RIP, Studs Terkel
Sadly, Studs Terkel has passed away, far too young at age 96. He is one dude I wish could have lived to 300. If I were to want to be more like anyone, it would be Studs. I was lucky enough to meet him just shy of 5 years ago. At the time I made [...]
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Tags: studsterkelThis Weekend is the Myrtle Beach Comic Convention
This weekend is when the comic book convention in Myrtle Beach happens. It will be held at the Springmaid Resort which is at the very south tip of Ocean Boulevard. My original plan was to spend all day Saturday over there, but it turns out I have to travel on Saturday. However they are operating [...]
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Tags: springmaidresort, xcon, xconmyrtlebeachCharleston Zombie Action
I talked to my friend Dan Conover on the phone today, tomorrow is Halloween and this week I’ve been in my workshop making artificial dismembered body parts. All those combine into a souffle of rotting flesh when you think back to Dan’s short film from earlier this year, Brunch of the Living Dead embedded below [...]
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Tags: charleston, danconover, zombiesYou Fight Like You Train And You Govern Like You Campaign
Despite my stubborn refusal to drink the Obama kool-aid, the Democrats would have had to field a real crap lousy candidate for me to fail to vote for whomever isn’t John McCain. Over and over I heard the meme about what an “honorable man” McCain is, despite his documented history of corruption and scumbaggery. I [...]
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Early Voting “Seems Wrong”
Local columnist Bob Bestler published a column the other day in the Myrtle Beach Sun News that may be the silliest thing I’ve read in that paper. This is not a small feat. In it, Bestler says that it seems wrong to him to have votes cast before election day because it cuts down on [...]
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Dubious Records
One of my true OCD traits is that I mark durations and personal records frequently. Since I’ve spent much of my life nomadic, since I left for college at age 18, I have lived in 14 different dwellings in 6 different metro areas. In the 1995 to 2004 time period, we held drivers licenses in [...]
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An Imaginary Onion Headline
I have no idea what made this pop into my head, but here is an Onion style headline that occurred to me this morning:
Jamaican Supreme Court Set to Rule Today in the case of Babylon v. Zion
I wish I had a story to go with it, but I suspect it’s all downhill from the headline.
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Proposition 8 == Hate
I attended my first gay wedding in 1993 and it was a beautiful event. That couple is still together and is as strong a union as any married couple I know. When I was a child, I remember one of the main reasons provided for homosexuality being wrong was the high promiscuity associated with it. [...]
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Tags: gaymarriage, imtootoughtobescaredofgaypeople, proposition8, subgeniusGreensboro Weekend
Last weekend I power drove to Greensboro NC to attend Converge South. I’ve been to three of the four they have put on and always had a good time. I was also a co-organizer of the Saturday event to fill the space when BlogHer cancelled, which was a tad stressful but also fun. Things really [...]
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Tags: blogher, convergesouth, convergesouth2008, davidhoggard, donlewis, edcone, grandstrandbloggers, greensboro, ibc08, janetedens, kelbycarr, murlafferty, robertscoble, rubysinreich, waynesuttonGoogle Contacts and the G1
I have not been the slightest bit tempted by the iPhone but I’m a little interested in the idea of the G1 Android phone. Our AT&T contracts aren’t up until this spring so I’ve got lots of time to mull over the decision but I’m beginning to like the idea of it. I’ve been reading [...]
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Tags: android, g1, googlecontactsAround the Podosphere 10/22
On Elvis Mitchell’s The Treatment from a few weeks ago, he interviewed Clark Gregg. He’s one of those character actors that I like every single time I see him on screen. I like him almost enough to watch “The New Adventures of Old Christine.” Almost. I did not know until hearing this that he wrote [...]
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Tags: amigofish, choke, chuckpalahniuk, clarkgregg, elvismitchell, javaposse, podcasting, thetreatmentAl Qaeda Endorses McCain
John McCain made a huge deal this spring about Hamas supporting Obama, so it’s time to play “what comes around goes around.” Today’s entrant is the fact that Al Qaeda has endorsed John McCain. Of course they would. Just like Bush/Cheney are, McCain/Palin would be partners in the terror and repression business. They need each [...]
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The Party of Lincoln
Here’s a repeat of something I said on FriendFeed today. I do not watch any of the 24 hour cable news channels and have scrupulously avoided them for several years now. However, it’s common to have them blaring in restaurants and car dealerships and such so I can’t always avoid them.
Recently in one of those [...]
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Normal Life
Observation: When you spend a whirlwind weekend driving out of town, attending a new media conference, organizing part of it on really really short notice, attending shindigs and basically running around like crazy, it makes it seem a little weird and immensely pleasurable to resume your normal boring life.
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ConvergeSouth Gives Way to Independent Blogging Conference - Greensboro
I’m here in the ad hoc conference in Greensboro. I think the name by acclamation is “Independent Blogging Conference”, although I was having fun with the fact that we didn’t really have a name for it. I’m in the first session of the morning, and sweating the details of what we are going to do [...]
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Tags: convergesouth, convergesouth2008, ibc08I’m at ConvergeSouth, Finally
It took longer than planned but I’m here at this year’s Converge South. I ran into a few people at lunch but not enough. The first session I have attended is Ruby Sinreich’s presentation on hyperlocal blogging. This day will be hectic, but I hope I can catch up with people at the BBQ tonight. [...]
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Tags: convergesouth, convergesouth2008, rubysinreichThis Saturday after Converge South, the Day That is Not BlogHer
If you are going to Greensboro this weekend for Converge South, don’t forget that we are doing a spontaneous make up day to fill in the hole left by BlogHer when they cancelled their Saturday session. Kelby Carr has organized a morning of panels and I have disorganized an afternoon of hands-on workshops. The afternoon [...]
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Tags: convergesouth2008, danconover, donlewis, janetedens, jaredsmith, kelbycarr, murlaffertyMyrtle Beach Comic Convention
On Halloween weekend, there will be a comic book convention in Myrtle Beach. It will be held at the Springmaid Resort which is at the very south tip of Ocean Boulevard. This location is convenient to Market Commons, Myrtle Beach State Park and all of the Ocean Boulevard attractions. If you have friends, family or [...]
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Tags: comics, xconmyrtlebeachFuture Shock Reminder
Don’t forget: the past that you think of as charming, when change was controllable and you understood the technology and society - that was someone else’s dystopic out of control pre-singularity future. Whenever things seem out of control now, in two generations it will be a Waltonesque time of placid ease to whatever hard-wired metal [...]
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Morning Stories at a Crossroads
For those of you who listen to the Morning Stories podcast from WGBH in Boston, you know that show has come to an end. The budget ran out for the program and it is no longer being produced under the aegis of WGBH. However, my friend Tony Kahn has not yet given up, and he [...]
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