Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Gone fishin'

I Love Lucy #7Hard work and no horseplay make Bully a very dull little stuffed animal indeed, so I'm off to the Great White Pacific Northwest to kick up my hooves in a woodland cabin for the next week an' a half, sans TV, sans phone, sans DVDs, sans internet, to get in touch with my inner beans and to just relax. That means I'm "off the grid" as the mountain men say, so have fun and play nice with the World Wide Web while I'm gone. (Don't split it in half!) I'll be back with the usual weekend features on Saturday, September 15. (For those of you who follow "A Wodehouse a Week" and are worried I'm gonna get off schedule, I'll plug #20 into 9/10, but only after I get home.) Please play nice, enjoy the cake, stay off the goofballs, and as always, be good to yourselves and others. See you on 9/15!


2 comments:

  1. Please excuse my posting this as a comment
    but I could not find your email address.
    My name is Harry Mendryk and I post the Simon
    and Kirby blog
    (http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/).
    The subject of my writing is much narrower
    then the comic book history that I try to follow
    in the blogosphere. There are an incredible number
    of bloggers writing about comics but it is so
    overwhelmingly about recent comics. I thought
    that if I was having trouble keeping track of
    the comic history posts, others may be having a
    similar difficulty. It occurred to me to borrow
    an idea that I have seen with other blogging
    subjects, that is the carnival. So I thought
    I would approach some of you and see if there
    was enough support to make a go of this. I will
    outline how I think this could work, but I am
    open to alternate suggestions.

    Perhaps a good name for this particular carnival
    would be something like "Yellow Pages". I would
    like to keep this to historical writings on comic
    books, so I suggest we exclude posts on comics that
    are still in print. "Yellow Pages" would be done
    once a month with the host being rotated among
    the participants. About a week before hand
    people would announce on their blogs the up and
    coming "Yellow Pages" issue, indicate who the
    current host was, and invite people to submit.
    People would submit to the host a link to one of
    their own blog posts from the previous month.
    Which post to use is totally up to the submitter.
    I really think the post should be limited to the
    previous month to keep it all pretty current. But
    members need not submit every month if they do
    not have anything appropriate. The host would then
    collect all the submissions and on the issue date
    post a blog entry supplying all the links preferably
    with some appropriate comments so readers know
    what to expect from each link. It would also be
    nice if all members would also post in their blogs
    an announcement of the current issue and a link
    to the host blog entry.

    I would like to host the first issue, provided that
    there is enough interest in this idea. So are you
    interested? If so please contact me at hmendryk at
    yahoo dot com. (I may have to post this as comment
    on a blog so I ask you to replace the 'at' and 'dot'
    with the appropriate characters).

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  2. Hope you're enjoying your trip, Bully. There's a couple of pics posted just for you at my blog.

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