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January 28, 2006

Shout-Outs

Yeah, I know it's a dated phrase. Shut up.

Just wanted to throw out a couple of blogs for recognition... first of all, "Reports From Abroad" is a blog by a college junior who is the son of a friend of mine at work and the brother of frequent commenter and occasional Mudge-ripper Sarah (more on her in a second). Daniel is spending the first eight months of 2006 studying abroad in Germany. His blog's a fun read -- beyond the college experience and the living abroad experience, you also get a great set of trial-and-error reviews of German beer. Good read from a perceptive guy; worth your time checking out.

As for Sarah, she's gotten herself a radio show at her college. Sarah and I have plenty of playful banter about her taste in music -- her father (who is a friend and reads this blog occasionally) has warped her mind with too much 60s and 70s stuff ;-) , and she and I will never agree on Led Zeppelin (I'm right, by the way... they're overrated, drug-addled wailers) -- but all joking aside, it's a hell of an accomplishment for anyone to get their own radio show... and at 18, I think I'd have been in absolute heaven if someone gave me a few hours on the air every week to inflict myself upon the world. Sarah, having your own show is a hell of a thing... good for you, and lemme know when you get some of your programming streaming on the Web.

And last but not least, I wanted to call your attention to someone who I blogrolled a few weeks ago, but whose writing is deserving of a special call-out. Jill over at JillWrites is a really thoughtful writer (even teaches writing) and is a pretty creative person. I've really enjoyed reading her stuff in the last few weeks. If you think of me as something like a Farelly Brothers/Tim Robbins mix (except not as funny as them and not as satirical as him), Jill's something like a Nora Ephron -- I get the sense that someday she's going to write something like a hippier, far sexier version of "When Harry Met Sally." In other words, she's a lot more thoughtful and nuanced than I am (me of the lead feather-style bludgeoning with my points). I enjoy her, and think you will too.

Posted by Christopher on January 28, 2006 12:01 PM

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aw shucks, you made me blush. And thanks for the shout out to my brother's blog.

Posted by: Sarah at January 29, 2006 01:42 PM

and p.s. we don't web stream, because...well we don't.

Posted by: Sarah at January 29, 2006 02:09 PM

I think I'm going to change my blog to "reports from a broad". Then I can steal some good google searches that are like.. mis-spaced.

Posted by: thebeav at January 29, 2006 10:25 PM