urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:benrosenbaum benrosenbaum benrosenbaum 2008-05-18T08:22:56Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:benrosenbaum:1787 2008-05-18T08:22:56Z 2008-05-18T08:22:56Z I got the advance reading copies for my collection, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931520534?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=benjaminrosenbau&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1931520534">The&nbsp;Ant&nbsp;King&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Other&nbsp;Stories</a><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; MARGIN: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" height="1" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=benjaminrosenbau&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1931520534" width="1" border="0" /> in the mail the other day, from my fabulous publisher, <a href="http://lcrw.net/">Small Beer Press</a>. <br /><br />&gt;<img src="http://benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/images/ARC/arc.1.jpg" alt="" /><br />&gt;<img src="http://benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/images/ARC/arc.2.jpg" alt="" /><br />&gt;<img src="http://benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/images/ARC/arc.3.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />Very excited. Hey, if you know anyone who wants to review this book somewhere, or interview me, or whatever, let me know so I can try to score them an ARC! (Thanks to our fabulous ARC models <a href="http://benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/images/ARC/noah.arc.jpg">Noah</a> and <a href="http://benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/images/ARC/aviva.arc.jpg">Aviva</a>.) <br /><br /><br />(Cross-posted from <a href="http://benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog">the blog</a>.) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:benrosenbaum:1498 2008-04-10T16:36:13Z 2008-04-10T16:36:13Z <p>All right, <a href="http://lingtm.livejournal.com/68061.html">there is now a poll</a> hosted by the witty and terrific </p><span class='ljuser ljuser-name_lingtm' lj:user='lingtm' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://lingtm.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://lingtm.livejournal.com/'><b>lingtm</b></a></span>concerning my and <a href="http://craphound.com">Cory Doctorow's</a> story "True Names", which we're podcasting on his site. (The poll also has links to the podcast).<p>&nbsp;</p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:benrosenbaum:1199 2008-04-10T12:55:53Z 2008-04-10T12:55:53Z <p>I want to make a poll of which character people are rooting for on the True Names podcast, and I like LJ polls... though not enough to upgrade... :-)</p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:benrosenbaum:817 2008-03-03T08:33:35Z 2008-03-03T08:36:15Z While there is an <a href="http://syndicated.livejournal.com/rosenbaum_rss/">LJ feed</a> of &nbsp;my regular blog, it isn't that satisfying: I don't see the comments, they disappear swiftly anyway, and you don't friend it by friending me. It would be awfully nice if there were a way to just automatically have posts to my MovableType blog crosspost here. Anyone know if that's doable? Maybe I'll look at the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sixapart.com/developers/product_documentation/livejournal/ljxmlrpcpostevent.html">LJ API docs</a>.<br /><br />In the meantime, since LJ seems convenient for so many folks, I'll just try to crosspost here desultorily and intermittently... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:benrosenbaum:605 2008-02-28T16:15:54Z 2008-02-28T16:15:54Z Biking to Noah's preschool&nbsp;this morning, after a long, dreamy, companionable silence, Noah says from the bicycle carrier, apropos of nothing:<br /><br />"Actually my imaginary friends are really <em>metaphorical</em> friends". urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:benrosenbaum:417 2008-01-12T22:13:01Z 2008-01-12T22:13:01Z is at : <a href="http://syndicated.livejournal.com/rosenbaum_rss/">http://syndicated.livejournal.com/rosenbaum_rss/</a>