You may recall that the VonChorsen blog was conceived last summer during donJeffe’s journey to Frankfurt as a Burns Fellow. The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship sponsors the exchange of American and German journalists, for the mutual professional and cultural benefit of the US and Germany.
At the end of the exchange period, participants are invited to […]
Happy HappyI completely missed my own 1-year anniversary. Sorry honey. April 4th was my first post. Yee-haw!
For Earth Day, try taking this quiz to gauge the size of your ecological footprint. My result was: “If everyone lived like you, we’d need 5.8 planets.” Gulp.
Afterdinner is an online writing workshop with some killer features, like line-by-line manuscript feedback. It just relaunched and looks to make for an exciting community.
I met this guy […]
I was coming up on the 24/580 interchange yesterday morning, looking for a chance to move one lane right. A mid-aged woman driving a Saturn sedan had left a good deal of room between herself and the next car. I flew by her, noticing her “Magic Happens” bumper sticker. As I swung my truck into […]
I just finished making my CDs for the Burn Baby Burn great summer blogger CD swap It’s a killer idea. Each Participant receives the names of five other participants around the country. Then, each person assembles one mix CD with a “summer” theme and sends a copy to all five other participants. In theory, you […]
A lot of people who give California a hard time complain that it’s a conflicted place, a phony place, a place that isn’t sure quite what it’s supposed to be, how it wants to present itself, or how to be moment to moment. This is exemplified by the weather that we have here: no real […]
Hell hath no fury like a cam-girl grounded. Except maybe that guy Bill’s royal bitch sister. Yeah, maybe her. But that’s it.
Disc 1 of Phish’s first album, Junta, is the hot center of my music collection. It reached me during the heart of my self-realization all those years ago, and it’s the point from which all music is generated, understood in my world. If you know me, you know I’m not spending my summers following the […]