It’s been an eerily quiet week in the local blogosphere, and while there have been posts, relatively few of them are about anything particularly local. In fact, once you separate the local bloggers who are talking about national politics, the religious bloggers who are talking about their view of something in the Bible, and the mommybloggers who are talking about — you know — mom stuff, what’s left is a handful of posts by the more dedicated local blogging set. It’s good we have them.
Trees, you say? What a dandy subject for one of these fancy new electronic Daguerreotypes.
My son had another fun run event yesterday. This time it was held at Wofford College’s soccer stadium here in town. I liked the light on this one tree as we walked past it. There are still some Autumn colors hanging on to the branches.
Midget on the Edge blogger Dani is rarely at a loss for words when it comes to the topic of her marriage. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t like to mix it up a little with some poetry now and again.
Six years ago today, a boy took a girl to the movies.
It was their senior year of high school.
It wasn’t their first date. They had had a few before when they were freshmen and sophomores.
But this was the one.
He bought her ticket.
He bought her popcorn and a soda.
He let her have the aisle seat.
They locked arms throughout the whole movie, even if her arm was in pain the whole time. She was too scared to say anything.
They held hands leaving.
He held open the car door.
The listened to Nintendo music on the way to her house.
He walked her to the front door.
He kissed her goodnight, even though the said they wouldn’t.
Then…
You’ll have to visit the blog if you want to know how this ends.
Over at Some Carolinian, Scott L. West is concerned that you’re not eating enough. Here comes the science …
On Monday, the US Department of Agriculture released a report Household Food Security in the United States, which uses polite language to describe hunger as an American condition.
According to the report, people experience food insecurity when “food intake … was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food”
Essentially, this means you are going hungry. More people went hungry in 2008 than ten years before. This is true nationally. South Carolinians not only fell below the national average, they also experienced more deterioration in food security than the nation as a whole. Looking at the states on this list, its easy to see the South is overrepresented and maybe easy to understand given its history of income inequality, rural poverty, recent textile-deindustrialization and racial discrimination. In light of that, it’s surprising to see states like Ohio, Iowa, New Mexico, Kansas, Arizona and Oklahoma here in the top sixteen.
And over at Rigor Mortis Shuffle, T. Boettner has some thoughts for you fad-hopping dopes who gave up on the majesty of audio cassettes the moment someone came along with a shiny compact disk.
I can’t even begin to enumerate how often someone has approached me at a show, picked up a release or two and remarked, “oh my god, they still make cassettes?”
…cue the disappointment, oncoming thought “you aren’t going to be a customer.”
… For those of you shouting, “see, CDs are better,” take a CD and a cassette tape out to your driveway or the street or somewhere with gravel. Drop them repeatedly; let’s say ten times each. Now, tell me which one still plays flawlessly. No, seriously, I can wait.
That’s it for this week. If I missed an interesting local blog post, feel free to mention it in the comments. And if you’re interested in finding out more about the local blog scene — this particularly slow week not really being the best introduction — please check out SparkleCityBlogs.com, which aims to be a central hub for all local blogs and bloggers.
Steve Shanafelt
tons of surrealistic eye candy at
http://spartan-chang.livejournal.com/
..don’t cha know.
Yeah. I figure that there are quite a few people already blogging about serious/important topics. I just want to post some nice photographs and talk a little about how or why I took them.
To me, that’s a lot more interesting. I mean, there are tens of thousands of bloggers talking about “serious” topics, but for the most part they’re rehashing information that the mainstream media has already dissected. What you’re reading at that point is people reacting to talking points as much as really contributing something original.
But, if you wanted to get a shot of the Reedy River at night (check 4P Photoblog for that one as well), there’s really only a handful of places you can go on the entire internet. Same with stuff like Dani’s poem or Thomas talking about cassette tapes. To me, that’s the beauty of local blogging; getting content you literally can’t find anywhere else.