The Dimmer the Better
In the beginning, Strangely Dim was a solo venture. I worked alone, and I liked it. Truth be told, I was a bit of a diva about the whole thing, contriving ways of punctuating my conversations with phrases like "I wrote about that ON MY BLOG," or, if I wanted a bit more gravitas, "I'll be addressing that very issue soon IN MY ONLINE COLUMN."
But like many things, over time blogs can get a little stale, and ideas conceived in isolation can forestall in arcane incoherence. It was, eventually, no longer good for the solo blogger to be alone, so Lisa Rieck very graciously joined the Strangely Dim party. The result has been a nice counterbalance between our voices with the occasional silliness framed in a whole fortnight given over to something or other.
So nice, in fact, that Lisa and I recently shouted out to our colleagues at InterVarsity Press the sober-minded, professional equivalent of "Red Rover! Red Rover! Send Christa right over!" And like a bolt of lightning Christa Countryman shot across the field, broke through our tightly locked arms and joined our little blogging entourage. You'll start seeing posts to Strangely Dim from Christa in the next couple of weeks.
Christa came to InterVarsity Press originally to help coordinate our participation in the 2006 Urbana Student Missions Convention, but people here know a good opportunity when they see one, so Christa's temporary position in the business department morphed into a permanent one in the editorial department. She now proofreads books and marketing materials, and keeps everybody up to speed on the Cylon menace chronicled on the TV show Battlestar Galactica--for which I, for one, am especially grateful. She likes to bake and, as you'll see, she likes to write really well. Either way, you're in for a treat.
So there you have it: Strangely Dim is now a troika of strangeness and dimness. Consider yourself warned.
Posted by Dave Zimmerman
at February 27, 2009 1:20 PM
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