Esther Lederberg, an important microbiologist, has her death noted in what appears to be some sort of AP round-up of notable (dead) women of the week. So, we go from microbiologist to sculptor to preservationist to woman who lost a tremendous amount of weight. One of these things isn’t like the others…
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The wind outside is crazy wild today. A group of school children on a field trip downtown went by a few minutes ago, holding hands and shrieking, surrounded by flying leaves. The temperature has already dropped about 20 degrees since this morning. If this were a movie, Dennis Quaid would be getting out the snowshoes right about now.
Gobal climate change is scary.
But I believe we’ll be disappointed yet again on the point of snow. We’ll probably get ice instead or just really nasty conditions. Yesterday, I posted a picture of Christopher’s lunch, today I’m talking about the weather. What are the other blogger cliches I need to fill?
And, yes, feeling considerably better today, so the weird woozy malady of yesterday appears to have been a viral thing that is passing quickly. Fingers crossed, anyway.
Mr. Matos, that is. From the NYT:
This week Idolator, a newish music blog owned by Gawker Media, seized on the outrage and disappointment felt by critics around the country who saw Mr. Christgau — and Chuck Eddy, the Voice music editor, who was dismissed in April — as a force of credibility and journalistic continuity, by announcing its own poll, Jackin’ Pop.
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The new survey will be organized by Michaelangelo Matos, a well regarded freelance writer who has served as music editor at the Voice-owned Seattle Weekly. (When New Times Media acquired Village Voice Media, it also took its name.) Jackin’ Pop will have some new technological bells and whistles, like demographic breakdowns of ballots, but will largely be modeled after Pazz & Jop. Mr. Matos, 31, said it was as much a homage to that model as a protest against the new Voice.
“Pazz & Jop has always been about intellectual music coverage,” he said. “There are people at The Voice doing good, smart work, but the overall culture does not smile upon it being particularly thoughtful.”
Go team good, smart, and intellectual!
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I would really, really, really appreciate it if I did not catch every bug going around during you.
Love,
your swim-headed BondGirl
p.s. Don’t expect much from me until this passes. Also, please ignore any comments where I may have said things backward or spelled something wrong. I have learned my lesson. No more commenting until normalized.
Sometimes a cat needs a bicycle.
Scott and Justine’s luggage makes Emma CRAZY with the yawn.
My husband’s freakish freak lunch of my leftover Annie’s mac and cheese with the freakish addition of mustard, pita chips, and James Baldwin. That ain’t right.
I lay down now and watch bad television.
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So, this is it for now, though I do still want to make a pretty banner. If you really, really, really hate it leave your godlike technical suggestions of how to make it better below. I ixnayed some of the sidebar content as well, to clean things up a bit — if you actually miss any of what’s gone, let me know.
Regular program set to resume.
I woke up with a terrible head cold. I blame the pink.
Did I mention this is the WORST form of procrastination? I’m too tired and head explodey to mess around with it anymore, so this is what you get for now. Just pretend it reminds you of the ocean or something.
It’ll probably be the weekend before I have time to fiddle with it more and attempt to come up with a pretty banner — or redeem it in some way. But, by god, that middle column is wider. If nothing else (and honestly, nothing else I attempted even came close to working). I had no idea you all hated Strawberry Shortcake. Have you not heard the story of how I learned to dive because of Strawberry Shortcake?
Obviously not.
Good night and no template reordering/color code dreams. Why does Typepad hate me so?
Updated: Screw it. I just picked a simple template. The middle column maybe looks wider. Maybe. Still not happy.
I’m monkeying around with the template — with briefly disastrous results. (I’m attempting to make a the middle column flush left and wider and the two sidebars both on the right, which isn’t as easy as I’d hoped.)
Updated: Grrrrr. CSS is incomprehensible to me! I can’t even figure out how to add a background image so it’s actually beneath the columns of the page.
ReUpdated: Don’t freak — none of this is final yet. And things may be appearing and reappearing and disappearing for awhile.