Jots: Tuesday 22 August 06
AppLit Upper Tier Speakers
I think I'll try to get down for the Friday programs at the Emory & Henry Literary Festival. Take a look at the events and speakers. If you're at all interested in Appalachian Literature, it might be worth your time. I'm particularly interested in hearing "Nature, Place, and the Appalachian Writer" Panelists: Maggie Anderson, Jeff Daniel Marion, Robert Morgan, Ron Rash
One Thing to Another
When I was doing the taping of the Studio Virginia interview at WVTF back in June, I mentioned to Gene Marrano that he really should come interview David St. Lawrence at the Jacksonville Center. He did, and this is one nice thing that came out of that: an article in Blue Ridge Business Journal called Green Floyd.
Culturally-embedded Character Flaws
Weight gain, says Dr Michael Booth, is a physical portrait of consumerism, an externalisation of our value system. "We do need to do something about 'I will give myself pleasure whenever and however I please and not think about the consequences'" he says. "It's a problem that comes with greater and greater wealth. We see the world as the range of things available to us. Virtually anything is there for the taking. We've lost the notion that we should be denied anything." Our Cities Are Killing Us
Threesome:Come to the Blog Side, Luke
Saturday at the Franklin BookFest in Rocky Mount, Colleen and I tried to lure Jim Minick into the Blogosphere and he would have none of it. Yet. We're still working on him. Resistance is futile.
Burning the Beans
Global Warming Could Slam Food Supply ~ Suppose the dinner on your table last night had cost 20 times what it did? Or 50 times as much? Scientists say global warming very likely has something like that in store in the coming decades. ABC News
Bad Guy Nabbed
They captured the young killer in Blacksburg yesterday afternoon, only a few hundred yards from where he had killed his second victim earlier in the day. The whole region breathes a sigh of relief, with the exception of those children and wives who were without a father and husband at the end of the day for having met this violent, doomed gunman.