I totally forgot I’d registered for this site an eon ago until I saw that Jonah had posted one of the maps of his travels.
Anyway, here are the places I’ve visited, as of August 2, 2005, not including ones where I just drove straight through (sorry, Massachusetts):
States lived in or visited: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maine (Hi, Kelly and George!), Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey (Hi, Kris!), New Mexico, New York, North Carolina (Hi, Kathy!), Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia (Hi, Lee!) and Wisconsin.
Countries lived in or visited: the United States, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
¡Fascinación!
The San Bernardino County Sun is now hiring entry level reporter positions. Their JournalismJobs.com ad reads in part:
The Sun in San Bernardino has reporter openings to staff community news sections. The Sun, with a daily circulation of more than 70,000, is seeking energetic candidates who want to report and write across a broad range of community-focused topics. The community news section will cover everything from a youth sports to senior citizen activities to local politics to advancing a play at a high school. This is an entry-level position but often provides opportunities to write for the daily. One year of daily or weekly newspaper experience preferred but we will consider strong college graduates with demonstrated ability and experience.
Ah, the sweet sounds of dues being paid. Paying your dues at a 70,000 circulation paper owned by the LA Times ain’t a bad way to get started, though.
 I finally finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” I enjoyed it, even if I’d guessed some of the surprises (from a writing standpoint, some of the twists were a bit obligatory as part of the presumed structure of the series).
I especially enjoyed that she went further than ever in junking the standard format for her novels. I liked the old “Dursleys/train ride/mistaken theory/Quidditch/revelation/end” structure for the first three or four books, but I was ready for something new. And it looks like the next book will toss that structure out the window in a big way. The only thing I didn’t like is the probable long, long, long wait ahead for the conclusion of the series. Anyway, I’ll post a real review to Amazon later this week.
Adults who like Harry Potter might want to check out the forthcoming paperback version of “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.” Be warned, though: This is Harry Potter as done by Jane Austen. If that sounds intriguing to you, I highly recommend the book. I got lost in it for weeks, and loved every minute of it.
From MTV News:
Don’t worry that Liz Phair has chucked it all for teen pop, despite working with Ashlee Simpson’s producer John Shanks on her upcoming album, Somebody’s Miracle, due October 4. “People get very uptight about staying in a certain genre or not breaking out of your expected style,” Phair said. “If I like indie rock, I can’t like pop. Or if I’m a pop person, I have no credibility in rock. But for me, I just decided to go farther and take my aesthetic stand stronger.” Song titles on the more grown-up Miracle include “Leap of Innocence,” “Table for One,” “Stars and Planets,” “Lazy Dreamer” and first single “Everything to Me,” which asks a lover to “take the time to catch me if I fall” while also asking, “Do you really know me at all?” …
Found on Guyville: A New York Times interview with Liz, saying that it’s time for fans who want her to go back to 1993 to move on. The interview is in two scanned-in JPGs over on Guyville. Page One, Page Two. It might require Guyville registration to read them, I dunno.
The official Liz Phair site now has the first single off the album, “Everything to Me,” available for your streaming pleasure in Windows Media and Real Audio.
The Associated Press is reporting that a Caltech scientist has discovered a tenth planet in our solar system, well beyond the orbit of Pluto:
It’s icy, rocky and bigger than Pluto. And according to scientists who found it orbiting the sun, it’s the newest planet on our solar system’s block. The planet — the farthest-known object in the solar system — is currently 9 billion miles away from the sun, or about three times Pluto’s current distance from the sun.
“This is the first object to be confirmed to be larger than Pluto in the outer solar system,” Michael Brown, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology, said Friday in a telephone briefing announcing the discovery.
Brown labeled the object as a 10th planet, but there are scientists who dispute the classification of Pluto as such.
Astronomers do not know the new planet’s exact size, but its brightness shows that it is at least as large as Pluto and could be up to 1 1/2 times bigger. The research was funded by NASA.
Brown has submitted a name for the new planet to the International Astronomical Union, which has yet to act on the proposal, but he did not release the proposed name Friday.
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