I went to Justin Hall's birthday party on Saturday. I actually didn't know it was his 26th birthday til I got there. Justin just told me that Amy had invited a bunch of people to dinner.

Unlike Justin, I rarely write about anything personal on the web (about as far as I'll go is to say that my parents are coming here on Monday for about a week). But now that he has a search engine working again, I can find some of the times he has mentioned me (I'll have to go back and make the links more descriptive when i have more time - some of the mentions are brief - these links are really more for me). The day we went to the 1996 SF Book Festival. There were two scenes I was in from that day in an early version Home Page which were cut. Justin mentions me a few more times during that period (they are starting to come up on the search - here and here and here and here. Rebecca also wrote about me around the time.

Justin mentioned me again in 1998 a few times. Here and here and here (I still haven't really redesigned my webpage) here (back when I was thinking of going to Berkeley's j-school) and

More recently when I stayed with Justin when I got back here at the end of August. more links I'll connect later. enough for now. I should go to bed.

lhttp://www.links.net/vita/sf/egg/notes/200008.html

http://www.links.net/re/print/

http://www.links.net/vita/gx/notes/200009.html
posted by steve rhodes 12/20/2000 12:08:51 AM link for this item

Tuesday, December 19, 2000

Linda Richardson of Galaxy Bookshop is keeping a diary this week on Slate. You can see a picture of her and some of her book picks.

Galaxy's site is part of Book Sense which puts independent bookstores online. Booksense has an affilate program that people can use rather than Amazon.

The site has a piece by Karen Joy Fowler.

For more on independent bookstores, subscribe to (or read online) Holt Uncensored. For more on the book industry, subscribe to (or read online) Publishers Lunch. You can discuss books at Readerville. Update: Pat Holt worked at Book Passage over the holidays and wrote about it in three parts. Day one, two and three.
posted by steve rhodes 12/19/2000 03:00:10 AM link for this item

Monday, December 18, 2000

This week's This Modern World is on the Supreme Court decision (Michael Moore has posted Mark Levine's widely circulated comments on it).

The always astute Lawrence Weschler has a good brief piece in Salon, Dan Quayle Redux.
posted by steve rhodes 12/18/2000 12:40:41 AM link for this item