AS YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED IN COMMENTS, I'm wondering if there aren't actually TWO "lowcountries" within the larger set "Lowcountry."
The idea goes like this: That if you look at the area between Winyah Bay and the Savannah River and define it by the cultural centers to which the residents orient their identities, then there's a Charleston-centric lowcountry that picks up Berkeley and Dorchester while extending south into parts of Colleton County.
But by this definition there's also a smaller, distinctly Beaufort-centric lowcountry, where residents might even be more oriented to Savannah than they are to Charleston.
In other words, we share a Lowcounty with Beaufort, but do we share a community?
I don't know, but it becomes an interesting subject thanks to Lisa the Blog Scout, who has turned her attention south and has started finding lots of blog action down in Beaufort County.
TO KEEP TODAY'S NEW ADDITIONS SIMPLE, I'm just adding two of mine. And they're very local.
First up: the 2006 Spoletoblog. The truth is that we don't really have the staffing all sorted out yet, but screw it. Last night I finally set aside a block of time and got the new look worked out (Janet bought us Photoshop for the house, and playing with it is my new favorite thing in the world), and when I get ahold of something Spoletian, I'm just gonna post it. The staffing will catch up to the blog as we approach the opening. Or it won't. We'll see.
BUT TODAY'S REAL HEADLINER is the brand-new blog Lowcountry Chump, which is the work of Michael Fussell, one of the web editors at Charleston.net. If you came to Uplifter you might have met him: he's the tall triathelete who makes me look like Mickey Rooney. His motto: Low-brow, high-tech. And he's refreshingly honest:
Ok, I'm really just setting this up so I can go to a bloggers party.
You got it: Mike wanted to attend the Tuesday blog party, and I told him the price of admission was he had to start a blog (that plus, you know, he's gotta pay for his food and drinks like everybody else).
But you know, for a bogus blog created just so he could go to a party, this one is ... a lot of fun. For instance, the first thing we learn about Mike is that he's living with his brother and they're extremely cheap, so that when it comes down to the fact that they've got one TV with picture but no sound and another TV with sound and no picture, their answer isn't "Let's buy another cheap TV" but "You know, this could work."
In a follow-up post, Mike decides the answer to improving this two-TVs-make-one-set solution involves power tools. Specifically, a drill. I suppose this was inevitable. When I got my first power sander, I thought everything needed to be sanded. Here's hoping Mike goes out and buys a nail gun, because THAT could be fun to watch...
ANYWAY, SPEAKING OF BLOG PARTIES... Here's what I've got for a guest list:
- Chuck (chuckography)
- Heather (Moncks Corner Moments)
- Heather's husband
- Mike (Notoriously Nice)
- Peg (bellascribe)
- Cass, Peg's husband
- Joan (Walk This Way)
- Dan (Xark)
- Janet (Xark)
- Jason (Cavaliers and Roundheads)
- Janetlee (Kittens on the Keyboard)
- Kelly (Microfamous)
- Alison (Baxter Sez)
- Walter (Baxter Sez)
- Windviel (Mustang Rolling)
- Harriet (GMLc)
-
Vera (Vera's Crafty Blog)
- Erin (the redhead papers)
- Lisa (Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness)
- Patrick, Lisa's husband -- maybe
- Jason, Lisa's husband
- Eugene (Imablog)
- Eugene's wife (maybe)
- Ad (Agricola)
- Ad's wife (maybe)
- Geoff (GeoffTech)
- Leigh, Geoff's fiance
- Mike (Lowcountry Chump)
- Bill (Bill Hawkins) -- maybe
- Diane, Bill's wife -- maybe
So it seems to me that we should make reservations for anywhere from 20 to 30 people. If anybody else wants to call Toucan Reef and set that up, just leave a comment here, and if nobody does, I'll handle it when I get back to town on Monday.
A reminder: Your Friday local round-up will be written by Heather. I just sent her a "guest writer" invite, which those of you on Typepad know is a full-fledged account on everything but admin rights.
I'll do the Thursday round-up after my 10 a.m. meeting, and then we're heading for the hills...
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