In my email today, I received the following verse: Cyn Closkey with your hair all rosey-red Please tell me of the next new blogfest’s date. The time as well must get inside my head For me to be there on time and not late. I’ll drink a beer or two before I leave And chomp …
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Tweet? Pownce? Plurk? Plurk.
I’ve fallen off the Twitter bandwagon. At first I stopped twittering in righteous indignation at the amount of time that the site goes down, or shuts down services because it’s overloaded. If I’m using something to stay in touch with people, I want it to work reliably. Otherwise, what’s the point? I have an account …
Rust Belt Bloggers Summit
Crusty Rusty Bolts originally uploaded by mikeyexists Friday evening and Saturday, bloggers from Pittsburgh, Erie, Youngstown, Cleveland, Buffalo, and other cities in this region will be meeting for the first Rust Belt Bloggers Summit. Our primary goal — or at least, my view of our goal — is to meet and learn about each other …
“The Wonder Bread Years” at City Theatre, with special promo for bloggers
Remember when I explained how to see a play? If you haven’t already used those five easy steps to see Bust (and you still have another week or so, so get going on that), you might try them out on a new show opening next month at City Theatre: The Wonder Bread Years. City Theatre …
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Pittsburgh BlogFest 14
Urban Flowers, originally uploaded by brunkfordbraun. I received another poem from Carlos the Mack’rel: Oh, Cindy-Red or Cindy-Black (That Closkey hair, I can’t keep track) Tell me, tell me, tell me true Just when is our blogfest due? I can not wait til when it’s time As you can see this rhyme’s a crime my …
Dream house
I’m working on a couple of things right now: End of the month, so there’s billable work to finish and bill; grant applications and proposals to thoughtfully complete and send; project work to push diligently ahead with; and administrivia. Also a blog post I keep trying to write about blogs, rules vs. freedom, social media …
Envelopes full of history
Letters from my grandfather to his parents, originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey. I have in front of me a letter in my grandfather’s handwriting, postmarked July 18, 1944. It begins like this: Dear Folks, There is not much time now. Just one week from to-morrow, Tuesday, I report. I entend (sic) to quit work on Wednesday …
Stories of Pittsburgh
Pittsburghers: The eyes of the nation are upon us. It’s time to stand up and share what we think of our town and our region. The Primary Pittsburgh Project is a “5-day blogging experiment to invite the Burghosphere to re-tell the primary story story of Pittsburgh to the rest of the country.” Here’s the scoop: …
Pittsburgh bloggers wanted
Lindsay Patross of I Heart Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Metroblogging writes: I am looking to recruit some new writers to Pittsburgh Metroblogging – http://pittsburgh.metblogs.com Pittsburgh Metblog is part of the international network of Metroblogs – so there is access to authors of blogs around the world. We are looking to recruit regular bloggers who can post …
Let me tell you a story
Photo from City Theatre’s production of Flight, March 2008. Pictured center: Joshua Elijah Reese and DeWanda Wise. Photo credit: John Schisler. In Flight, Charlayne Woodard’s play (recently produced, brilliantly, at City Theatre), the characters are all slaves living on a plantation near Savannah, Georgia in 1858. They are forbidden to learn to read or write, …