…when our clan makes its way up to beautiful northern Michigan for a week at family camp.
Here is my post from two summers ago — I believe this post gets more search engine hits than any other I’ve ever written. It seems there are lots of people who want to know what “twisted box stitch” looks like, and even more who apparently are looking for material for their own “how I spent my summer vacation” essay.
If you missed my previous post about Philippe Halsman’s Jump Book, the idea for this meme is to take photos of people in mid-air. I brought my camera to a Fourth of July barbecue at the home of my sister’s in-laws to see what I could do to emulate Halsman.
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!
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.
Greetings, Saloners! I hope you had a good week of reading. This week I finished one, started another (well, started two, actually), and had a couple of reading experiences that were a pleasant change from the usual.
This week’s challenge is to encourage other bloggers who have reviewed the same book you did to send you a link to their post; then you include those links at the bottom of your review. My first thought was: what a great idea! And my second thought was: what a housekeeping nightmare! I imagined myself compiling a list of all the books I’ve ever reviewed and posting them on a separate page. That would make it really easy for other bloggers to tell at a glance whether we have any in common. So I clicked on my own “reviews” category archive, and my goodness, what a mess.
So, here in Ann Arbor Mich we have our very own Rock Band School. It’s run by this guy, whom I’ve known since he was a little kid running around with my best friend’s younger brother. Rock Band School is pretty neat. They offer private and group (i.e. rock band) lessons. They arrange gigs, they have workshops on how to promote your band, how to set up your stuff on the stage, how to feed the band for $10 (“nutrition for starving musicians”) and how to withstand what they euphemistically call “the pressures” of being a rock star. :)
