of the Scientologists there trying to lure us over with some kind of stress test. The man in front of us wasn't so lucky. One of the publishers had a book judging poets by the weight of their beards. I flipped through it giggling. There were no bearded female poets in the book, though if there were it would have been even more interesting.
Did I buy any books? Why yes, yes I did. At the Coffee House booth I bought a copy of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thingby Eimear McBride. I've heard the beginning of the book is particularly perplexing so I opened the pages and read the first paragraph. Yes, perplexing, but in a delightful way. The Coffee House person at the booth, thinking, perhaps, that I would be turned off like so many other people are by experimental writing and difficult books, started trying to sell the book to me and assured me that after the first ten pages or so it would start to make sense. She was a bit surprised when I told her I knew all about it and loved this kind of thing, here's my credit card.
At the Graywolf Press booth I got sucked into buying two more books, The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot by Charles Baxter and The Art of Daring: Risk Restlessness, Imagination by Carl Phillips. Baxter's book discusses subtext in fiction. Phillips, a poet, takes on poetry and "its capacity for making a space for possibility and inquiry." They are slim books and are targeted at writers which explains why the person at the Loft Writing Center table who saw me buy them tried to get me to sign up for writing classes. The books may be aimed at writers, but I am always of the mind that there are plenty of things readers can get out of them too. Writing and reading are feedback loops in a way. Reading teaches one about writing and writing teaches one about reading. There were a few other tempting books but remembering I came to the festival on a bicycle, I figured three books was enough.
Katha Pollitt was scheduled to speak at 12:30 and I really wanted to stay for that, but my cold is lingering and by 11:30 my energy was beginning to flag. Bookman reminded me we had to ride home, so I gave in and we headed out to our bikes. Our return trip included a woman named Cathy who had signed up for the group ride but had driven in from the burbs and missed the group, riding over alone and not really knowing where she was going. So she asked if she could tag along with us. Of course. She was really nice and grateful for the company. Back at the library we parted ways. Bookman and I rode to the metro train station a block away and hopped on with our bikes, got off at the station closest to our house and rode the rest of the way home. I then collapsed on my reading chaise for the rest of the day, much more tired than I should have been. But it was a fun day. The ride was a success and I suspect it will happen again next year. I hope it does anyway!
Now, to also celebrate eleven years of blogging I thought it might be fun to open up my Donny and Marie diary from 1979 when I was eleven years old. Turns out I didn't have much to say that year because the only month filled in is January, but oh, what a laugh those 31 days are. Here are some samples with all the misspelling intact.
January 3, 1979
Today we were playing a game Cat's Eye. I was playing with Alicia and my sister Cindy. Cindy was cheating! I've started to write 3 storys but, I still haven't finished yet!
January 8, 1979
Today Sha came over and Cindy got mad. She told my mom of course. Now my mom said next time I write a story it has to be what a good sister is.
January 10, 1979
Today we went to room 16 only the 5th graders. We had to do mouth to mouth on resea Andy. that was the manican's name. I did it and it was awful hard to pinch a rubber nose.
January 16, 1979
Today it was cold but it did not rain. I got a letter from Tricia today. I'm going to write her back as soon as I can. We are having chille for dinner. I don't like chille.
January 17, 1979
Today at school we saw Iland of the blue dolphins. It rained and Cindy and I are playing school we are pretending to be freshmen.
January 27, 1979
We made a hop scotch out on the patio. We walked to the store with mom.
And there is a glimpse into the ever eventful life of me when I was eleven. I have no recollection of the "storys" I refer to nor do I remember not liking "chille" because I like it just fine now. I like to think in the intervening years both my writing and my spelling have improved. Perhaps one of these days I will go back in the archives and check out some of my first blog posts. But then maybe not. It is easier to forgive my eleven year-old self for being silly than it is to be kind myself from eleven years ago.
But now I'm just rambling. Blame the cold medicine.
Thank you all for visiting this little corner of cyberspace. The internet is such a big place and you could be anywhere else but here. I do so appreciate you stopping by. Each one of you are part of what has made this blogging thing so much fun and I am ever so grateful.
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Katy Perry has been tapped by President Barack Obama's reelection campaign to rally supporters at a concert in Las Vegas with the president on Wednesday, according to producer Eric Ortner, with the campaign's Entertainment Advisory Council.
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"The president will be reaching out to as many voters as possible on the critical choice in this election -- moving America forward with an economy built to last for a strong middle class, versus going back to the same policies that crashed our economy in the first place," said Ortner.
The event will mark Perry's second appearance on the campaign trail for Obama. She recently sang at a fundraiser concert in Los Angeles for the president.
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Xiu Xiu Launch Art Show, T-Shirt Series
By Tom Breihan on January 27, 2011 at 4:50 p.m. EST
Bent pop provocateurs Xiu Xiu are as much an art project as a band, and now they've got the gallery show to prove it. February 4-26, the Raleigh, North Carolina art gallery Lump will host Xiu Xiu's show "I Hate This Suffocating Fucking Towne", a mixed-media exhibition. The group will host an opening reception February 4. According to the gallery's website, "all of the pieces are symbols of the wreck that is the mind and heart of Xiu Xiu."
Download New Song From Blue Water White Death
By Tom Breihan on September 2, 2010 at 4:15 p.m. EDT
Blue Water White Death: Song for the Greater Jihad
Blue Water White Death is the new art-pop superduo comprised of Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart and Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg. Their self-titled album is due October 12, via Graveface. And up above, you can download one of the tracks from the album, the evocatively titled "Song for the Greater Jihad". It's a florid acoustic track with exactly one burst of horrible noise in its six minutes.
Meanwhile, Xiu Xiu, Stewart's main gig, is touring the entire known universe this year, and they've just added even more dates. Click below for their touring schedule.
Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart Raffles Cup of His Pee for Graveface Records
By Tom Breihan on August 18, 2010 at 11:20 a.m. EDT
Hospital Ships and Jonathan Meiburg: "Answers":
Hospital Ships: Answers [feat. Jonathan Meiburg]
A few weeks ago, major storms in Chicago caused flooding in some areas, and the Logan Square-based indie Graveface Records (Black Moth Super Rainbow, Jason Molina, Octopus Project) was hit hard. A large percentage of its stock was ruined without insurance coverage. So to make up some of the difference, Graveface is asking for donations and holding a raffle.
One of the prizes in that raffle stands out amidst all the rare test pressings and screen-printed tour posters: Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart has contributed a cup of his own piss. You've been warned.
Shearwater's Meiburg + Xiu Xiu's Stewart = Blue Water White Death
By Tom Breihan on July 21, 2010 at 5:35 p.m. EDT
Back in February, we reported that Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart and Shearwater main man Jonathan Meiburg had teamed up to form a new band called Blue Water White Death. And now this union of art-pop stars has unveiled its plans to the world. The self-titled debut album from Blue Water White Death is coming October 12 from Graveface.
Former Ghosts (Xiu Xiu/Zola Jesus Collaboration) Announce Album, Tour
By Tom Breihan on August 17, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. EDT
Way back in April, we told you about Former Ghosts, the new trio that Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart had formed with Zola Jesus mastermind Nika Roza and former This Song Is a Mess But So Am I member Freddy Ruppert. (UPDATE: To clarify, Ruppert is the main man on this project, writing most of the music.)
Now, Former Ghosts is about to become a full-on thing, with an album and a big tour coming this October. The album, titled Fleurs, is due October 20 via Upset the Rhythm. That's the cover above, and the tracklist is below; we posted opening track "Us and Now" in Forkcast last week.
Click below to hear the dry, haunted synthpop jam "Hold On", which sounds like what might've happened to Joy Division if Ian Curtis had bought a Casio and a four-track and fired the rest of the band.
Former Ghosts will spend the month of October hitting venues across North America. Check below for those dates. Note: Nika Roza won't be joining Stewart and Ruppert on the tour.
Caralee McElroy Leaves Xiu Xiu
By Tom Breihan on May 15, 2009 at 4:05 p.m. EDT
According to a post on the band's website, Xiu Xiu multi-instrumentalist Caralee McElroy has left the group. Here's what she wrote, in a post titled "Thanks for the memories":
"I have decided to stop playing in Xiu Xiu for personal reasons. Thank you to everyone who has supported me in the last 5 years. Xiu Xiu is an important and amazing band and will continue to be."
Meanwhile, Xiu Xiu frontman (and McElroy's cousin) Jamie Stewart has a new band called Former Ghosts and he's on a solo tour in Europe right now. And next year, Xiu Xiu plans to release an album called Dear God, I Hate Myself.
News in Brief: Diplomats, Jamie Stewart, Magik Markers, the Horrors
By Tom Breihan on April 9, 2009 at 1:40 p.m. EDT
-- According to MTV, the Diplomats are done. Deposed crew leader Cam'Ron appeared on Hot 97 yesterday, claiming that he'll never be able to repair relations with onetime compadre Jim Jones. The absurdist Harlem rap crew had a great run a few years back, so this news sucks hard. We'll always have this, though.
-- During Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart's current solo tour, people can send money to Stewart via PayPal so that he can buy scratch lottery tickets. Seriously. Any winnings will go to the anti-human trafficking organization Free the Slaves. Stewart collaborator David Horvitz has all the info up on his site. You could probably just give money to the organization, too, if you're so inclined. It might be more efficient.
-- On May 5, Brooklyn noise-rock duo Magik Markers will release their latest full-length, the confoundingly titled Balf Quarry, on Drag City. BOSS, the last Magik Markers album, seriously ruled, so hopes are high.
-- Also on May 5, XL will release Primary Colours, the sophomore LP from elaborately coiffed London goth-punk upstarts the Horrors. The band recruited Portishead's Geoff Barrow to produce it, which is a pretty good way of getting us to pay attention. The video for first single "Sea Within a Sea" is streaming here, and it's pretty badass.
Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart Is in a New Band
By Ryan Dombal on April 1, 2009 at 2:45 p.m. EDT
Photo by David Horvitz
This is not an April Fool's joke. Xiu Xiu leader Jamie Stewart is a member of a new trio called Former Ghosts featuring Freddy Ruppert (of the defunct This Song Is a Mess but So Am I), and PJ Harvey-esque singer Nika Roza (of Zola Jesus, who we randomly caught and loved at SXSW this year). Please, though, let's not call this a supergroup; since most supergroups suck, consider that something of a compliment.
Former Ghosts currently have three songs on their MySpace, and the group is working on an as-yet-untitled LP to be released on Upset the Rhythm later this year. I've honestly never been too into Xiu Xiu myself, but this new band's songs sound spooky and icy in all the right ways. Let's chalk the whole endeavor up to "promising" at the current date and time.
Freddy Ruppert will road test some new Former Ghosts songs without his more famous friends at a few shows in L.A. this month (see below).
Meanwhile, Stewart is about to start his first solo tour in six years (during which he will sell homemade chocolate), as previously reported.
Former Ghosts (without Jamie Stewart) dates:
Echo Chamber: Jamie Stewart
By Tom Breihan on March 27, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. EDT
Photo by David Horvitz
"HORSE the Band has asked me to try to help them make a dying robot, an exploding keyboard, a dream laugh, and a melted, drastic flute of redemption. Lucky for you and me, they have the wit and creativity to turn these things into music"
-- Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart on recording with Nintendo-metal warriors HORSE the Band
Xiu Xiu's Stewart: Solo Tour, CD Series, Chocolate
By Tom Breihan on February 11, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. EST
Photo by David Horvitz
When Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart does the solo-acoustic thing, he doesn't exactly render his band's noise-pop in Starbucks-friendly form. Next year, Stewart plans to release a new Xiu Xiu record called Dear God, I Hate Myself , so that should give you some idea of what you'll be getting with solo Stewart. If he doesn't make your knuckles turn white, he's not doing his job.
In April, Stewart heads out on his first solo tour since 2003. He's bringing along a guitar, a bird call whistle, and an ancient synth called a stylophone . And as part of an accompanying art project, Stewart and frequent Xiu Xiu accomplice David Horvitz intend to take solo portrait photos of every single person at every one of these shows, scary door guys included. Stewart will post all these photos on Xiu Xiu's website, and afterwards he'll publish the best 300 as a book. And don't worry about your hair: there will be Xiu Xiu combs available at every show to make sure you look your best.
In addition to the combs, Stewart will sell some truly interesting merch on this tour, including hand-decorated mix CDs, homemade chocolate, and "a poster series of his massive collection of stuffed animals," according to a press release.
And if that alone isn't enough homespun Jamie Stewart craftsmanship for you, pretty soon you'll be able to sign up for a subscription series that Stewart will offer via the Xiu Xiu website. Apparently, Stewart has a stockpile of "ambient, experimental, and minimalist works" that he's looking to unload. For $100, Stewart will send you one CD per month for a year. He'll hand-number every one of these discs, hand-wrap them in felt and yarn, and stick a different leaf under the tray of each CD. This subscription even comes with a "deluxe edition": For an extra $10, he'll throw in an additional disc and some of that homemade chocolate. But he's only selling 50 of these subscriptions, so act fast.
Here's what the CDs look like-- and the chocolate!
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Bayou City Outdoors
Sunday, June 16, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM (PDT)
Bayou City Outdoors
Hiking In Houston
Cleveland Park, Scotland St. & Jackson
June 16, 2013
8:30 to NOON
Want to go hiking without having to travel outside of the city? Come discover all the trails and hideaways along the Buffalo Bayou! Get lost exploring the winding flat trails, bridges, and modest hills while exercising at an easy to moderate pace. Along this 6 mile hike we will pass the bat viewing area, art sculptures, and maybe even one of the rumored Buffalo Bayou alligators or Osprey couples!
We meet at Cleveland Park on the north side of Memorial Dr., there is a foot-walkway over Memorial here. The hike will start here and then we head towards downtown on the north side of the bayou. There is parking along the street for free.
When we reach downtown, we'll stop for a water/coffee break so bring a few dollars. At the end of the hike you will have worked hard, made new friends and discovered all sorts of Houston secrets along Buffalo Bayou in our Bayou city!
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Harvard Medical School...in terms of your Hodgkin's disease. It is indeed true that the EBV virus is found in the vast majority of patients who have HIV-related Hodgkin's disease. It is also true, as your query indicates, that the immune system can control EBV... Read more »
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Alright, so I've been reading through all these replies and there's some things that have been said that I think are being looked at, well, pessimistically. The main thing that strikes me is that people are complaining about hte length of the video. Look at it this way; every time that a long video involving deep strategy comes out for a champion, everyone plays that champion that way and it takes forever for original guides to be written. I understand the think there too: "If the people who MADE the champion say that this is a good way to play them, then I'll do it this way." But in a lot of ways that stifles creativity. Instead of providing a challenge for players to overcome and celebrate their skill, it presents a challenge, solves it, and then encourages other solutions after the fact. To sum this up, a shorter video is meant to stimulate players to come up with original strategies.
Another, kinda small, thing that is bothering me (albeit humorously) is that you're all amazed that Sona took her down. I play Sona successfully (more so when innervating locket was around) and know that she has long range in all her abilities and her passive gives her decent overall damage, but Sona's strength is in the fact that she can sustain heal/damage with HIGH MOBILITY. With Song of Celerity and Boots of Swiftness, a skilled Sona can harass to death just about anyone. It's also not fair to compare the skills that ANYONE has with a new champion compared to the skills that ANYONE ELSE has with a champion that's been out for over a month.
From what I've seen of Cassiopeia so far, she is a bit more of an assassin if she has the edge, and kinda similar to Morganna if she doesn't. Her abilities synergize well with Katarina's, despite the lack of poison. And her ability help a Twitch do damage in team fight could very well be the thing that allows their team to do enough damage to keep Twitch alive, or take advantage of his poison after he dies. Same with Teemo. She seems to be a team player to me, and in a solo lane a bit more like Lux as far as lane control goes. I like that she has an expanding AoE and that she's another poison based character, that she's a mage (since I play them most) and that you have to pay attention when playing her. Sorry for the intensely long post everyone....
Well been playing her for lots of matches as I really really like her and her style of gameplay but she is very very difficult to master and i gotta admit she is a bit... weak... cause really if she doesnt have her ulti she can die very quickly and without her ulti she looses too much dmg since you have to actuall land a poison skill to even be able to use twing fangs right and that is not easy to do... she should get buffed in later patches in a way to or do more dmg with normal skills or more range for her ulti at least or soemthing to help her stay alive a little cause yeah in the beggining in mid I harras so much I make people go back alot if I dont kill them but if they get to close its almost death right there depending on the other champ.... and well yeah I love this champ but its being way to much the times I get very bad negative scores than the times I get good positive scores and dont get me wrong im not a bad player I can assure you that... being that said hope she gets buffed some way later on and I hope to see more assassins coming out plz riot =)! and see you in the fields of jusice! =D
I have played her like 25 times and keep thinking there is a way to use her, but there isnt. Atleast not the way she is right now, I never land the ult properly or I do and cant tell cuz the damage is laughable. The range on it puts you in the middle fo the melee and cant say that i ever make it out alive, I even built her like a tank and she still gets mowed. i cant see how they thought this champ was viable, super slow, no burst, no escape, no damage etc ect. if your team is awesome you can maybe have a positive score, if the match is even your screwed. Everyone knows she is fresh meat on a platter so she is target number one. Double the range of her alt, up the damage on all her abilites and maybe she is useful, its a real burn that she sucks cuz she is cool as heck I am really disapointed and frustrated with her.
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When r u guys gonna make a new char ??
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The 2012/13 South African Cyber Threat Barometer was released by IT security firm Wolfpack Information Risk in Johannesburg today. Wolfpack Managing Director Craig Rosewarne said the report was the result of extensive research into the cyber threat landscape in South Africa.
"The report is intended to provide ongoing insight to support the Cabinet's recently-approved National Cyber Security Policy Framework," he said, and was researched and compiled with the support of the British High Commission.
Rosewarne said while the true cost of cyber crime was difficult to assess, conservative estimates showed that over R2.6 billion rand had been stolen in cyber crimes in the country in the past 18 months. With a recovery rate of up to 75%, much of the stolen money had been recovered, but the impact and additional costs of cyber crime were far greater than this, he noted. Relatively few cyber crimes are reported and successfully prosecuted in SA, Rosewarne said.
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Rosewarne noted that cyber crime threatens everyone, and called on the public and private sector to work together to combat it. He said key issues identified in the research included poor threat management, with inadequate maintenance and management of audit logs; the lack of a national Computer Security Incident Response Team (CIRT) in SA and a lack of deep technical skills. He added that archaic processes and a lack of information security skills in law enforcement agencies made reporting and prosecution in cyber crimes difficult.
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^ Excellent points,
I personally have always been very ashamed to admit that I, or anyone, could have a 'dark side'. I've spent my life trying to hide it, even eliminate it. But as Tuvok once said in a VOY episode (I'm paraphrasing here), "To deny one's dark side is to create an opportunity for it to escape".
Edit: I found the transcript of the scene I was thinking of. It's from "Cold Fire".
Kes: To be honest, I never want to see that part of myself again.
Tuvok: To which part are you referring?
Kes: To the part of me which got pleasure from destroying the plants in the airponics bay. To the part of me that was tempted to go with Tanis. I never realized I had such dark impulses.
Tuvok: Without the darkness, how would we recognize the light? Do not fear your negative thoughts. They are part of you. They are a part of every living being, even Vulcans.
Kes: You?
Tuvok: The Vulcan heart was forged out of barbarism and violence. We learned to control it, but it is still part of us. To pretend it does not exist is to create an opportunity for it to escape.
For Garak's part, he did seem ashamed for what he'd done after the drug was purged from his system. And even so, you can't punish people for having feelings (hate crime laws notwithstanding), only for their overt actions. If Garak would have never killed a human without the drug, then I guess that's enough.
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UBC to incentivize its own to live on the university land
In the next five days, I and a few other UBC governors and senior staff will be visiting NYU, Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, UC-Irvine and Stanford. Just like UBC, these universities are located in areas where housing prices are prohibitive. And … Continue reading
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