Burningbird

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Either a voice from above, or another Google Instant Message just came through:

calling burningbird do you read me come in burningbird

I hear you! I hear you calling me! Speak to me! Tell me, what is the truth!

2:15 pm

To my weblogging friends: Whatever you do, don’t let your babies grow up to be writers.

9:41am

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To make matters worse, at a Highlander convention, these people are all carrying swords! Lord only knows what happens at Buffy tVS cons. I can guess, though, because Forever Knight was a show about vampires,and so there were a number of people running around Syndicon wearing fangs. It was the ones with the fangs … and the swords that really worried me.

You can tell, as you observe these people, which ones are just having fun and which ones have gone over the edge. There were a few too many over the edge for my comfort zone.

I found this at a beautiful weblog, From the Treetop, who also happens to exercise good judgement and excellent taste. Ahem.

I couldn’t agree more with Treetop: swords and fangs would worry me a bit, too.

Now, if you want to talk about fangs and necks…

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I was visiting my favorite weblogs this morning when I realized that I’m surrounded by an incredibly gifted group of people! Weblog after weblog, I found poetry and prose, humor and wit, irony and illumination; people sharing their lives and their interests simply and with grace and style.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt more privileged in my life than to know that these people take time out from their busy days to read what I have to write. What a gift I’ve been given, and it’s given every single day. Every single day.

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A weblogging newcomer Victor Echo Zulu, who already demonstrates good weblogging practice (multiple posts throughout the day), has one of the best responses I’ve seen on a tedious squabble we all, unfortunately, know too well.

Huh? What kind of community have I joined?

Victor, every community has its dirty secrets and this tiresome battle is one of them. Ignore it, concentrate on the fun, and next thing you’ll know you’ll be hooked liked the rest of us. Welcome to weblogging!

(Stop by and say hello. Bring him a pie.)

Thanks to Jonathon and Garth for introducing us to Victor.

<edit /> Calling Victor Echo Zulu! Calling Victor Echo Zulu! Add the email thingy to your site. Over?

<edit /> Victor now has email enabled – send him a hello.