Friday 7 November (barely)

My first entry. Wow. One of the blog hosting sites suggests starting with Hello World! But I don't use exclamation points, so I guess not. The about me will say that I am a sort of retired (does that mean tired again) communication professor and university administrator who also had a career in advertising and public relations. I now own a restaurant with my wife and son (I mostly stand at the front and say "hello folks") that keeps my occupied some. I live in Louisville KY and have spent musch time in Boston, New Orleans and South Florida.

This blog will deal with politics, music, their relationship and lots more. I will recommend books, music, web sites, technology, food and anything else that I care to do. As a college teacher, I was always thinking about getting things published. Now I don't really care. This endeavor is about the writing of and not the reading of. I like to think, though, that someone might stumble upon this, perhaps because of the neat name thanks to my wife, and maybe be a bit interested or maybe not.

I will write about some serious stuff like the democratization of media by allowing folks like me to speak to a potentially large audience and the staffing of the Obama presidency, and some more fluffy things like recipes for regional food (bugoo and gumbo.) and my music best ofs for the year. I might also speak to the overuse of parenthesis and the art of proofreading. Unlike the speeches and articles, news releases and ads I spent a career writing theses will be done in one take. How very different that is.

Now what do I do? The election is over and how do I budget the four hours a day I spent reading about it. I guess I will have to do music. Buy CDs and download much music. I still have 93 downloads left on my emusic account and only a couple of weeks to use them. Maybe this will replace the time suck of the election.

If anyone sees this, please write. My adventure begins...jimbeaux