Drive-By Posting ...

In Friday's Pop Culture Notebook, we had a fun rattlebag of stuff: An open mic at Coney Island Hot Dogs, Amanda Palmer being arrested, poetry at the White House with Common controversy and more.If you look close, you might find a few familiar names from the Worcester arts scene peppered throughout. It's an old trick, asking locals about things to "localize" a story, but it's still a good one, and certainly one I intend to continue, even if I'm run way too ragged to do much actual journalism with the dang thing. Also interested in getting little reports from local artists about their comings and goings. Obviously, I can't use everything I get, but if something particularly cool, amusing or out-of-the-ordinary happens at a Worcester-area show, drop me a line and we'll see if we can sneak it in.

Today on Radius, there are two lovely poems from Paula J. Lambert, elegies for Bottom Dog Press co-founder David Shevin. They're gorgeous, and I'm happy to have published them.

It's become clear to me that my commitments to Radius and the Pop Culture Notebook will almost certainly affect how I use this blog, but aside from having somewhat less time to spend on it, I'm not entirely sure what the difference will be. For the most part, I think I'm content to just play it by ear and see where we end up.