Nerding out late on Friday

The recent adventure in Arizona, (of which I still have some nice bits to put up), provided a few minutes of video that I want to get edited together. That will have to wait for the weekend, if I get ambitious.

In the meantime, I just made some tweaks to the site layout, adding a block of links to various places that friends are at. If I left some people out (i know i did) let me know and up it goes. I also shrank down those avatars to 40 pixels, and made a nice little table, so they are iconic yet not intrusive.

To inspire me to try a video blog, consider MNspeak.com's Videoblogging Week 2006. On an unrelated but cool note, see City Pages: 30 years of Minneapolis punk.

Well that is all for this evening. It seems that a swing through St. Paul is in order......

ARISE, your friendly local anarchist bookstore, to host Kos of DailyKos on book tour on May 2

Genetically engineered bladders have been created in labs from host samples. Then the bladders have been successfully implanted. Excellent. The eschaton is at hand.


I was just given word that Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, of MyDD.com and DailyKos.com respectively, will be at Arise! on Tuesday, May 2, at noon.

The event is confirmed! Tuesday, May 2nd at noon.
Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga will be speaking and signing copies of their new book, Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics. Markos is the founder and editor of The Daily Kos--the largest and most popular progressive blog in the country.
(Check it out at: http://www.dailykos.com)
This event could be seriously huge. The blog is read by a crazy amount of people, including everyone from left-leaning Democrats to the far left. I'm going to start with publicity today. So, we may start to get some calls at the store about the event. Please confirm the date and time w/people, provide directions, etc. If anyone has any other questions about the event, please give them my cell # and email address.
Thanks!
maddy

as was noted to me:

its gonna be crazy big, probably way bigger than we can handle, but thank goodness we are about the last option for independent bookstores in the twin cities.

I read Crashing the Gate on my way down to Arizona, and it was pretty good, if a bit uneven, as reviewed earlier. Interesting stuff. I gotta say what up to Kos and get the book signed. Sweet.