I’m extremely pleased with my Tumblr blog. I think it’s because I can look at it, and because it lacks any element of the personal, being only a hodgepodge of images and quoted text, I can almost imagine that someone else created it — not me. So it has that thrill of discovery, despite the fact that I am wholly responsible for it.
But I’m not wholly responsible, because in fact the design, the appearance of the words and images, was not by my hand, either. Which further abstracts it, and heightens my enjoyment.
I should announce a few new publications here:
The Washington City Paper ran my shortish article about hanging out with a disgruntled Washington Nationals fan. (It’s the last in this package.) This is my first article in the City Paper, which I’ve been reading since I was an impressionable teenager. So that’s pretty exciting. They did run a letter of mine years ago in which I commented on a raging controversy at the time about the pornographic nature of Shawn Belschwender’s comic strips. I was, in essence, pro-porn. I didn’t know that Mr. Belschwender was still penning a strip — it’s unfortunate the City Paper doesn’t carry it anymore, but then, they don’t carry any worthwhile strips these days.
In These Times, the progressive magazine, printed my article about radio stations run by Native tribes.
Stay tuned for more!
Posted by nedlog at October 10, 2008 3:40 PM | TrackBack