Used to be a bank. Now it’s a dollar store. What does this say about the state of our local economy? Or the national economy…
Pronounce the dot.
Author: Editor B
Consider the word aa. It is surely worthy of consideration, as it is one of the first words in most dictionaries — the very first…
Today was one of the strangest days of my admittedly strange career. I suppose that being an extra in a big film or television production…
Just noticed I have exactly 666 “friends” on Facebook.
Damnation. Now I can’t add anymore friends unless someone unfriends me. Because, of course, I am an ardent hexakosioihexekontahexaphile.
Update: It took me a while to figure out how to save an image showing all 666 “friends.” (Abduction by Rowan Lewis proved to be the key.) The resultant image is over 14,000 pixels tall, so view at your peril.
I’ve gotta give some props to Eric Spears for continuing to excavate such gems from his personal video collection. Here’s Christy Paxson Behind the Scenes…
Folks who subscribe to e-mail updates for this blog (via Feedburner) may have noticed they aren’t coming regularly. This problem has been ongoing for about…
I like to keep the old holidays. Well, some of them, anyway. I find old traditions fascinating, but I live in 2011, so whatever I…
As previously mentioned, HBO’s Treme is recreating the 2007 March for Survival. I’m trying to “drum up” some support for recreating the Mid-City contingent. In…
We’ve been having a bit of trouble making ends meet ever since Xy changed schools and took a $20K pay cut. Sometimes it’s that last…
Item #1: According to Editorial Anonymous (a blog of a children’s book editor): Trend Watch: Persephone Is the New Zombies/Vampires Well, I certainly wouldn’t have…
Last night FOLC had its annual board election. I was excited but also a little nervous. We had a bigger slate of candidates than ever…
If I was feeling better I would attend one of these marches today. SilenceIsViolence a campaign for peace in New Orleans STRIKE AGAINST CRIME: FRIDAY,…
Throughout my childhood my family made regular visits to my grandfather’s place, a doublewide trailer at the dead end of a long rural road, secluded…
I’m not quite in my right mind today, thanks to some cold medicine I took this morning. So this might be the perfect time to…
I seem inordinately predisposed to getting a sore throat. (I also have a propensity for swollen nodes in the throat, which may or may not…
Dear Persephone, Oops. You made thirty-five months yesterday, but I didn’t realize it until I was lying down in bed last night. So this letter…
It’s been well over a year since we moved to our new house, and the pangs of regret are finally starting to ebb. Regrets? Well,…