Friday night it was time for a reunion with my old friend karaoke. I invited some others along for the ride. Wacky hijinx ensued.

For anyone who didn’t know already, I am an incurable dork. I saw an ad for this book and now I am on a mission to find it before I get on a train this evening. Between Mother’s Day activities and general Sunday laziness, it probably won’t happen, so if you’re at Barnes & Noble today and happen to see it…think of me up in Niskayuna, and revel in my dorkiness.

Good blogs contribute new content to the internet and to the world. I usually try to write a good blog. Not today. Today, I am participating in a myspace-esque, poor excuse for an entry, pass-this-on-to-your-friends activity. And since I don’t know anyone else who writes a blog with any sort of regularity, I guess this will be the last link in the chain.

From Kenneth McRoberts’ Catalonia: Building a Nation Without A State -

In fact, the intellectuals and thinkers who gave birth to the Catalan nation in the late nineteenth century did have unusually powerful materials to work with. Simply put, they gave ‘national’ form to a cultural, social, and even political reality that had existed for many centuries, indeed since the late 900s. Moreover, this historical entity has some remarkable accomplishments and achievements to its credit. Given such a long and illustrious past, it is not difficult to see why so many contemporary Catalans remain committed to obtaining recognition of their nation. ~ p. 6