File under G for Gaddis, Gonzales &c.

The Gaddis blog kicked up a little over the weekend after I replied to a post: the chaps at Chekhov’s Mistress published their entries on both sites, what a good idea. My ramblings are not worth publishing anywhere and I hate to think what would have ensued had I fulfilled all the requirements for group membership and started in on my party supplies.
And thanks Ed, I’m up to speed on Mr. Gonzales now after catching this report in the Boston Globe. Has the world ever been safe for Geneva conventions ?

People who sit still think loudest

I’m going to write a full-blown evaluation of this woman’s stylish contribution to the blogosphere one day. For now, I’m happy enough to praise her categories:
Books
Boxed Sets
Brief Pauses
Current Affairs
Full-out Distractions
Long Pauses
Phenomena
Television
A blog can be a lovely thing, God wot… I really enjoy her writing style and her subject matter is a fruitful area for an ageing feminist like myself.

crying time

This is a truly shameful story. When will Johnny's government acknowledge what the coalition of the willing has acquiesced in, in the name of what exactly?

on the wickett

Interesting interviews with American literary journal editors - Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network runs these ( in chat sessions I guess) from time to time, and has interviewed two lots of litbloggers as well.

the search for knowledge - Pilgrim's Progress for the 'noughties

Mr. Locke encouraged me to sign up for a HighBeam research email alert on blogging tools which are currently being developed by this online research firm, so I did. And will try out their free trial when their website traffic is a little less hectic. RMIT University library uses this service, so it comes already recommended to me.
And yes, he has written one funny thing on his main blog about Emerson. I’m referring, of course, to his 21st century pilgrims Rank Opinion and Godly Bravado.

as they say in my country, surf's up

found a great pic at RageBoy, thank you Mr. Locke. Not trying to sound like a name-dropper here – being a librarian you want to TELL everybody where everything is all the fucking time. A bit tedious, what? But anyone who doesn’t already know the name JOHO should have a look there, here at Mr. Locke’s site and finally to the spot that started most of it – a nailing of theses to the 20th century Marketing Church door
Oh, and the picture? I just filed it under digital art – let me know where you think it really belongs. Locke simply says “wish she was my mom”.

ya ya ya, and we'll all have a glorious time

Note ye, note ye, that The Morning News and Powells Books are having the First Annual Tournament of Books.
I'm sure everyone in Australia will know once I post this ( Yeah!) and remember their Camelot choruses too.
You can find the brackets of jousting books here at The Morning News. A full explanation of this fun concept is offered here.
Given that Australians are in the grip of fourth round tennis fever here, a book tournament is probably just what the doctor ordered. But hang on, where's our Alicia? and our Lleyton?? Que??

and inside the bag there's a free choir

I'm beginning to see the light. What fun this is if you've done very basic HTML at library school and keep forgetting to try and use it.
I wonder if I could get good enough at this to offer to revamp the Monash Choral Society's website - they could do with a blog. This can be my practice ground I think. It is odd seeing I, I, I all over the page. I wonder how many bloggers feel this when they start up. Who am I talking to? I googled this site several ways last night and feel I am virtually anonymous. No one will look at this, so it's fair game for polishing the publishing without tears.
I'm off now - two bung showers in this house and the shower magician is doing his thang. It will all look groovy when my husband's four brothers and three sisters ( no he is not Manuel from Barcelona) come over for his birthday next week. That's right, they look at things that are broken. Plenty of these around here as we do most things in our heads and also have a handicapped son to care for. Off to have another coffee and read the rest of the Isak Dinesen interview I downloaded from the Paris Review archive yesterday. Delightful.

Time to blog I guess - and I only wanted a profile really

I am trying this out today. I guess librarians should know how to set up blogs anyway. All I really wanted to do was set up a profile in Blogger so I could join the Gaddis Drinking Club.

Since October/November of last year, when I first clicked through from TMTFL to Mark Sarvas' blog The Elegant Variation, I've been messing about with US litblogs, compiling reading lists to take to the library and generally having a good old stretch of the brain ( educated for free by Gough Whitlam in the very late 70s and courtesy of student loans again in the early 'noughties) in the blogosphere.

Already the book reviews in the local papers ( The Age, The Australian) look jaded to me,and the other day I found a Maureen Dowd article in hard copy around the house which I fully meant to read online when I got the password from Bugmenot to work.

Other uses I've found for weblogs? Last year I used Trevor Cook's blog, Corporate Engagement, for a bit of uni work on public relations and information seeking. And to be perfectly honest, I cut my blogging teeth commenting on posts at Worthwhile.com , and through them Frank Paynter's enjoyable SandhillTrek.
Hey, this is better fun than I thought - my son wants my attention already, he knows I'm up to something new! CYALL.