The big ritual of giving is changing. We have thousands of reports coming into Revbilly.com. Families are approaching the holiday as an open experiment, often in step with other families in their neighborhoods or in their places of worship. In this Christmas Revolution, we ignore the veiled threats from the media that we’re bad Americans if the retail corporate grosses sink. We are returning to the very seed of the whole thing: the act of giving.
…commercial Christmas resembles a kind of indoctrination, since these images of happiness are very similar to one another. We call this the Demon Monoculture! The fiercely happy families on the glossy boxes are,…
Yesterday the Muncie Star Press ran two pieces on me. One was a book review and the other was a profile.
The stories continued the theme that “Timmerman is neither a journalist or an academic; he’s just some guy,” which is really beginning to grow on me. Ivy Farguheson, a real-life journalist, was great to talk to and did an excellent job writing piece. So good in fact, that it landed a photo of me on the front page of the paper and featured story in the Life section.
In total, four photos of me appear in the paper. A bit too much ME…for me. While the interview was comfortable, the photo shoot with Kurt Hostetler was less so. I don’t mind…
Jesse explains to Derek later that they’ve started growing food again there. She offers Sydney a delicious snack of Plumpy Nut– “Peanut butter mixed with baby formula and vitamin powder,” as she describes it.
I want a Kindle for Christmas. Yeah, I know they’re expensive and that you just got laid off. But, you see, I’m hopefully going to be doing the research/travel for my second book in 2009 and I would love having not to drag around a library or scrounge an entire foreign city only to find one book in English — usually a romance novel. I would ask for a Sony eReader, but apparently Sony is too good to carry WAIW? Amazon isn’t. To help you out, you can download it by clicking on the pic below.
