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IT’S ON: Memphis blogger bowling bash-o-rama

It’s time for a blogger/internerd enthusiast get-together. Right now the plan is vittles at Hephzibah, drinks somewhere(?), and bowling at Imperial Lanes, our fair city’s 24-hour bowling emporium (which is so gol-danged photogenic, I just about can’t stand it). All this is slated to go down the second weekend of May, which I assume to mean a Saturday night, but it could last for days and days and days because that’s how we roll in…

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Day 98: Hot off the Presses

Spent my evening working on a Flash project for work. It didn’t start out well, because I’m still in self-teaching mode (and rusty from the weeks of atrophy following my early February Flash blitz course). But it ended just fine. In fact, I leapt up from my chair and ran around the water fountain and danced a little jig. I hope my luck holds because I’ve got to haul ass to get this thing done…

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Memphis photography project 365 (2009)

Day 93: Closed

Tried to file some Very Important Paperwork today, but it completely completely slipped my mind that city offices would be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death day. So, next week. Last night Cameron Harper tweeted a link to the collection of LIFE Magazine photographs from the King murder scene that have just been released to the public for the first time. I clicked through them slowly and felt my breath leave my…

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