Merlin Mann and Our Big Blog Dream

art.books.children just decided what it wants to be when it grows up...

yes, it's our big dream to be a blog that Merlin would like...

Seriously. 

This Mr. Mann, he knows his stuff.

Okay, so the big day is probably pretty far off, and we got a lotta work to do, but...hey, a girl can dream, right?

I must go now, and think of finely crafted paragraphs, attention times interest, and other important blog-o-riffic things Merlin talks about. 

Check out 43 Folders, also, if you haven't already. Good Stuff.

"Sorry, but reading is not dying." Posted by Hudson, August 16th on Paper Cuts

Hiphiphooray for Hudson, who submitted the above quote in the comments section of the NYT's bookblog, Paper Cuts (which is worth spending more than a few minutes on, if you haven't already).

The whole enchilada is good skimming ("The Art of Reading"), but my cheer goes out to Hudson's clear words:

Reading has taken an oral swerve in contemporary culture that the literary set hasn't quite found the answer to, from books-on-tape, to YouTube, to open mic. All of which, I am happy to say, fits within the larger context of the solitary reader and the text, whether on screen or printed page. And, no, the ink does not smear.

Go Hudson! Thanks for putting it out there. Couldn't have said it better myself, 'tho I've tried to, numerous times, in this here little blog.

Hip Writer Mama: Vivian Lee Mahoney

In addition to the (amazing, to me) fact that Vivian Lee was my mother's maiden name, I am in awe of the encyclopedic scope of Vivian Lee Mahoney's astonishing blog/blogroll. I plan to put aside the better part of several days, in the near future, to check out--in detail--this uber-cool and very hip writermama.

More Good Stuff, courtesy of Vivian Lee. Again, what's not to love?