hot seat

Today's photos were taken by and are the property of Jim Leonard, who kindly gave me permission to reprint them here. Please do not use these images without permission, thanks.

My Hot Seat stint in misc.writing went okay, much to my relief. :-) There were a couple of questions about Xlibris, but most were focussed on Inkspot, my writing, my comic strips and Urban Tapestry (I gave a plug for our albums and for Conchord, of course). I was also asked, "What is filk?" :-) I directed people to the definition(s) on The Dandelion Report.

Basically, being in the Hot Seat meant that ANYONE could ask me questions, usually with some discussion in the group along the way. I was highly amused when, partially in answer to the question "How did Inkspot get started?", Sal Towse (who was my Markets Editor for Inklings) provided a link through Google to an old misc.writing posting from 1995:

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From: ohi (ohi@gold.interlog.com)
Subject: Children's Writer's Web Page
Newsgroups: misc.writing
View: (This is the only article in this thread) |
Original FormatDate: 1995/04/03

I've compiled a list of pointers to pages that might be useful for writers, especially those who write for children. If you want to check it out, the URL is:

http://www.interlog.com/~ohi/dmo-pages/writers.html

Comments welcome!

Debbie Ridpath Ohi -- morgaine@utcc.utoronto.ca
(Toronto, ON Canada)† http://www.interlog.com/~ohi/home.html
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Holy cow, is that an old posting. The URL is from when I used Interlog as my hosting service, and the e-mail address is a carry-over from my University of Toronto days!

Sal's an Internet research goddess, by the way. You should check out her Internet-Resources.com site, especially the section for writers.





My favourite question in the Hot Seat session was "What's your favorite sandwich?" :-D Thanks to Bob Pastorio for asking this.

My answer:

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Yay, I love food questions. :-)

Peanut butter and jam is my favourite. I'm so boring. It's comfort food.

Second favourite is roasted red pepper and goat cheese sandwich that a friend of mine makes that is to die for.

Third favourite is the Cobb sandwich that my mom-in-law makes in her restaurant.
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Parki is the friend who makes the roasted red pepper and goat cheese sandwich, by the way. Yum. My mouth waters just remembering how good it is.

So what about the rest of you? What's your favourite sandwich? Please answer in Blatherchat.





Yesterday, I tried running in downtown Toronto. It was raining on and off, so I stuck to running close to buildings, beneath the overhanging roofs. The benefit was that I got to run outside but stay out of the rain at the same time. The downside was that I kept running into second-hand smoke because of all the people taking cigarette breaks. Augh!

Going to the cottage in a few hours. Jodi has kindly agreed to help keep an eye on my Market Watch column while I'm away. Thank you, Jodi!!!!

I'll post again when I can. If I don't post tomorrow, it means that either (1) we couldn't get into the lake or (2) the power lines are down at the lake.

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Today's Blatherpics:

	Andrea and Rand in the open filk circle at FKO a couple weeks ago. Photo: JL.
	Paul in the open filk circle at FKO. Photo: JL.
	Jodi on stage with Urban Tapestry. Photo: JL.
	Erica and me in the back of the main programming room at FKO. Photo: JL, though the overexposure in the back is my fault (I increased the overall brightness so you could better see Erica and me and then changed the photo to grayscale to compensate for the overly bright colours).