http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/ en-us 2008-07-16T12:38:24-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/07/limerickickickickickick.php Lisa's birthday generated a melee of limericks, if you can imagine such a thing. Here's what our precocious intern Tait offered with a corresponding "Boo yah!" There once was a woman named Lisa Who just like the Tower of Pisa... Profoundly Distracting dzimmerman 2008-07-16T12:38:24-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/07/le_jour_de_gloire_est_arrive.php I don't remember much from French class, but I remember this: On July 14, 1789, French populists stormed the Bastille prison, a warehouse for military arms and penal institution for political dissidents, as an act of protest against the authoritarian... Profoundly Distracting dzimmerman 2008-07-14T09:39:30-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/07/another_candle_on_the_cake.php Ode to Odes! dzimmerman 2008-07-11T08:19:27-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/07/rabbit_rage_1.php This morning, as is often the case on the first day of a month, I had the double pleasure of saying "Rabbit" to Lisa before she could say it to me, and of actually seeing a rabbit bounding across my... Rabbit! dzimmerman 2008-07-01T08:57:51-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/06/spreading_out_the_joy.php Yesterday was Dave's birthday, but since my Internet connection is strangely dim (as in nonexistent) at home, and since I love to spread out the cheer, I offer this one-day-late tribute in celebration of Dave (everyone at home: sing along;... Lisa Rieck 2008-06-30T11:02:26-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/06/safety_first.php Congratulate me. I'm sure I've earned it. Not just because I actually renewed my license early enough to do it by mail and therefore didn't have to drive through a torrential storm to the Secretary of State's Office the day... Profoundly Distracting Lisa Rieck 2008-06-27T13:47:20-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/06/donkey_in_a_box.php Today at Likewise Books, base camp for Strangely Dim, we held our bimonthly Donkey Congress, where we discuss a publication (sometimes one of ours, sometimes another publisher's) that has even the most dubious bearing on our publishing program. Today's discussion... Likewise Books dzimmerman 2008-06-20T05:02:41-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/06/you_are_the_marketing_plan.php Adventures in Writing dzimmerman 2008-06-16T05:23:59-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/06/youre_invited.php Invitations are a funny thing. In the past few months, I've received formal wedding invitations, Facebook invitations to events and groups, and invitations to meals through email or in conversations. I think for all of us, any invitation inevitably... Stuff About God Lisa Rieck 2008-06-13T13:54:15-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/06/forty_years_ago_today_bobby.php Forty years ago today Bobby Kennedy died of a gunshot wound in California, marking the abrupt and unsettling end of a surprisingly hopeful kind of era. In its e-newsletter today, Sojourners quotes Kennedy's speech in Capetown, South Africa, two years... Stuff About Culture dzimmerman 2008-06-06T08:32:15-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/06/where_have_you_gone_bo_diddley.php Rock legend Bo Diddley has died. You can read of his passing here. My high-school band, Little Queenie, covered Bo Diddley's song "Who Do You Love?" which is a quintessential example of his signature style: "Shave and a Haircut" rhythm;... Stuff About Culture dzimmerman 2008-06-02T13:04:42-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/06/i_interrupt_this_fourday_weeke.php dzimmerman 2008-06-01T08:42:22-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/05/i_confess.php Stuff About Everybody dzimmerman 2008-05-27T08:53:49-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/05/choose_your_weird.php First, for a topic that has nothing to do with the title: Congrats to Dave, whose latest book, Deliver Us from Me-Ville, has arrived, hot off the presses! I know I need to read it--and I know, because of who... Profoundly Distracting Lisa Rieck 2008-05-23T10:30:42-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2008/05/fun_with_misplaced_modifiers_o.php I was recently made aware of a clever blog by Rachel Held Wilson, "Evolving in Monkey Town," about the challenges of practicing faith in a postmodern era and a fundamentalist context. Or something like that. The author writes from Dayton,... Links I Like To Link To dzimmerman 2008-05-22T13:20:48-06:00