As 2009 gets under way, I'm finding myself really interested in writing about food and generally mixing it up in the blogging world. However, I am also starting a new semester of grad school (only one class, really) and I've got to face facts: when I'm blogging, I should be studying (or paying attention to Karen and Jasper). So, I plan to, and probably will, decrease my attention to this site to some degree. I know, just when I got mentioned in RVA Mag.
But wait! This really could just be one of those overcompensations, like Jim Duncan forecasting a disastrous snowstorm headed straight for Richmond (translate: just covering my... and setting reasonable expectations). I typically use blogging as a form of procrastination during school time. This class has me scheduled to write four 20 page papers, with 30 references each, and eight citations per page, plus an average of 5 chapters of reading per week (plus all those scholarly articles I'll be "referencing"). Nonetheless, the devious angels of my nature will inevitably compel me to blog. And when that happens, it will be stream of consciousness style-sloppy (sorry ladies) and full of therapeutic venting. What's new, right? Have I ever been anything but temperamental?
Despite all of this, I do plan to focus my blogging a bit more by improving my coverage of the areas that receive the most votes in my survey (currently, "cheap restaurants" - vote now). But I won't be confined by public opinion. With the time crunch, I'll probably go with more pictures and less verbosity (yeah right, no promises there). And then there's micro-blogging (see my Twitter updates on the right). Maybe you all can help me find some people who make good tweets and I can use them as my inspiration.
I'd also like to convene (or at least attend) some face-to-face gatherings and break through the barriers that this whole "online community" idea minimally addresses. Some of this will be neighborhood centered or relatively private, but some of my other ideas include wide-open invitations. For instance, Karen and I are lamenting the number of cookbooks that we've stockpiled. So, we'll be giving a couple piles of them away. Hopefully, that will mean new and old friends (maybe some of you anonymous readers) coming over IN PERSON, some munchies and drinks, and books going home with people who will appreciate them more than we were able to.
Okay, enough with my predictions. I've got several blog posts in the works. Hopefully, they'll make it up here soon.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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List of cookbooks, please.
ReplyDeleteWell.... i don't mind just as long as you have more time for drinking fine spirits and praying on poor innocent mollusks.
ReplyDeletetb: so demanding. Where's the sentimentality? We haven't compiled the books yet and I'm thinking it'll probably be a surprise for whomever shows up (still no date set). I do have Batali's, "Babbo," but it's expensive and should probably go to ebay. The book seems to revolve around wild boar thorax, ostrich heel tendon, and other esoteric animal parts. Not our style. But there's plenty of other good stuff.
ReplyDeleteKoolz: I wish I had blogged the last mollusk escapade. There were some bad clams involved (tasted like sewage). I almost had to order more spirits to keep the bacteria in check. Lemme know when it's happening next.