Here in Ann Arbor we have a wonderful summer festival called Top of the Park. Every night for three weeks in a row (!) there is live music until it gets dark. Then they raise a big movie screen and show a movie like The Wizard of Oz. And it’s all completely free, and everyone comes down and mills around and runs into old friends and gets some food and enjoys the music. And tonight on the “Grassrootz Stage” guess who played their first gig? Rock Band 101!
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Sunday Salon: Comfort zones
Greetings, Saloners!
I believe I’ve missed two or three Sundays in a row. All kinds of busyness, including one kid’s birthday, another’s trip to camp, rolling out a new theme for my blog (come see it!)… and so on and so forth and all the rest, et cetera et cetera et cetera. (That was a quote from a movie; did you recognize it?) Anyway, I’m very glad to be back, and I look forward to finding out what y’all have been up to. :)
Introducing Bookworm 8
Hey, if you’re reading this in a feed reader click on the link and come see my new theme!
Yeah, I’m a restless soul, always looking for change and variety. I suffer from wanderlust, and I can never be happy with the same blogskin for more than a few months. This new version of Bookworm has bright colors, a one hundred percent liquid layout AND rounded corners (requiring a little extra markup but who cares), and an old-fashioned sidebar with everthing in it. Although I do prefer the cleaner look of blogs that have links & archives tucked away on separate pages, or sidebars down on the bottom, I’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion that it really is better to have that stuff where people can see it right away. (Do you agree? Disagree?)
The Position, by Meg Wolitzer
I’ve known quite a few people who felt that their parents’ professions placed an unfair burden on them, like the son of a Methodist minister I dated in college. In fact, with a professor of clinical psychology for a dad and a piano teacher for a mom, I may even have complained about it myself on one or two occasions. ;-)
Finding Nouf
I was a little surprised when I got the email from the library saying this book I’d requested, Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris, had finally come in. I didn’t remember requesting it, and it didn’t sound like the kind of book I’d normally seek out. First, it has one of those two-word titles where the first is a transitive verb ending in ing and the second is a proper noun: I have an irrational prejudice against those. And second, it’s a murder mystery, not my favorite genre. I’m just not that interested in figuring out who dun it. I used to love mysteries, but now… meh. So, two strikes against this book. Whatever review I read on someone’s blog somewhere that led me to put this on hold must have been a really good one.
Weekend at music camp
One of the reasons I’ve been absent from the blogosphere lately is that I spent the last few days with my daughter at Suzuki violin camp. It was quite a roller coaster of a weekend, let me tell you.
Get Firefox
I’ll be downloading it tomorrow. I hope you will too!
[6/17 Update: Successfully downloaded & installed. Don't care for the new look, but it works fine.]
