Looking forward to exploring this.

"If I was smart, I would have waited a few years and made an iPhone app: a little satirical story about how to write about Africa every day, interactive and adaptable, for ninety-nine cents."

"The Twittersphere is an odd and uncanny place. It’s something like having fairies at the bottom of your garden. How do you know anyone is who he/she says he is, especially when they put up pictures of themselves that might be their feet, or a cat, or a Mardi Gras mask, or a tin of Spam?"

"Most Americans are idiots about Africa.... Writing forces me to learn, and sharing what I learn helps me learn more, as people correct me, contradict me and explain things to me."

"to mark the 70th anniversary of the diaries, each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years after it was written" Way cool.

new favorite web site

"And so, with a swift change of garb, Raskol emerges into the night!"

A collection of essays, all 750 words or shorter. My favorite starts, "Tommy Schmidt does not drink milk. He is scrawny and freckled and eight years old to my five. We are in love."