Slate’s Culture Gabfest:

Thanks to Dana Stevens, film critic at Slate, (who referenced my piece on Mickey Rourke in her look at his career and comeback) for choosing my blog as her weekly pick in Slate’s Culture Gabfest. If you listen to the audio, too, you can hear her endorsement of my site at around the 36 minute mark. I’m very moved by her words.

I’ve been reading her reviews for a long time. Thank you so much, Dana. And thank you for protecting my site, for a while, from those who might not understand what I do (I get a lot of those folks, as you can probably imagine).

But thank you, also, for deciding to go ahead and endorse my site anyway. And of course it happens to be on a day when I post my iPod shuffle. Chock-full of Brit-Brit. I stand proud.

Something’s going on. Something’s happening. Something’s coming.

That’s all I’m gonna say right now.

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10 Responses to Slate’s Culture Gabfest:

  1. Lisa says:

    As long as you just LISTEN to Britney, and not SHOW your Britney, I think you’re okay.

    And, kudos! Maybe soon you’ll be able to afford that bookshelf I sent you yesterday!

  2. fergal says:

    heard about your blog through the slate culture gabfest..spent a good hour or so perusing. Its fantastic… !!

  3. fergal says:

    and sheila o malley? thats the most irish sounding name ive heard in an age..and i live in ireland..i hear irish names all the time!!

  4. red says:

    Fergal – yes, Irish names abound! Thanks so much for reading – glad you like!

  5. melissa says:

    I’ve got West Side Story running through my head now… something’s coming, I don’t know, what it is, but it is, going to be great…

  6. red says:

    Melissa – yeah, I’m getting that feeling these days. It’s the “I don’t know what it is” part that is difficult!

  7. Dana says:

    Sheila! I’m so glad you heard the endorsement. Did someone tell you about it, or are you a regular Gabfest listener? I discovered you through Wolcott a year or so ago and am in awe of your beautiful, generous, labyrinthine website, which seems to have new corridors and secret passageways each time I visit. Your trove of writing on L.M. Montgomery was the latest section to knock my socks off.

    I know those West Side Story moments in life, and I hope yours turns into something great. Maybe tonight, maybe tonight, maybe tonight.

  8. Carl V. says:

    Hey, congrats to you, that is awesome! Your site is always a treat to visit, even when the times between my visits stretch out far too long. I certainly admire what you do here and never, ever leave disappointed.

  9. red says:

    Dana – I am thrilled that you found me thru Wolcott!

    Occasionally I listen to the Gabfest – I have found a lot of great things there myself, new sites, etc. – but this week I just saw the traffic coming my way from that page and decided to go check it out.

    Thank you!!

    And thank you, above all else, for really getting it – for really getting what I’m doing. I mean, I’m not doing anything other than talking about my obsessions – but you know, that’s a tough concept for some, who get baffled at the variety.

    Oh, Lucy Maud … one of my lifelong obsessions. I need to do another post on her, in lieu of the recent revelation from her granddaughter that poor LM committed suicide. I have to say, having read her last volume of journals, that I am not surprised – but it is still wrenching to think of the pain she must have been in the end. The author of Anne of Green Gables – a shattered wreck. What a gift she gave us – with her unswervingly optimistic and humanistic writing – and yet her own life (or – maybe I should say – her psychology) was in such tatters. I really really feel for her.

    Anyway, thanks again. Your vote of confidence could not have come at a better time!

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