{"id":3751,"date":"2026-06-25T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:25:17","slug":"what-i-blogged-about-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/what-i-blogged-about-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"What I blogged about tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the comments of my blog post yesterday, my first post in many months, Alan Levine waggishly (heh) asked Andy Rush<\/a> what he thought I’d blog about tomorrow. Now it’s tomorrow, since it’s today, and a yesterday-in-the-making (just you wait and see), so time for two subjects:<\/p>\n

1. For the first time in years, I’ve got an RSS reader up and running. My first subscriptions in this new reader (Unread, for the iPhone), are to blogs by Alan Levine<\/a>, Andy Rush<\/a>, John Naughton<\/a>, and Alan Jacobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alan Levine<\/em>, because he’s been encouraging me with infinite tender assurances that it would be great for me to blog more, and because his blog is An Example To Us All and a Blog For All Seasons and the Eighth Wonder Of The Modern World (postmodernists don’t blog, as blogs imply a Grand Narrative, which postmoddies reject–that’s my story, anyway).<\/p>\n

Andy Rush<\/em>, because he’s a life member of the DTLT Dream Team. and because his blog brings those heady days right up to the present and is thus a reminder of glory days and a reminder that those days ain’t over until they’re over–and besides, I’m the one who asked him to blog in the first place, and look what a poor example I set these days (but the spirits have done their work in one night and I resolve to buy huge turkeys for everyone this holiday season).<\/p>\n

John Naughton<\/em>, because his two lovely<\/a> books<\/a> on the digital age are high on my personal list of Best Internet Books Ever, and because his blog is called Memex 1.1 and how cool is that, and all of this despite the fact he never answered my invitation to be part of the Framework Project<\/a> (restarting soon) but I’m not bitter.<\/p>\n

And Alan Jacobs<\/em>, because I’ve twice just missed knowing him, first in the early 80s when we were both in grad school at UVA and again in 2013 when he joined the Honors College at Baylor about two years after I’d left Baylor for Virginia Tech, and because I discovered his blog a few weeks ago and have been bingeing on it ever since. Should I write him and tell him? Will he see a pingback? He doesn’t allow comments on his posts, probably a wise decision, but not one I’m sure I can emulate because I do love a good comment meetup (see above). And what a binge it has been! Truly an extraordinary discovery, and an uncanny journey through a fascinating life-and-times in reverse chronological order. Indeed, it’s quite interesting to go back in time that way and see outcomes before origins, but that process does rather resemble the way life itself operates: I see the here-and-now, or think I do, but I have to dig, remember, research, reconstruct the origins, or at least plausible origins, in a process of retrospecting with integrity. Anyway, I’ve learned a great deal from “The Homebound Symphony,” experienced much fellow-feeling, and find his excellent prose to be a) unusual for an academic and b) very much to my liking, for that very reason, among others.<\/p>\n

I believe I’ll be adding more feeds, judiciously, as time goes on.<\/p>\n

2. I am reliably informed that today (see above) is International Beatles Day, or Global Beatles Day<\/a> (GBD), depending I guess on whether you live in the US or in Great Britain–it’s GBD on thebeatles.com<\/a>. June 25 is the anniversary of the Beatles’ “One World” satellite broadcast of “All You Need Is Love.” I’m not a huge fan of that song, and not just because “it’s easy!” is really not at all true, now is it? In fact, “All You Need Is Love” is kind of a proto-“Imagine,” another anthem I enjoy less and less as time goes on. I am, however, a huge fan, yes a “superfan,” of The Beatles, so GBD or IBD, it’s a day worth celebrating because they’re a band worth celebrating–every day, in fact.<\/p>\n

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And those were a few of my favorite things that I blogged about tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Toodle-oo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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