http://thisismybloomington.com A Blog and Podcast about Bloomington, Indiana Wed, 19 May 2010 17:47:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're starting to hear a rumble (and tweets!) in Bloomington ... excitement about TEDxBloomington is building! Though I'm delighted to have more people visiting my blog, my luci@tedxbloomington.com e-mail is now running, so if you have questions specific to TEDxB, it may be best to catch me at that address. I'm coordinating ... http://thisismybloomington.com/?p=28 There's a Cirque du Soleil performer living in Bloomington! http://thisismybloomington.com/?p=27 I've been talking to more and more movers-and-shakers in Bloomington about the upcoming TEDxBloomington in May 2011, doing more research about how other TEDx events work on a logistical level, thinking about who and what and how to make this "Wisdom of Play" event (or series of events!) fabulous ... ... http://thisismybloomington.com/?p=26 If you don't already know about TED.com (TED = Technology + Entertainment + Design + a whole lot more), then after reading this post, go directly there and prepare to spend many minutes and up to many, many hours watching all the videos there.  You will be inspired!  But first, ... http://thisismybloomington.com/?p=25 Once again, the Lotus Festival has announced the artists they expect to perform, and once again, I've made a list of what's available at eMusic.  19 out of 26 acts, people!  And if you're new to eMusic, you can download 50 songs for free by following my link.  (Actually, you ... http://thisismybloomington.com/?p=23 If I knew more about WordPress, I'd delete the dates from previous posts so you wouldn't see the enormous gap(-s).  But it's been a helluva year.  Most notably, I spent seven months helping my good friend and fairy godmother, Colleen Cleary, as she went through treatment for metastasized brain cancer ... http://thisismybloomington.com/?p=22 I'm not sure if they've posted them on the Lotus Festival website yet (although if they haven't, they must be having technical difficulties there because it's past the deadline they said at the concert), but here's a tentative list of the artists appearing this October in Bloomington. detektivbyrån ~ analogue electronic ... http://thisismybloomington.com/?p=20 So it's summertime and my kids have been off school for a month and a half, with me pretty much 24/7.  It's been near-impossible to find moments of quiet here (except for the hours when we're all asleep ... or my insomniac nights when I dare not make noise that ... http://thisismybloomington.com/?p=19 I've written and rewritten the opening to this blog post, composed apologies and offered excuses, and now I'm deleting all of that to start again. If anyone is interested in helping me get this podcast up and running in a more timely manner, particularly if you've got experience with Garage Band ... http://thisismybloomington.com/?p=18 Here's the link to the NEW show. You can listen to it in your web browser by simply clicking the link or you can right-click (or on a Mac, click-and-hold, then select “save”) to download it to your computer and then move it to iTunes (or whatever) and listen ... http://thisismybloomington.com/?p=14