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from postcardsfromyomama via my friend Annie who sent this to me accompanied with the note “SOUNDS LIKE YOU!”:

And how are you today? I have a question for you. . Dad wanted me to ask you about the blog boy you know in DC. How does he make money writing a blog? Dad would like to do this too and wants to know how. Your friend has a job doing it so maybe he knows. Does he make a lot of money? It sounded like he did, if he has his own apartment!

Dad’s tired of working at Schwab

I don’t think anybody should be quitting their day jobs. Unless your day job is blogging. In that case, quit that shit.

Gothamist publisher Jake Dobkin totally nailed it in a Tweet he sent out just a moment ago.

Park Slope as metaphor for America: a bank on every corner and nowhere to buy bread
1 minute ago from txt

I think that’s pretty much sums it up.

Since I’m on this twitter kick, I thought I’d share this video that I just came across with you.

I started twittering recently, or trying to twitter more accurately… I tweet even less than I post things here. But the microblogging phenomenon is pretty interesting. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, I’ll explain. Tweets are one-word blog posts to keep your peeps updated as to what you’re doing or to share some brilliant wisdom. Choire Sicha of Gawker fame has got the twitter thing down to pretty much an art.

The photo friends I’ve managed to locate on Twitter thus are the ubiquitous Jen Bekman of course, David Michael Murphy, Kate Bingaman, Younga Park and Raul Gutizerrez. There are plenty of others on there too though, like Snoop Dogg and Barack Obama. You know– we’re all friends.

All y’all haters best step off. Look who’s on the Magnum blogroll.

Upstart Blogger is a fantastic designer of minimalist Wordpress themes and is also an amazing resource for the backend of blogging in general.  I intially went to this site to pillage certain features from the themes, and it was like falling down a rabbit hole of information about building better blogs.

You can see that I’ve applied absolutely nothing about what I’ve learned, but that’s a whole different issue.

Be sure to check it out.

© Greg Wasserstrom

I blog day in and day out for three different political sites now. I’m still at Wonkette, though only doing a couple posts per day, and I started Cynics’ Party with a former Wonkette editor a couple weeks ago, so please check that out. It’s a lot of dick jokes. I’m also writing Whitehouse.com, which, if you recall used to be porn site. Now, it’s just my writing  which is shitty deal for everybody other than me. Politics takes over my life in an election year, but there’s not fighting it, children. There’s only giving in.

So this is going to be different now, starting with the post that comes next, maybe tonight, maybe in a couple days. I am going make a journal that will be a photobook, and I’m going to write it here. When it’s ready, I’ll lay it out into a book with pictures, ad things, subtract things, include comments, exclude them, put in links, take them out, etc, and send it out to whoever is interested.

I’m going to start making work that fits into my life. Right now, my life is impossibly wonkyv and I just can’t swing the Dash Snow impression at the moment.  I’m also going to redesign the blog part of the site soon so it also looks like me and not like a wall in the fucking MoMA.

© Greg Wasserstrom

I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting you. It’s not because I don’t care; in fact, I think about you more than once every single day. You’re much busier now than last year, and with so much going on I’m worried that you’re going to forget about me. So here’s a tidbit: it’s the Library of Congress Flickr stream, though I can’t take credit for discovering it. Bryan Schutmaat left it for me in a comment this morning. Sometimes he sends me things to put up on account of he doesn’t have a blog.  Anyway, the stream it’s full of fantastic photographs including mind-blowing color images from the home front during World War II. So take a look at that. Bryan said looking at them was the best part of his day. That rang true for me too. And I had a pretty good day.

In other news,  I’ll be posting to Gawker this coming Saturday and Sunday. Come by and take a look if you have a minute.

© Peter Voelker

Peter took this of Bea Fremderman and Andrew Laumann and I think that’s just swell. Check out Peter’s hot new site, also.

I’m headed back to New York sometime in the next couple of days, and in a moment I’m going to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a distinguished institution, to see Nan Goldin’s Ballad, which is a big deal to me for obvious reasons and I’ve never seen it in person. No doubt I’ll have all kinds of reverent things to say upon my return.

I hope things are going well with you. I’ll be back in the city soon and we’ll finally hang out again.