I went to college in South Carolina, not very far from the old PTL/Heritage USA complex. I never went, but had friends who did as a sort of anthropological excursion. I imagine a number of other students went with no sense of irony whatsoever.
One professor at my college had an idea he was studying: […]

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Great interview with Stephen Colbert
AlterNet: MediaCulture: A Super Straight Guy
COLBERT: First of all, I am a super straight guy. I grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, and I am perfectly comfortable in blue blazers, khaki pants, Brooks Brothers suits and regimental striped ties. It’s just genetic. I love a cocktail party with completely vacuous […]

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Great interview with Stephen Colbert
AlterNet: MediaCulture: A Super Straight Guy
COLBERT: First of all, I am a super straight guy. I grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, and I am perfectly comfortable in blue blazers, khaki pants, Brooks Brothers suits and regimental striped ties. It’s just genetic. I love a cocktail party with completely vacuous […]

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That’s Dedication

Originally uploaded by inkblurt.

I posted a few more BlobFest pics to Flickr. Why? Because I know y’all can’t get enough, that’s why!
This whole thing was a blast to me. It had all the home-towniness of a real American town festival, but without being whitebread-bland. […]

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I’m doing some research on old technology and how people talked about it when it was new to them, and ran across this terrific site with an article about Murry Mercier and TV in 1929
My favorite part of this page is the scan of the news article from April 29, 1929, The Ohio State Journal […]

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Check out my quick movie clip of the 2005 BlobFest “Running out and Screaming” :-)
Blob Run 2005 Movie Clip — MPEG; 7MB

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Steve Almond is a guy I knew in my MFA Program. He’s (I think) the single most published writer from our little graduating class of ten or so people. Like, he’s an actual writer, making a living as a writer (and teaching).
Anyway, this interview he did with pre-teen-ish girl band Smoosh is fun: The […]

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My daughter’s staying with me for the month of July, and we can’t wait to see the upcoming upcoming Blob Festival here in Phoenixville. It’s the weekend of July 15.
We watched the movie, and it’s a trip. I hadn’t seen it since I was her age, a crummy pan and scan broadcast on TV. […]

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The Pirate Supply Store!
Authors Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida opened up a specialty shop that sells pirate supplies in SF. The proceeds go to support the writing labs for kids that they started (one is at http://www.826valencia.org/).
One day I’ll have my head out of my rear end enough that I’ll not only write excellent books, […]

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The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson is synonymous with being curled up between my parents in bed, warm, safe, just barely awake after being asleep a while already, only to open my eyes some and see the flicker of the screen and hear those voices, and that friendly self-deprecating, wry delivery that always meant to […]

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Please visit the OmniShrine Wiki!
Rather than commenting on this blog, where hardly anyone will ever see what you said or asked, why not post your thoughts in a space that’s more suitable?
Try the OmniShrine Wiki!
I set it up so that fans of Omni can share information, and also be able to subscribe to comments […]

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