In answer to a batch of emails: I have posted little the past few days due to my being on a long trip to Northern California in my nonblogging incarnation. This involves being at a hotel with Internet that sometimes works and sometimes is unusable (I have found the best, most reliable medium priced motel chain for Internet is Best Western and this hotel is not Best Western), driving 19 miles each way for the event, and a daily schedule that does not allow me to get online. I hope to be doing a bit more starting tomorrow and by Tuesday be back to normal in my own posting. In the meantime, TMV is in TMV cobloggers’ capable hands.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.