I've trying to send my first article to Theme of Absence, but I keep having technical problems. I'll link to it here whenever we get the glitches worked out.

Julie M. from Houston dropped by the other day at work. It's always good to see her as she only comes up here about once every 6 months, if that.

Julie, my wife - not Julie M. from the above sentence, and I went to Billy's tonight. Billy's is one of the few "really-nice" place left here in Lincoln. Most of the upper-scale restaurants in this city have closed up shop.

Welcome to Sir Links-a-lot

• WEHT.Net - What Ever Happened To ... They track the has-beens & those that have been-there-done-that and moved on. {from /usr/bin girl/}
  
• Art and Culture - A fun site combining all types of art and culture. I especially liked going through the film entries.
  
• Famous fonts - Famous Fonts is the first font archive on the web to collect ONLY fonts used in TV shows, movies, publications, and other media and products. {from daypop}
  
• Second Annual Weblong Awards - The Bloggies! Feel free to nominate your favorite weblog, which of course would be this one. {from daypop}
  
• blogdex - blogdex is a system built to harness the power of personal news, amalgamating and organizing personal news content into one navigable source, moving democratic media to the masses. I'm suprised I hadn't stumbled upon this earlier.
  
• alternet.org - An independent alternative source for news. I'm not sure if it real journalism or quacks, but I'm going to watch it for a while and find out.
  
• Comic artist to create poster for next Academy Awards - Alex Ross, famous for his comic book work, is creating the poster for the 74th Acadent Awards. A sign of comics going mainstream? Nyah - but still pretty neat!
  
• Yulelog wins ratings - A television stations showed a picture of a fireplace during Christmas morning - and it won the ratings for that time spot. {from Dreaded Purple Master}
  
• InfoAnarchy - News against attempts to restrict information freedom.
  
• And now some blogs that I'll probably be checking out regularly: Dreaded Purple Master, mybluehouse and bouillabaisse for the soul