Archive for March, 2008
Newbie Mistress of My Domain
Late last year, I finally snagged my name as a domain. Someone who shares that name must have let it slip through her fingers. Claiming it was satisfying, but I can’t help wondering about her. Is she out there somewhere kicking herself? I would be.
But mostly now, I’m in the process of coming up with [...]
Lady Macbeth’s Motivation?
A recent Saturday, we went to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to see Patrick Stewart play a Cold War-version of Macbeth.
Always a cipher to me is Lady Macbeth. In this production, she is played slinky and elegant by Kate Fleetwood. I’ve always wondered about Lady M’s motivation. After all, the witches said that [...]
Lost Souls on The Wire
Ordinarily, I’d be writing about horses here. And, as odd as it is to imagine, HBO’s gritty urban blight series “The Wire” had a horse in its final couple of episodes.
Teenaged Duquan (“Dukie”) joins forces with an Arabber, one of the now only-in-Baltimore street vendors who work out of horse-drawn carts. Although the Arrabber on [...]
RSS to the Rescue?
Photo by Rhonda Lane
I try to keep up with my favorite blogs but it can be tough. Real Life gets in the way of Virtual Life.
So, it’s RSS to the rescue. Because I don’t check my Google and Yahoo accounts often, I have it sent to my main email. Apparently not all blogs do that. [...]
Slowing down for Florrida
I needed to make a new category. I was tired. So, now we have a new state. Florrida. And because it’s a category, I can’t correct it.
This is symbolic of a larger issue for me. A daily blog, especially of all-horse-stuff, is gonna grind me down to a nub. Don’t get me wrong – I [...]
A Follow-Up to an Old Story
A couple of years ago, I wrote an essay on spec that I sent to a Kentucky business magazine called The Lane Report . (No relation, BTW. My married name is Lane, though.) When you read it, you’ll be able to tell that it all comes from the heart. Here’s a follow-up.
I still go for [...]
The Adams Family
At 650 pages, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Adams intimidated the bejeezus out of me. But it’s gotta be exciting, though, or Tom Hanks wouldn’t have selected it for one of his productions, a mini-series that debuts on HBO — not PBS, not Discovery — but HBO in a couple of weeks. So, when [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Learning blogging 2
I need to figure out some of this blogging mechanics stuff. I had another topic in mind for today but couldn’t find the “images” I wanted.
I need to make this process more efficient. So, I’m off to find what I need — of course, I’ll share my findings.
Parlez vous blogspeak?
I’ve found a really instructive website. Don’t be put off by all the advertising emphasis. You’ll find informative articles for beginners here, too.
One of the frustrations of looking up info has been knowing what to call something. Like the pictures. They’re not called “photos” or “graphics” or “illustrations” or “art” (the newspaper term for photos). [...]
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