Ropes of Sand

Elizabeth McCracken in NYT Magazine

The Bell of the Barbell
Elizabeth also wrote for this issue last year...

Happy New Year, all.

posted by VVG @ Sunday, December 31, 2006 0 comments

Hype Machine

Those who love music... I wanted to share a recent discovery:

The Hype Machine!

This is GREAT. It is a music blog aggregator--that is, it collects embedded MP3s from music blogs. A great way to discover new music, etc. etc. MANY fun hours, good new music to write to. You can also run searches and it will aggregate music by your favorite group... hard-to-find live sessions, whatever the dude who shares your taste and blogs about it has found. (So far, my favorite stuff is on this German blog. I have no idea what he's saying, but really excellent taste.)

Happy holidays and general seasonal whatnot to all.

-Sugi

posted by VVG @ Monday, December 25, 2006 1 comments

Blogger Update

Oh, dear.

I noticed that most of our contributors are gone today.

That can't be good.

My guess is that it has something to do with the upgrade to blogger beta that has been happening over the past few days. In order to blog on blogger, I think you need to have a google account now. More on this when it becomes more clear.

Okay: From the Help Desk
Why is Blogger switching to Google Accounts?
Google Accounts are better protected against fraud, impersonation, and abuse. In addition, by switching your Blogger account to a Google Account, it will be easier to use other Google services like AdWords, Google Groups, Google Alerts, Froogle Shopping List, Personalized Search, your Personalized Homepage, Google Answers, and many future Google services.

Everyone, please come on over. We want you back. Can't do without you.

posted by SAS @ Wednesday, December 13, 2006 14 comments

McEwan, Atonement, Plagiarism... What?

Novelists Defend One of Their Own Against a Plagiarism Charge

interesting who rose to defend him!

posted by VVG @ Thursday, December 07, 2006 1 comments

Yiyun!

Listen everybody: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers has won the Guardian first book Award!

Read a nice little bit about it here: Guardian

posted by SAS @ Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2 comments

The People Who Graduated After We Graduated

Now have a blog. Visit it here: Oughtsix
And it's now in our sidebar too.

posted by SAS @ Tuesday, December 05, 2006 0 comments