Schmutzie and the Palinode Start Vlogging

Although I have done a couple of vlog-type things in the past — doing Ethel Merman impressions with a cereal- and peanut butter-encrusted puppet counts, right? — I have wanted to do more on the vlogging front (video + blog = vlog). The Palinode has done some good work with the MamaPop video roundtables, among others, so, after years of overlooking the bounty right under my nose, I finally had the good sense to ask him if he would collaborate with me on some vlogs.



Our plan is simple. You will ask us a question in the comments. It can be about anything. It can be about us, one of us, or not about us at all. Seriously, we're game. After we choose a question, we will answer it in three minutes or less and put the video up within the week.

We also haven't named this thing yet, so if you've got a snappy idea, throw that in, too.

Are you in? Bring on the questions!

Join Me In Documenting The Tasty, Sad, Sweet Endings Of Things

I was walking around late yesterday afternoon, thinking along to myself about the kinds of things I was in the mood to write about, and it struck me that I was going to forget before I got home to write it all down, because that's what happens, doesn't it?

So, I whipped out my iPhone and recorded my thinking-aloud-while-walking, and I ended up inviting us all to share our stories of the tasty, sad, sweet endings of things:



It being fall, it just seems right to curl up with a cup of coffee and savour the last bits of things, and not to mourn them, really, but to let the flavour of them sink in.

There are no rules here. Write three sentences, several paragraphs, or a poem. Post a photograph or a drawing or a collage. Post a vlog. Share something you created three years ago.

While I go and write about my tasty-sad-sweet-endings-of-things story, how about you go and write/photograph/draw/vlog/knit yours, and then we can all virtually meet back here by linking to our stories through the SimplyLinked widget below:


The Tasty, Sad, Sweet Endings Of Things


I can't wait to see your tasty-sad-sweet-endings-of-things pieces. I imagine that they'll be mighty, um, tasty.