Got an email from an old friend who found me not here.
Should’ve posted a “Gone Fishin’” sign (and have done so now).
I’ll be back someday (when the time is right), but in the meantime here is where to find me these days:
– Editing and managing the Nevada News Bureau
– Blogging on The Blog there (now branded E!!Politics)
– Doing political analysis & commentary wherever I’m hired or invited
Also: Follow me on Twitter @elizcrum
All my blog pages and archived posts are now here at the new blog location. (Thank you, Andrew!!)
Unfortunately, my sidebar widgets, blogrolls, link lists, and ”In the Media” blurbs did not carry over, so I’ll have to re-build those.
But I think I can safely blog here now without fear of losing things in cyberspace…so, happily, I’ll start blogging again tomorrow!!
Sincere thanks to all my readers for their patience and support during these very trying weeks.
It was bad form not to announce my absence, I know. Humble apologies to all who visited E!! and found me absent.
I decided to buy a MacBook and iPhone the morning before the night before my 3-day trip to L.A. for the Heritage Resource Bank Conference, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) New Media Workshop, and Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) Blogger Reception & Meet-up. (Great and fun and very worthwhile, all. More about them in another post, along with my after thoughts.)
Right after I made the purchase decision, I decided to unplug my home PC/tower and take it to the Apple store so the nice Apple people could magically transfer all my data to my new MacBook while I was out of town. Which meant I had access to Gmail and the Internet on my iPhone but was otherwise offline from Thursday morning until now, when I got my MacBook plugged in and configured and my iPhone synched up. (If I had been thinking ahead, I would have set up an iTunes account when I was still plugged in so I could have downloaded WordPress in advance of my iPhone purchase…but I wasn’t.)
Now that I have all this fabulous mobile/wireless technology, I will never again be separated from my blog, Twitter, Facebook, and other accounts.
Joy!!
This is a test of the E!!mergency blogcast system. This is only a test. If this were an actual blog emergency, you would receive instructions…
Write-ups of and photos from The Sammies will prob’ly start to surface today; I’ll post links here as I find them.
Here’s a nice piece and a couple of photos from Illinois Review (that’s me on the far left, next to Mary Katherine Ham).
And here’s Warner Todd Huston’s write-up. (How on earth did I miss talking to WTH?! Darn it!!)
Here’s Bob Weeks’ blurbs at Kansas Meadowlark. Including mention that Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher presented me with my award.
Since I don’t have an agent or a PR department, I have no choice but to shamelessly promote myself (see award #4). I think there is a blog badge or button coming at some point; I’ll proudly post it here when it arrives.
If you’re in the Chicago area (or want an excuse to be) and would like to attend the awards banquet and ceremony on April 18, click here for tickets. Presenters and VIP guests include Michelle Malkin, John Fund, Stephen Moore, Mary Katherine Ham, Paul Jacob, and Joe the Plumber (yes, really!)
A quote in honor of Sam Adams, the namesake of the award:
“It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate and tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
The award-bestowing Sam Adams Alliance is a 501(c)(3) “To Do Tank” based in Chicago. They educate, inform, and empower citizens about important political issues through New Media tools (blogs, wikis, Google groups, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) Among other things, they created Blogivists: the platform/server upon which this blog was started.
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I do realize this isn’t the Grammys and that the Thank Yous are the most boring part of any awards event…but in addition to a general “thanks” to my readers and fellow bloggers, I would like to specifically acknowledge a few people for their support of this blog:
- My mom, Anne, who nurtured my love of the English language via weekly stacks of books from the local library and who points out my typos before anyone else sees them
- My husband and best friend, The Venerable Mr. Crum, who turned an independent “I’ll-never-get-married” girl into a very happy wife and who makes me yummy snacks when I’m blogging and forget to eat
- My mother-in-law, Angie, who has become a good friend and blesses me constantly with her kind words (and occasional blog comments)
- Our 3 terrific kids – Kayela, Gavin, and Kylee – who have brought much love and laughter into my life
- My uncles David and Tommy, who cheer me on from afar (both are that rare breed: staunch New England conservatives)
- My mentor and friend, Chuck Muth, who suggested that I start blogging and pointed me to Blogivists, and who has played a part in nearly every good thing that has happened for me in Nevada media and politics
- Tiffany Anderson, Charlene Ragsdale, Carrie Hawkins, Carol Schultz, and Darci Dubreuil, who are as faithful in cheerleading as in friendship
- And finally, for the presence of all these incredible people in my life, and the successes of the past year, my humble thanks goes to The Man Upstairs. I surely don’t deserve the many blessings God has rained down upon me. His grace is just amazing.
A faithful reader (aka The Venerable Mr. Crum) recently mentioned that I haven’t been providing my recent Ladyblog posts for your (his) convenience. Here they are:
Condi Signs with William Morris, Wants to Help U.S. Children Become Global Citizens
He’s Too Sexy for These Shirts
Vanity, Maybe Thy Name Really IS Woman (or At Least, This One)
I Will Remember to Relate Everything to Women. I Will Remember…
Feminist (or anti-Feminist?) Quotations
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