I thought that Horizon was simply going through a quiet phase — a vacation, a missing laptop, and then the poetry. How could I have been so blind? All that time, Alan Allport was setting up house with his "new family".
Posted by Ben Brumfield at April 14, 2005 09:02 AMI never considered bad poetry dangerous, but now I see it can break a man. O! the humanity.
Posted by: Bobby Farouk at April 14, 2005 10:20 AMI was going to post about this today. Yes, the folks at Clio have kindly asked me to become one of their contributors; but this is not a signal that I'm jumping ship. I will still be (cross)posting at Horizon as usual. Though given my less-than-mercurial output at the moment, don't expect to see much change one way or the other.
Careful observers of the archive will notice, however, that Horizon is about to celebrate its first birthday; and I'll be posting a few comments about that in the next couple of days.
Posted by: Alan Allport at April 14, 2005 11:02 AMThe net does seem to facilitate this kind of promiscuity. About half of my colleagues at Cliopatria have their own individual blogs and at least four of us participate in other group blogs. I'm not given to moral judgments about this kind of behavior.
Posted by: Ralph Luker at April 14, 2005 12:29 PMI'm not given to moral judgments about this kind of behavior.
I figured as much from you, you home-wrecker!
Posted by: Ben Brumfield at April 14, 2005 12:35 PMMea culpa!
Posted by: Ralph Luker at April 14, 2005 01:21 PMI can tell you the truth about Ralph. If he could, he'd have all us Cliopatriarchs chained and bound to the cause (and none of that moonlighting). I can see him now, with his big whip and cruel leer flogging us on to write! write! write!
Um, not really. (Although I can't say for sure that he doesn't have a big whip.) Welcome, Alan, it'll be good to have you around. I'm not exactly the most diligent of contributors at Cliopatria either...
Posted by: sharon at April 16, 2005 03:24 PMThe actual length of my whip is a conciliar secret and there is an official ban on public speculation about it. The best clue that I can offer you in that respect, however, is that I live in Atlanta and Sharon posts from Wales.
Posted by: Ralph Luker at April 17, 2005 01:28 PMHeck, if Alan's cheatin' ways gets us more intelligent readers then I'm all for it. Those are so damn hard to find!
I always thought he was a bit of a floozy.
Posted by: Alan Hogue at April 18, 2005 08:56 AMHey, congratulations.
As it happens I'm going to do some more serious blogging work too, for a trade publication on housing issues.
On the subject of which, can anyone tell me if the spam blacklist software we use here will also work for a Blogger-based site?
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at April 19, 2005 05:40 PM