I am sure that most of us have heard the phrase “When God closes a door, he often opens a window.” In some ways I feel like that is what happening as I write my final Miss Mom column for the Spartanburg Spark. Steve Shanafelt found my little blog just under two years ago, and [...]
I started blogging back in 2003 just before Google bought up Blogger. I suppose I started for the same reasons many people start blogging. I thought I had something to say, and I hoped that others might find what I had to say interesting. My early posts were political, but rarely local, and for a [...]
Miss Mom: Death of the Sushi Virgin
I am what you may call a culinary naivete. My range of the foods I have experienced in my life is rather limited for several reasons, texture, taste, appearance and smell, or in my case a complete lack of that one of the basic five senses. If I go to a restaurant I tend to [...]
Video: Spartanburg City Council for Monday, August 9, 2010
Did you miss last night’s Spartanburg City Council meeting? Well, let us show you what you missed. Spartanburg City Council: August 9, 2010 from SpartanburgSpark on Vimeo.
Want to see what Spartanburg City Council will be taking on in Monday’s meeting? We’ve got you covered. I. Invocation II.Pledge of Allegiance III.Approval of Minutes of the July 12, 2010 City Council Meeting IV.Approval of Agenda of the July 26, 2010 City Council Meeting V. Public Comment *Citizen Appearance forms are available at the [...]
This week, we change it up a bit. Instead of local politics, we’re talking local music with internationally known, Spartanburg-based noise musician Thomas Boettner (aka local noise music solo project Fire Island, AK). Interview (arguably) conducted by Daniel Hagerman, with guest assist by Steve Shanafelt. And unlike a lot of our podcasts, this is kind [...]
It’s Thursday again! It’s that magical time of the week when (most of us, at least) can stop thinking about work, and can start thinking about relaxing just a bit. And with an ever-increasing amount of stuff to do in and around Spartanburg, there’s plenty to share. Of course, it’s no fun to be the [...]
Originally, this was posted to my old blog site with no intention of having it on the Spark, but I’ve decided to cross-post it here because it is very much relevant to what’s going on with the site. The Spartanburg Spark has been one of the most amazing things that I’ve ever been a part [...]
If you’ve never had something important to you become grist for the rumor mill, I can only hope that you do experience at some point in your life. It changes your perspective in a fundamental way, because you not only get to hear rumors, you also get a rare window into the often hidden biases [...]
Once upon a time there was a little 5 year old girl standing in the wings of a stage eagerly awaiting her first performance of her very first dance recital. All year she had attended class, learning basic steps in ballet and tap, and had practiced her dance steps in the living room of her [...]
What has happened in the Spartanburg online video scene in the last week? It’s been a bit slow, actually, but there have been a few interesting posts. Let’s take a look. Jason and KrazyJason from Cackalackymovies bring us up to speed on their recent movie-hunting trip to Kannapolis, NC. If you love cheap movie deals, [...]
Once again, I’m working on the back-end of the site to enable us to do some nifty new things. And, once again, you can expect the site itself to act all weird and wonky while I’m mucking about in the HTML, CSS and PHP over the weekend. So don’t panic if the site goes down [...]
It’s been a while since we’ve had a weekending post, and since we’ve run into a technical glitch with this week’s podcast, let’s make the best of it. As you may recall, the basic idea is this: Tell us how you’re planning on spending your weekend so the rest of us can steal all of [...]
All good things must come to an end. I’ve never really liked that old cliche, because it totally ignores the fact that all bad things must come to an end too. I much prefer something like Heraclitus’ “You cannot step twice into the same river.” It just seems more even-handed. Whether the river was good [...]
This week, the Big Idea is mind-blowingly simple: I’ve heard the words “there’s nothing to do downtown” fall out of way too many people’s mouths of recent, and I’m getting tired of it. So here’s the score: Take a look at what five minutes of looking uncovered happening tomorrow right in the heart of downtown. [...]
Did you miss last night’s city council meeting? Have no fear, because we’ve got you covered. Spartanburg City Council July 12, 2010 from SpartanburgSpark on Vimeo.
I freely admit that poetry is not my strong suit, yet I am going to give you a poem anyway. I will warn you, it is full of heart felt mush, inspired by spending the day babysitting my two favorite very small people. Despite it’s lack of perfect rhythm and barely adequate rhyme, I’m subjecting [...]
