Earlier this week Bhamterminal ran an interview I did. It was with one of the more prolific online contributors here in Birmingham. Dystopos (as he’s known online) founded the Bhamwiki, started the all seeing Magic City Flickr Group and started the Deep South book discussion group on LibraryThing. While on his journey to chronicle all things Birmingham, he has quite naturally become a good book collector, with an ever expanding collection of Birmingham, Alabama centered books. All of which has afforded him a unique perspective on the Magic City and its history.
The article appears in its entirety, (with a book photo by Dystopos) after the jump.
Find your elbow pads… the annual second-floor gobbling Super Book Sale at the Vestavia Hills library kicks-off Friday, February 1st at 5pm and continues through Tuesday, February 5th.
No doubt the crowds will be there early, but it’s always fun to go on the last day when they say something like “give me $2 and go fill this grocery sack” or something like that. I think proceeds benefit the new library planned to replace the one on Highway 31.
We have plugged the Birmingham’s 2008 Big Read Project Mockingbird a few times already. Now organziers are flexing the ir Web 2.0 muscles and asking for help from the immensley productive Magic City Flickr Group. Basically, the call went out for photos of events, people or anything that related to project Mockingbird or the book To Kill a Mockingbird.
So if you have any pics sitting around, just upload them to any Flickr account and tag them “projectmockingbird”, so the libraries can parse them to their sites via widgets.
I just found out that tonight’s planned reception, celebrating The Birmingham Arts Journal‘s five years of publishing, has been moved to February 29th at Urban Standard (2320 2nd Ave. N). So we’ll all have to wait until then to meet the staff and some of the journal’s more recent contributors. The latest issue is in stores now and also available to view via pdf online, along with all the back issues. Which is pretty darn cool!
And here’s a little haiku for you to help welcome the weekend, which hopeful holds plenty of quiet time for you to read!
