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Entries Tagged as 'Journal'

Capes and Crumpets with Roz Kaveney

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 4th, 2008 at 1:18 am

Speaking of people on my blogroll: Pop culture critic, blogger, and transgendered activist extroardinaire Roz Kaveney of Silence Exile and Crumpets was just in town, promoting her new book Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films — which I’m hoping to crack the covers of eventually.
Roz is brilliant at analyzing the various mechanics and […]

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Tags: Blogroll · Culture · Blogs · Journal · Chicago · LGBT · TV · Books · Superheroes · Lit · Science Fiction · Doctor Who · Transgender

After Hours Press Poetry Reading at DvA Gallery, Friday May 2

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 1st, 2008 at 3:00 am

I’ve been meaning to mention for ages now that I have a poem in the latest issue of the Chicago poetry journal After Hours … and I’ll be reading it in public this Friday night.
I’ve always been really bad about actually submitting my poems for publication — I always think, here I am fussing around […]

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Tags: News · Culture · Journal · Chicago · Poetry · Performance · Lit

With Six You Get Blogroll

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:46 pm

So yesterdoodle, as part of my ongoing efforts to get the Ocelopotamus back to full health and vitality, I finally got around to overhauling the blogroll (that’s that tall snaky thing over to the right that looks like a list of nonsensical words and phrases!) with some links that I’ve been accumulonimbusing for a stoat’s […]

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Tags: Blogroll · Meta · Politics · Culture · Music · Blogs · Journal · Chicago · New Wave · Internet · Books · Oobleck · Neo-Futurists · Animals & Environment · Mike Scott & The Waterboys · Even in Blackouts · Modern Rock · Vegetarian & Vegan

Andy White at the Celtic Knot, 3/30/08: Follow-Up

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 6th, 2008 at 5:21 am

Well, the Andy White show I posted about last Sunday was lovely. It was a shockingly intimate setting, a cozy and beautifully decorated back room at the Celtic Knot where Andy played for a group of about 20 of us, and he was just as charming and entertaining as any Andy fan would expect.
He […]

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Tags: Culture · Music · Journal · Chicago · Performance · Lit · Mike Scott & The Waterboys · Ireland · Celtic · Folk-Rock · Reviews

Shopping Cart Blanch

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 4th, 2008 at 7:54 pm

I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s experiencing sticker shock over my grocery shopping bills.
Across the United States, consumers like Norris are finding that grocery shopping has become a sobering experience as their budgets fail to keep pace with food costs.
Reuters reporters visited Wal-Mart stores in Romeoville, Illinois, Secaucus, New Jersey and Santa Clarita, […]

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Tags: News · Politics · Food · Journal · Organic Food · The Economy, Stupid

Bookshelves vs. Blogging: Cage Match

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 2nd, 2008 at 5:30 pm

So, on the one hand, I feel just awforrible that Ocelopotamus has gone so quiet … the latest two-week outage being just one bead on a five-month string of periods of woeful neglect. Poor kittyderm.
And I have all these wonderful links and jottings and things I’d like to post, if I can just find the […]

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Tags: Meta · Journal · Books

Goodbye, Mr. Blue

Posted by Ocelopotamus on February 9th, 2008 at 6:09 am

For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
and tell sad stories of the death of cats …
— Shakespeare, Richard II
(if it had been about cats)
I come not to bury Mr. Blue, but to praise him.
— Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
(if it had been about Mr. Blue instead of J.C.)
… and our little life is rounded […]

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Tags: Meta · Cats · Journal · Pet Food · Pets · Essays · Kiwi · Mr. Blue

May, 2005: The Arrival of Mr. Blue (and Kiwi, too)

Posted by Ocelopotamus on February 9th, 2008 at 3:15 am

About two and a half years ago, I adopted a big blue talkative cat named Mr. Blue (aka Barabajagal). Below the jump is the email I sent out to my cat-friendliest friends announcing his arrival.
I didn’t have a blog in those days, but I wanted to post it here to document it, and provide […]

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Tags: Music · Cats · Journal · Folk-Rock · Pets · 60s Pop · Kiwi · Mr. Blue

The Space, The Face, and Buddy Cole

Posted by Ocelopotamus on January 27th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

I’m on deadline tonight with a major deliverable (ahhrrrrr! I just used the word deliverable!) so here I am careening into another week with major blogging operations on hold.
Well, maybe after tomorrow I can rev the OcPot up again. In the meantime, I will say this: Now that I’ve been on Facebook a little […]

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Tags: Meta · Music · Journal · Comedy · Internet · Mike Scott & The Waterboys · Kids in the Hall · Online Communities · Online Networking

LinkingIn at CreativePro

Posted by Ocelopotamus on January 18th, 2008 at 8:15 am

I have an article published on CreativePro.com this morning, called “The Fine Art of Linking In.” (It’s the featured article for Friday, January 18, 2008.)
That was one of the projects that’s been keeping me busy the last few weeks.
As the title suggests, it’s basically tips for using LinkedIn effectively — how to spiff up your […]

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Tags: Culture · Tech · Blogs · Journal · Internet · Business · Essays · Online Networking

Mid-January Frosted Mini-Roundup

Posted by Ocelopotamus on January 17th, 2008 at 10:58 am

I’m starting to worry that Ocelopotamus has become like that stock old-man character from sitcoms and things, who falls asleep for a while and then wakes up sputtering and tries to pick the conversation up wherever it was five minutes ago, as if no time has passed.
On the other hand, it’s heartening that I […]

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Tags: Meta · News · Politics · Culture · Music · Tech · Blogs · Cats · Journal · LGBT · Comedy · New Wave · Democrats · Internet · Barack Obama · Theater · Comics · John McCain · Cardy Pop · Adobe · Crowded House · Video · 2008 Election · Modern Rock · Rudy Giuliani · Mitt Romney · Online Communities · Roundup · The Economy, Stupid · Mr. Blue · Online Networking · Homophobia · Billy Bragg

La Vie en Rose

Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 19th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

In Florida a 7-year-old was covered in bruises after a man (seemingly his father, but the story isn’t clear on the relationship) beat him up and whipped him with a belt.
His crime? Giving himself a manicure. A pink manicure.
A man was arrested on child abuse charges after he beat a 7-year-old boy with a […]

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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Journal · LGBT · TV · Human Rights · Hate Crimes · Gender · Homophobia · Transgender

Tea-Upon-Ice Brews Up a Wiki-Firestorm!

Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 14th, 2007 at 10:18 am

What a thing to wake up to! Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s post on the subject of tea-upon-ice, Grendel has drawn my attention to the fact that some unknown reader of this weblog has now created a Wikipedia entry for tea-upon-ice.
I am gobsmacked, flabbergasted, tiggywinkled, prattpaddled, chunderflapped, pussintuttled, argybarged, and various other polysyllabic […]

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Tags: Meta · News · Culture · Blogs · Journal · Tea · Internet · Cooking and Recipes

A Note on the Text of the 10-Second Interview

Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 13th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

Grendel from Earthgoat, always an attentive and keen-eyed reader, has written to gently chide me for conforming to a certain lowbrow usage in my 10-Second Interview post.
The question in question would be this one:
Pepsi or Coke?
Iced peppermint green tea.
Since that post and its comments are a fair way down the page at this point, […]

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Tags: Culture · Blogs · Journal · Internet · Language · Restaurants · Cooking and Recipes