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Archive for May 2009
Erika Simmons
Post from Artist a Day
Sunday, May 31, 2009, 6:01 am
Read more: Art
About Erika (iRI5):
iRI5 is an imaginative painter and sculptor who is driven by an incredible passion for self-expression through art. Her works are often noted for their unique style, elegance, and technique. iRI5 has developed an innovative style that focuses on recycling found materials, such as old cassettes [...]
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Geoffrey Gorman
Post from Artist a Day
Saturday, May 30, 2009, 6:01 am
Read more: Art
Geoffrey on his work:
A broken bent tree branch, bleached from sun and rain, makes me think of weathered bones: fingers, legs, backbone, and hip bone. Old stained strips of cloth act like bandages and clothing, hiding and holding it all together. Sculpted wax covers the frame and joints of [...]
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ConU takes PBS to school
Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Saturday, May 30, 2009, 4:24 am
Read more: Writing
Apropos of nothing, I thought it would be neat/nerdy to share that my alma mater has partnered with the Mountain Lake, NY, affiliate of PBS for a program on how kids are addicted to technology.Read more here (with video clip).
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ConU takes PBS to school
Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Saturday, May 30, 2009, 4:24 am
Read more: Writing
Apropos of nothing, I thought it would be neat/nerdy to share that my alma mater has partnered with the Mountain Lake, NY, affiliate of PBS for a program on how kids are addicted to technology.
Read more here (with video clip).
Read the original post on Giancarlo La Giorgia – Writers Blog
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Stephanie Henderson
Post from Artist a Day
Friday, May 29, 2009, 6:01 am
Read more: Art
About Stephanie:
Stephanie is an adjunct professor at The College for Creative Studies in Detroit and also enrolled in the Masters program at Detroit’s Wayne State University. She currently has work at the Robert Kidd Gallery in Birmingham and C-Pop Gallery in Detroit.
Stephanie on her work:
My work is symbolic of [...]
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Netbookin’ It
Post from Mommy Writer - Bethany Hiitola
Friday, May 29, 2009, 12:50 am
Read more: Writing
I finally broke down and purchased a netbook last week. And by finally I mean, it’s been about a year in which I have walked passed those sweet little machines on the shelf, oohing and aahing about how fabulous it would be to carry this small little pouch with me so I could write on a computer ANY time (writing long-hand was my alternative. And as old school and fun as it can sound, finding the time to THEN transfer to a computer… well in my world just takes to damn long) So, I bought one. And after a week of hell (2 kids with pneumonia, one hospitalized for about 24 hours), I am finally using somewhere other than my kitchen table to check my email.
HP Mini won out the competition for one reason only–keyboard. I can type on the thing without completely re-adjusting my typing style. Really, I spent hours typing on all the various machines trying to get the feel for the keyboard, what it would be like typing on the thing, if the keyboard was noisy, and… well a myriad of other things one does as a writer when testing a keyboard. And the HP mini won hands down. Mostly because there were no spaces between the damn keys. And secondly, have you seen the nice swirly design on the outside? It’s fun. And it felt so me. Thus, happy netbook owner is in your midst.
Now if the kids stay healthy, and sleeping on their own at night without a bit of prodding, a work schedule that gives me a 15 minute break here and there–you just might see more writing from me right here on this blog. Or in an even BETTER place, more fiction writing from me. That’s right, have some more freebies (finally) that I plan to post on the site. Mostly so I keep writing, and secondly, to see if I can get some followers of my writing. It always helps when trying to get the publishing Gods to notice you.
So, off to type happily away on my little netbook and hopefully produce a story worth posting on the site. And if you are a writer and looking for the perfect writing any-time pal that is fun and stylish and just well… useful. Try one out. Don’t expect your full computer (it’s not), think of it as the portable writing version, and you’ll love it. I’m just dying to use it for more than 15 minutes…
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Plowboys and Indians
Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Thursday, May 28, 2009, 7:42 pm
Read more: Writing
Genocide for the sake of a few cords of wood and other natural resources is the subject of a brutal article I just read by Felipe Milanez, appearing in the usually obscene and obnoxious Vice (true to form, the lead photo shows a topless Amazonian, thou…
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Plowboys and Indians
Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Thursday, May 28, 2009, 7:42 pm
Read more: Writing
Genocide for the sake of a few cords of wood and other natural resources is the subject of a brutal article I just read by Felipe Milanez, appearing in the usually obscene and obnoxious Vice (true to form, the lead photo shows a topless Amazonian, though it’s more National Geographic than pornographic).
I thought I’d share [...]
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Mouse art tribute to the man behind Mickey’s voice
Post from Lasting Tribute
Thursday, May 28, 2009, 3:31 pm
Read more: Art
A wonderful tribute to the man behind Mickey Mouse’s voice, Wayne Allwine, has appeared at the Lasting Tribute website, posted by one of its users.The ascii art depicts the famous mouse.Click on the image to see his tribute page, and then scroll down.
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Mouse art tribute to the man behind Mickey’s voice
Post from Lasting Tribute
Thursday, May 28, 2009, 3:31 pm
Read more: Art
A wonderful tribute to the man behind Mickey Mouse’s voice, Wayne Allwine, has appeared at the Lasting Tribute website, posted by one of its users.
The ascii art depicts the famous mouse.
Click on the image to see his tribute page, and then scroll down.
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Weighty Topic
Post from Mommy Writer - Bethany Hiitola
Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 12:41 pm
Read more: Writing
My husband is training for a marathon. I sit on the couch and try to simultaneously watch the kids, read, and possibly take in some television (like my weird obsession lately with America’s Top Model). Yes, I’m the lazy ass in the family. But who the hell is going to watch the 6-year and 20-month old? It’s not like I can have The Peanut run along beside me. Then again, at the pace I’d run a mile, she might have a leg up on me since she’s got more energy in an hour than I might have in an entire day.
But this brings up a good point. When I was all over the Weight Watcher thing (pre-kid), I’d lost over 60 lbs. I was eating healthy, exercising a bit and having a good ole time at looking good. Husband at the decent food, but didn’t start a running kick. In fact, I think he had a good time drinking a ton of beer and laughing at my beer-to-water ratio I deemed upon myself so I wouldn’t add too many calories to my daily intake.
Then–time passed, I dropped the diet, had a kid, found employment that was inevitably more stressful, moved a few times, had another kid… deaths in the family… and well, here we are. My husband the new healthy one and me not so much. I’m doing nothing but scolding myself for what I SHOULD be doing to get myself in a better state (about 50 lbs lighter). I think about exercise, about how I should be doing it, and I cook meals that are healthier–and eat them, but yet, here I am. Still sitting on the couch, taking the kids for a short walk here and there, but still feeling crummy.
I’ve taken baby steps at drinking more water and adding more exercise, but overall, the motivation isn’t there. And I am not sure what I can do to GET that motivation to just keep going.
Believe me when I tell you, once I got over the initial hump of eating healthy, it got easier. Much easier. And I felt great. In fact in a month, my clothes were feeling looser. I was able to drop a jean size or two in a matter of a few months. And those compliments thrown my way? Genius! So, I know what’s possible. I know what I can do and what’s possible. But…
Yes, but… I have nothing else to say. Am I not ready? Is it just that it is easier not to think about it?
If I really think about it, I am just exhausted. I am trying schedule everything, get the kids where they need to be every day, tracking homework, diaper needs, reading schedules, soccer games, snacks, dinners, housekeeping, work meetings, deadlines, bed times, bathing needs, and all things that all of us has to do. But to track calories? Points? Minutes I have worked out (miles run)? It’s just another damn thing to track and I am sick of it all. I’ve scheduled out. Completely. And dieting in any form (even if it just means eating healthier) means I have to track yet another thing to get my day moving correctly and I just don’t think I have it in me. At least today. So bear with me while I haul the extra 50lbs around for another few months. Maybe by then I’ll realize the lost weight just might give me the extra kick I need.
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Unpublished WH Auden poems discovered
Post from Lasting Tribute
Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 9:14 am
Read more: Writing
Three previously unpublished poems by the Anglo-American poet WH Auden have been found in the archives of the British Film Institute.
The poems, written more than 70 years ago, were found by a researcher studying Auden’s career in the cinema.
“The verses are a poetic translation of anonymous Russian peasant songs extolling the virtues of Lenin and [...]
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Hospital Conversation*
Post from Mommy Writer - Bethany Hiitola
Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 12:40 am
Read more: Writing
“Mom?”
“Yes honey?”
“Thanks for bringing me here.”
“You’re welcome buddy. Just get well.”
“I will.”
* The Kiddo was admitted to the hospital last Monday. For his asthma. The asthma that comes on with almost every cold. Only this time, it seemed pretty bad. Oxygen. IVs. And this feeling of being such and awful mom. And this conversation? Well, it broke my heart in more ways than one.
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Op-ed: Newspapers (and journalists) must adapt or die
Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Thursday, May 21, 2009, 10:50 pm
Read more: Writing
Every journalist has been thinking it, but few want to face the facts: as the newspaper goes, so go the journalists. In an op-ed piece on the Christian Science Monitor (I’d say “in,” but, alas, that “newspaper” is now an exclusively online publication due to cost-cutting), media economics professor Robert G. Picard expounds on why [...]
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Children’s writer Siobhan Dowd wins another posthumous prize
Post from Lasting Tribute
Thursday, May 21, 2009, 2:59 pm
Read more: Writing
Siobhan Dowd, who died in August 2007, has posthumously won the prestigious Bisto Children’s Book of the Year prize for the second year running.
The award from Children’s Books Ireland was accepted by her sister Oona Emerson in Dublin yesterday.
She won acclaim with her debut novel A Swift Pure Cry (2006) and her second novel [...]
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Children’s writer Siobhan Dowd wins another posthumous prize
Post from Lasting Tribute
Thursday, May 21, 2009, 2:59 pm
Read more: Writing
Siobhan Dowd, who died in August 2007, has posthumously won the prestigious Bisto Children’s Book of the Year prize for the second year running.
The award from Children’s Books Ireland was accepted by her sister Oona Emerson in Dublin yesterday.
She won acclaim with her debut novel A Swift Pure Cry (2006) and her second novel [...]
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‘I’m All Right Jack’ writer Alan Hackney has died
Post from Lasting Tribute
Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 11:12 am
Read more: Writing
We’re sad to hear of the death of Alan Hackney, the British writer of screenplays and novels whose best known work was the classic satire I’m All Right Jack.The film, starring Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael and splendid supportin…
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