Monday

Alert the Press

If you missed it, blogging history occurred Saturday morning: I didn't post anything. I haven't verified it, but I think Saturday's silence broke a nine-year string. I didn't skip Saturday for any particular reason. I've just been swamped at the office: worked until almost 7:00 Friday night, then left for the office at 5:45 Saturday morning, then went to Fort Wayne for a basketball tournament at noon. It wasn't exactly a dream weekend, and when I remembered that I hadn't blogged Saturday morning, I basically shrugged.

That being said, I think you can assume that I will continue to absent myself on the weekends, at least during the summer. There's simply too much going on. Plus, I'm hoping it gives me time to write better pieces than some of the tripe I've been forced to rely upon lately.

New Podcast

TDE readers know I'm a big fan of Mike Duncan's The History of Rome podcasts. A TDE reader notified me over the weekend that Duncan is getting ready to launch a new set of podcasts. From Reddit:

The next show is called Revolutions. I'm going to take 8-12 revolutions and cover them in 12-15 episode chunks. So if the History of Rome was a novel, this will be more like a collection of stories. I'm still working on the final list, but I'm sure to cover: English, American, French, Haitian, 1848, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Cuban.

It's scheduled to launch in September.