Posting will be light today. I’m going to NYC for the Pajamas Media launch. I’ll update later if I can.
Update: I dig the PM story on National Review Online, but the writer misspelled my name. [Fixed!]
Update II (1:00 p.m): Plane delayed on runway. What fun! I decided to open comments for entertainment purposes. What’s happening in the blogosphere today?
Update III (4-something p.m.): Waiting for my limo, dahlings…
Update IV (6:45 p.m.): OK, time to blog. If you’re a reader who thinks I blog about myself too much, now’s the time to flee.
3…2…1…The best thing about New York City so far: No jetlag! About an hour ago, I experienced every writer’s dream. An editor at the excellent Christian Research Journal asked if I’d write an article about Kwanzaa, the “African American” holiday. The dream part is having an editor contact you with an assignment rather than submit queries and wait. And wait. And wait to hear back.
Downstairs people are mixing it up and socializing, but I’m in my room blogging and procrastinating. I’m trying to finish an article for Biblical Worldview Magazine, due tomorrow. I wish I had the time (and money) to hang out in NYC for a few days. The last time I was in the area was around 1999 when a friend and I drove up to attend a wedding in Yonkers. Two law school classmates tied the knot.
When I was a kid, we lived on Long Island for a few years, but eventually returned to South Carolina. I didn’t like living in a small town and looked forward to summer trips to visit my mother’s sister in Harlem and my father’s father on the island. I used to love those family road trips. I felt safer in the car with my parents and siblings on the road at 4:00 a.m. than I’ve ever felt in my life.
Enough waxing nostalgic. Got to finish this article.
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Sorry to hear La Shawn! Hope you have fun when you get there.
I’ll be there tomorrow, looking forward to meeting everybody!
Here’s something a little different for you La Shawn. One of my favorite pro wrestlers died Sunday. Why does this bear talking about here? His tremendous Christian witness.
We also lost Pastor Adrian Rogers this morning.
The New York Times reported today that the Kansas Board of Education has changed the definition of science. This follows the adoption of the intelligent design theory. It is funny how the religious right supports the teaching of intelligent design. I know that intelligent design is suppose to equate to teaching about God. But God has a name, and it is not intelligent design. This is just about as bad as those who want to take “In God We Trust” off of our money.
What’s with this nonsense? I don’t understand why there remains an argument about pray in schools and the teaching of evolution. Many people believe that our schools are failing and are incapable of teaching our kids anything. If that is the case, what is the fuss about?
Parents, pastors, and clergy are in the best position to teach children about God. Not teachers.
The major bloggers that the article mentions have become popular with the media’s help, so I just see the bloggers as one aspect of the media. The self-congratulatory attitude of the bloggers might backfire one day, and they might end up under the kind of scrutiny, distrust, and dread that the other parts of the media are facing.
Whoa, CRI is very particular about the authors they use so that is a compliment indeed! Congrabulations!
I thought this was cool in regards to Jordan:
“In a bid to keep foreign militants from operating covertly in Jordan, Interior Minister Awni Yirfas announced new regulations demanding that all Jordanians notify authorities within 48 hours of any foreigners renting an apartment or house.
Authorities will demand that Jordanians provide the names, nationalities and passport details of any foreigner renting a property.”
Wow..passports, legal documents, etc. Are not those the things that are written in our laws that foreigners should have?? What a concept.
Interesting info about kwaanza…..La Shawn, u do shoot from the hip!!
I couldn’t find the idea of Pajamas Media more exciting. The blogosphere has proven itself as a (greatly needed) critical filter of newsgatherers. The next obvious step, that Pajamas is taking, is to become newsgatherers, and in a systematic way (covering all topics, all parts of the globe, etc), while of course continuing to operate as its own self-critic.
“O Brave News World – that has such bloggers in’t.!”
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