[Post bumped by Dan for the weekend]
Well, I’m making it official now.
With the eBook taking up more and more of my time, I’m formally withdrawing from my duties here as copyeditor, reporter, and art director. While I’ll continue on as publisher/administrator—and may still write essays on occasion—I’ll be leaving the day-to-day running of the site to Dan, Enoch, Bruce, Mac, and Meep (Meep will be continuing with her column, and will be providing the guys with binding notes on matters of consistency in artwork and style). Dan will still be brainstorming with me from time to time, and any notes I supply to the writers will still be binding, but I’m essentially out of here until I’ve finished the manuscript for Book 1.
For all practical purposes, I’ve demoted myself to occasional writer until at least the end of July. If there’s a matter you need addressed you’ll want to speak with Dan. I’ll be available to adjudicate disputes between the other editors, or address any management issues in the unlikely event that you don’t feel that Dan is “hearing you out” properly, but please save me for emergencies (joy.mccann at that gmail-like place).
I may also do some real blogging, which I haven’t been able to do over the course of the past year, so you might add Little Miss Attila to your bookmarks again. Small amounts of blogging are actually excellent cross-training when one is working on a book.
Also, I just want to note that we still need to pay the bills this summer, so the tip jar is below. If you’d like the site to continue in my absence, you know what to do. (And many thanks to Jefferson for covering our hosting fees for May. Just in the nick of time!)
Goodbye, for now.
[Site Notes: Please do hit the tip jar. None of us asks very often, and we're aware that there are a lot of good causes (Valley of the Shadow, Jeff Goldstein, Da Techguy off da radio) that ask for your support, but we'd like at least to be able to pay the bills from month to month. If you have an interest in donating by way of writing for us, please apply to Joy, who will probably have enough time to respond to the rest of us, even though she's busy. Finally, I'm unilaterally declaring next Saturday Inter-Blog Outreach Day here at The Conservatory, so I urge the writers to post with links to exceptional posts at other blogs. If we're missing any, this will give you readers a chance to provide us with thumb-nail overviews of sites that we and our other readers may be missing, in comments. So, you've got a week to think about that, if you will be so kind.
And, as always, thanks to the readers and especially the commenters who make it worth our while to keep posting here.]
EBL on May 9, 2012 at 9:17 am said:
I hope you will be available to push back on Stacy McCain occasionally when he gets out of line. Not that he is wrong (he is mostly right) but sometimes he needs you for the occasional reality check.
Joy McCann on May 9, 2012 at 3:37 pm said:
I’m not sure I’m the best choice–the man can be a bit sensitive on occasion.
But I’m open to trying every now and then.
Roxeanne de Luca on May 11, 2012 at 8:38 pm said:
Ooohhh… pick me! pick me! Can I push back against Stacy when he needs it?
Dan Collins on May 11, 2012 at 8:46 pm said:
Roxanne, you’re welcome to post here anytime you like.
jefferson101 on May 12, 2012 at 8:55 pm said:
I still blame myself for the big feud between Stacy and Joy starting in the first place.
It’s a long story from a good while back, but the bottom line is that I set out to send Stacy some funds to buy Joy a drink when he went to California, way back in the day…..
I didn’t get them there in time, and they balled up soon thereafter.
So if you have funds to toss in the hat, do so, and prevent the next blog war, please. I’m doing what I can, but I’m poor folks! It’s just beer money, and if everyone would toss in $5, I wouldn’t be having to keep the lights on by myself.
I’m a thin reed to support this site upon.
Joy McCann/Little Miss Attila on May 13, 2012 at 7:44 pm said:
Set your mind at ease, Jefferson: I met Stacy years before that event (ironically, on another trip he took out here to the Golden State). And with his relentless hammering on “feminism” (which probably means something different to him than it does to me), we were bound to get cross-wise sooner rather than later.
I’ve just decided that perhaps he and Bob Belvedere are right, and that one cannot be a “conservative” if one is a feminist on any level whatsoever.
In which case, Roxeanne, Darleen, Cassandra, Beth Donovan, Sarah Palin, and umpteen other female bloggers aren’t conservative. So THAT’S one set of role expectations we needn’t try to live up to. Very freeing, you know.
‘Cause, you know: the alternative would be that the pro-sexism male bloggers who don’t believe in equality would be asking me to employ my second-rate talents in the service of their first-rate cause.
Which . . . how could they want that? Women can’t write.
jefferson101 on May 13, 2012 at 9:09 pm said:
Well, that’s a relief….or not…..
Trust me. I spend my life with a totally “conservative” woman who is the ultimate female chauvinist, at least where I’m concerned.
She is even more paleoconservative than I am, but she also refuses to agree with anything I say, about two or three days a week.
I’ve concluded that it’s a female thing, and just shut up and smile as required, but it is not something that I want to see reproduced in the body Politic.
Can’t we all just get along?
Joy McCann on May 13, 2012 at 9:48 pm said:
I can get along. But . . . if black conservatives were treated the way female conservatives are treated, there wouldn’t be any of ‘em in the movement at all.
There’s a lot of “just accept that you are inferior, and keep pulling the plow.”
We don’t expect black people to put up with that, but we somehow expect women to accept “their place,” and carry on. I do not understand how that is supposed to work.