If you like TMV and would like to make a contribution to what we do, September is the month designated for it.
No, our problem really isn’t bandwidth expense: although TMV is personally QUITE wordy in his posts, we haven’t reached that point yet and Powerblogs has been patient with us.
A key problem is the way this weblog is done….on the run (mostly from readers..). Due to time on the road over the past year TMV upgraded the kind of hotel he stayed at so he could be at a hotel with High Speed Internet. That has run into a bit more money. Now he finds that some of these hotels that advertise it have no such thing so he is being even more careful where he stays.
Plus, a contribution at this time will help due to some other problems that have surfaced. The point is: if you ever wanted to give a tip (besides “Too much cabbage gives you gas..”) this is the month when you can do it. If you’re interested, you can “tip” via Paypal or Amazon. This message will only be run at various times in September.
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.