Below I have posted an interesting video. Now I do not believe in the paranormal, but I do love the term! This video certainly challenges my disbelief. A car moves along a road, filmed from a distance. The car goes behind a clump of trees. Look very closely and turn up the sound on your computer, because at the front of the car a mist forms. What is can be seen in and faintly heard from the mist is amazing.
I recently bought my first iPod, a four gig Nano, and I have been looking around for good podcasts that deal with books as their subject matter. Now, I am not a complete novice to podcasting. I played with the Hipcast system to do some moblogging during the last Rochester International Jazz Festival. I have also been listening to podcasts from the New York Times and iTunes on my computer, but the iPod gives me a level of efficiency and mobility that I am just beginning to understand and enjoy. Below is a list of some of my favorite book related podcasting sites. It is a short list at the moment, but is getting longer, so I have also begun a running list in the sidebar of the podcasts that I am regularly downloading. If you have any to share, please don’t be shy!
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Today’s picture comes from the school that graciously employs me as an English teacher.
On a cross country road trip I took as a college student, I had the opportunity to travel Highway 50, which crosses Nevada and part of Utah and bills itself as “America’s Loneliest Road.” Many years later, while surfing some MP3 blogs, I came across some songs by a group called The Books and enjoyed the blend of weirdness and cool sounds. A few years after that I started selling used books on Amazon.com and began to keep this blog. So then today I got home feeling fried from coaxing seventeen year-olds through Steinbeck and jumped on Youtube to surf. I came across this:
After looking and watching for a few minutes, I headed to the band’s website and found an eclectic array of sights and sounds. My favorite being a piece building off a map of Route 50 in Nevada. When I find corresponding incidents, I do not see coincidence. I see fate. So without their prior approval, I am naming The Books as this blog’s house band.
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