Here’s a funky, interesting website out of LA that seems to promise good things to come. A bit hard to navigate at the moment, but definitely worth poking around. Featuring mixed media “movellas,” writing about art, and humorous send-ups of politicos. Nice tunes, too. Now, how this website came to my attention is a funny story, which involves my husband Kevin browsing my statcounter last night as he is wont to do, only to realize that someone had been on this very blog searching by name for said husband and his ex-girlfriend from two decades ago. Which led us...
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Amber Alert
Update: Saraj Unir Davenport has been found safe and in good condition with family members. Police say the missing child report was fraudulent. Read the story here. Police in North Carolina have issued an Amber Alert for Saraj Unir Davenport, who disappeared yesterday from a flea market parking lot in Smithfield, NC, while his mother was loading groceries into the car. Full story here. Tipline: (919) 934-2121.
Shanghaist
Chellis Yang alerted me to this blog out of China. Shanghaiist, which is normally dedicated to music and nightlife, is now running up-to-date information on the rescue effort following last week’s terrible earthquake. Also, more on Burma from the BBC. And an interesting article on the very different responses from the Burmese and Chinese governments to their two natural disasters.
your hot San Francisco weekend
It’s a scorcher today. Really. Best place to beat the heat is out in the avenues, where there’s a nice breeze to take the edge off. And if you’re one of those San Francisco people who tends to forget that our city has a coastline that stretches for miles along the Pacific, it might be a good day to take in that salty sweet smell and dip your toes in the icy waters at Ocean Beach.
living library
It feels somehow profane to write about books at this moment in history, in the aftermath of the terrible cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China, when tens of thousands of people are missing, and hundreds of thousands more are homeless. But I felt compelled, nonetheless, to link to this beautiful essay in the New York Times by Alberto Manguel, about the various libraries he has built over the years and how they have come to be with him now, in a tiny village in France: FOR the last seven years, I’ve lived in an old stone presbytery...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
