Author: James McNally

My Tribe

First of all, thanks to Ethan Watters for sharing his sources and updating this blog yesterday more than it’s been updated for quite a while! The Virtual Book Tour moves on today to Geoffrey Long’s Inkblots.

Now, I absolutely meant to post this last night, when I had Mr. Urban Tribes himself in residence, but I left it on my computer at work, so here it is today, a day late and a dollar short. But I went to so much trouble writing it that I want to put it up, even if I think it’s pretty rambling and incoherent. Let me tell you about my tribe…
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Virtual Book Tour 3

Urban Tribes [cover]

Today marks the beginning of another Virtual Book Tour. This time around, it’s Ethan Watters’ book, Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment (buy it from Powells.com). I’ll be participating this time, but haven’t yet received the book. Come back on Thursday November 14 to welcome guest blogger Ethan Watters himself as he comments on many of the sources he used for the book. It promises to be at least 4.7x as interesting as anything you may have read here recently.

Diddy, Now Meg, Who’s Next?

Lots of folks running these days. Ever since Brooke and I started back in the spring, I’ve noticed a lot of people are either taking up running for the first time, or returning to it. This past week, the NYC Marathon boasted, in addition to many thousands of other runners, the fabulous P.Diddy/Puffy/Puff Daddy/Sean Combs running his first marathon. Hmm…the name of his site makes me wonder if one day he’s going to seek political office.

Now, I see that another world-famous New Yorker (of decidedly more recent residence, to be fair) is running for charity. I found her exhortation “don’t be scared off by the ‘God’ in the organization’s name” sort of funny, though. Why are people scared of God? 🙂

On a related note, I wish I could somehow incorporate my boring (but more frequently updated) running blog into this one without making Consolation Champs even less interesting.

UPDATE: I just saw that Jason Kottke was blogging the marathon in real time, tracking Diddy against blogger Maciej Ceglowski. Sadly, rapper beat blogger, proving again that nice guys finish last.

UPDATE 2: Maciej has posted a fabulously long and interesting account of his marathon experience!