Rant: Twenty Worst Literary Agents- May 25, 2006 Absolute Write is both a Web site, and a community for writers. Perhaps the most well-known part of the site is the forum, known as the Absolute Write Water Cooler. Don't try to go there; you can't right now, because of a malicious scammer with a bad temper. Among other things, the Absolute Write Water Cooler has been vital in informing new and naive writers of various cons and scams, ranging from fake publishers like PublishAmerica, to scam agents who don't actually ever get anything really...http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/news/2006/05/rant-twenty-worst-literary-agents.html Weblog Roundtable at Kalamazoo 2006- May 8, 2006 Shana Worthen did an excellent job of moderating the roundtable discussion, with fellow bloggers Elisabeth Carnell, Michael Drout, Richard Nokes, Michael Tinkler, Alison Tara Walker, (the moderator of the Medieval Studies Community), and me, as participants in a discussion that ranged over why we started blogging, why we blog now, what blogging offers that other forms of online interaction don't, why we think blogging is important to medievalists, the value of anonymous blogging, and the uses...http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/news/2006/05/weblog-roundtable-at-kalamazoo-2006.html Celtic Wine- May 5, 2006 The drink of choice among the wealthy is wine brought from Italy or the region of Massalia. It is normally drunk unmixed with water, although sometimes water is added.Athaneus (fl. c. C. E. 200) Deipnosophistae trans. Phillip Freeman. (John T. Koch and John Carey eds. The Celtic Heroic Age. Celtic Studies Publications: Maldon, MA, 1995).There are a number of similar references in Classical sources to the Celts' fondness for wine. Most references emphasize that the wine was unwatered, and that...http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/news/2006/05/celtic-wine.html |