Monthly Archives: August 2008

Falling for Steve Forbert…again

August 23, 2008
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Falling for Steve Forbert…again

Kevin and I went to see Steve Forbert last night at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley to celebrate Kevin’s birthday. The first time Kevin gave me a Steve Forbert song on a mixed tape–Fayetteville, Arkanasas, circa 1994, “Romeo’s Tune”–I was in my early twenties, fresh out of Alabama by way of Knoxville, and I couldn’t quite figure out this guy from San Francisco with such great taste in music. When I moved to New York City with Kevin a couple of years later, he took me to a Steve Forbert show at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, and over the next...

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Underground America

August 15, 2008
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Nice article in the Chronicle today about Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, the new book edited by Peter Orner, composed of the stories of undocumented immigrants. The stories were gathered and compiled by Orner and his graduate students at San Francisco State University. Underground America was published by McSweeney’s as part of the Voices of Witness series.

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Day 469

August 15, 2008
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469 days after Madeleine McCann went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, Kate and Gerry McCann continue to hold out hope that she is alive. Following the opening of the case files in recent weeks, there seems to be more reason than ever to believe that Madeleine was likely abducted by a pedohile ring. On his blog yesterday, Gerry McCann issued another plea for Madelein’s return: Our investigators continue to explore credible leads and will continue to do so as long as Madeleine is missing. Now that the authorities are no longer looking for...

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Odd Shelf

August 14, 2008
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Karen Templer has recently finished a brilliant redesign of her groundbreaking online literary community, Readerville. If you haven’t been to Readerville in a while, stop by to see great features like Most Coveted Covers, Ode to a Lesser Known Genius, and The Odd Shelf, wherein writers and readers talk about the unusual shelf in their bookcase, the one that houses books focused on a particular, often peculiar, subject. My odd shelf is all about math. Read it here. Do you have an odd shelf, a coveted cover, a lesser-known genius about whom you’d like to spread the word? Then...

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Your Avatar & My Avatar, Together at Last

August 13, 2008
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Your Avatar & My Avatar, Together at Last

Well, I’m taking the plunge into Second Life today and will be appearing in Athena Isle to talk about writing, my books, and whatever else the women at Athena Isle throw at me. The chat will be today at noon. Details here at the Athena Isle blog. If you’re a second-lifer, stop on by and say hello to my avatar. (I just set it up yesterday, and realized I can’t go by my own last name…my second life name is Michelle Mefusula). HERE’s THE SECOND LIFE LOCATION.

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