I'm putting off doing my housework today by blogging, so you're getting a double dose of me at the moment. I've got two posts up over at Cocktail Party Physics and a third one going up tonight (and then I have to think of what else to blog about over there until the 14th! Oh the pressure!) I've gotten a few hits from there, too, since I started guest posting for Jen. I can't get at her statistics, so I don't know if her number of hits has fallen off or not.
Just for the heck of it, I googled myself again today and discovered a link to "The Bear Dancer" up at WBAI's Hour of the Wolf site in the Index to SF Online. I got a nice little reciprocal link from Diana Trout on her lovely mixed media/bookarts site. Then I found a couple of my photos—old, predigital ones too!—on a site about St. Paul's Cathedral choristers and in another blog meditation on philosophers. This, of course, since I joined Flickr, which makes them more widely accessible. Since I'm not a professional photographer, I don't really mind people using my photos as long as I get a tagline and a link. It's a nice bit of viral marketing if it brings people back to either my site or to the blog. Slowly, slowly, I'm infiltrating the net. . . .
Here's a little bit of viral marketing for a place I went to last night, with Dr. Em: The Mermaid Inn, on Second Ave. between 5th & 6th. Great seafood (better than the Blue Water Grill meal I had with Mom the last time she was here) and the kind of decor I'm always suckered in by: not too formal with a lot of dark wood, a garden, a long bar, and tables on the street. The bacon wrapped scallops appetizer was divine: just a little smokey from the bacon, the scallops practically melting in my mouth. The lobster roll with Old Bay fries was so rich and yummy neither Em or I could finish ours. I took the leftovers home and made a nice lunch of them today. She had the Whale's Tale Pale Ale from Cisco Brewers and I had the Fisherman's Brew lager from Cape Ann Brewing Company, which is the lager I've been looking for all my life, or at least since I left England. I have to get some of this stuff to keep in the fridge, even if I have to schlep all the way over the Balducci's for it. No dessert menu, even if we'd wanted any, but we were brought a demitasse cup full of chocolate mousse that was just right. Then we waddled over to St. Mark's and bought more books, our usual passtime when we're wandering around town together.
And last but not least, a new song from my friend Peri, "Credo," which made me cry.
Okay, enough procrastination. I can't stand it anymore. Off to clean.
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