Modesto Famous - blogging

blog run, carbon foot print, smudged reputation, benefits of walking

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:48:06 -0500

Blog run today, to warn you all, Jdc104 may soon be back behind the wheel once in awhile, not on my bike, back to being licensed, insured driver. Been an interesting experiment to do the Art Walk production, complete with walking to do the poster posting for the State Theatre while walking, good way to meet the other gallery folks, venues and places who post the posters, make some contacts, and I'm an all weather walker. Environmentally friendly, you pay attention to weather, wardrobe, thank Payless Shoe Source, xmas and birthday gifts of shoes and socks, hardly dissed for some time, sweaters either. Easy to gauge the crowd turn out after walking down to do the show, and appreciation of public transportation I rarely use, but ACE train to get into where I used to sometimes work, play, even hang art.

jdc104 suggests......actual blog

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:35:47 -0500

YOu always see that Famous Recommends.......

well, its in the scene, 90 words by mojo, other half of ad is for marjicke......

So I thought I'd blog some from me, jdc104

Thought I'd put up an actual blog for a change. Its been awhile, readers noticed Jim has been doing about as many State Theatre, and Art Walk things as I did Blues Fest, when I got into Efren like trouble, for allegedly too many blogs as "blues man". Fuck it, I am trained as a journalist actually, have the big award from UCR for Columbia School of Jouranalism, make Jay Smith proud my cartoons got our newspaper confiscated, had to reprint, no redo of the strip, so have to support comics right to bad taste at times. But Jay, I acutally did crew at UCR for Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Lilly Tomlin live.....great shows, along with the originals bands of the seventies, from the sixties, etc. Keep to those pro reviews.....

Are you going to the Yosemite Writers Conference?

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:36:26 -0400

It's not to late to sign up!

Noveltown is going. Are you?

Want to meet literary agents, publishers, editors, and authors?

Want to learn about the many facets of writing in today’s literary world?

IN Patterson, the Relay for life will take place in May

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:31:38 -0400

I had tried to attach comment to Efren's Relay for Life lineup blog. The Modesto Blues Festival is same date, nearly same time as this event, but I too have relatives who were victims of Cancer, and wish to note, as my cousin Marty, the latest one, was a Patterson, CA resident and they will be doing their relay for life, for the cancer society, teams, music, and at the track at Patterson HS in May.

consider blog radio function for ModestoFamous.

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:14:46 -0500

two ideas, as the site I do the regular Jim's Musings poetry gig, http://www.thebluedoodle.com as an example, does blog radio, also done video uploads, similar to myspace, youtube.

my new digital does video capture. should have rss feeds already, but internet radio, is an expanding thing, especially for networking, community online magazine formats, as much fun as those photo uploads, could do concert tie ins, video tour of a show, event, etc.

new things going on

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:04:36 -0500

well, the frustrations of having the computer crash, in the midst of mojo's crisis here at modestofamous, finally solved with an art sale of some of my work, some old like me from 1988, one new one from last week, such i could go get a new laptop, and vista takes a bit of getting used to, and the laptop conversion requires a new printer.

Viva Mojo! Ruben talks to Bakersfield's Paperback Writer, and more...

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:36:37 -0500

Motown Mojo granted me an interview a few days ago in an article I wrote about social networking sites and alt print media in the Central Valley...

Check it out on... Paperback Writer

my gang shoots at red, your gang shoots at blue, my music must be best, boo hoo

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:38:41 -0500

I'm always fucking amazed, use the profanity for a purpose, when I read these arguments on a public blog site, where Mojo is pretty good loose let it flow editor, where you guys argue over My Music the only music, be it indie, metal, smashmouth, gangsta, hip hop, etc. It ain't, there is jazz, classical, alternative, new age, punk, rock classic, rock lite, christian pap smear, bit of jiggle music, hard core elevator music, gospel classics, etc, even music from other countries, other towns, other states, other universes than just, hate to remind you, this is only small town by comparison elsewhere in CA. Get a grip, this is better now than was when I got here.

Tis the Season, Crime time, housing woes.

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:45:54 -0500

Tis the Season, and Modesto Bee, www.modbee.com been loaded with holiday cheer locally, on the Front Page Sunday, with a big foreclosure feature, how its way up, and likely to get worse, and if you lose the house, you're homeless too. Crime up in local news.

See You when I See You

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:18:34 -0500

One of those published at www.thebluedoodle.com, originally in myspace blog, and I've got one, has poems, art, real estate at http://360.yahoo.com/jdc104

A friend of mine often uses this good bye phrase.

QUIXOTIC minD, poem by jd christiansen

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:31:19 -0500

quixotic mind
Current mood: awake
Category: Writing and Poetry

Bipolarity,

with sincerity,

despite what is rumored, there are actually

a rarity,

barely more than the schizos

Space Path, a poem

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:15:39 -0500

SPACE PATH by J. D. Christiansen, 2006 I also post on poetry page at
http://www.thebluedoodle.com and on myspace.

SPACE PATH -

balancing on a burning tight rope,

with no ends, no anchors, no slack but where I stand.

Where else Jim goes on the Net besides Modestofamous.com

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:19:00 -0400

I thought I'd put up a blog of what Jim's doing online, networking elsewhere than the blog here at Modesto Famous. I had originally worked up a slow load geocities.com website, a free one, to put up a lot of my art work, starting in 1998. Its now 44 pages, with some banter and drivel blogation to go with much of my online scanned in original art, much of it story and done in Modesto. http://www.geocities.com/jdc104/index.html.

Modesto artist Jim Christiansen on www.thebluedoodle.com

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:20:50 -0400

From a submission to friends who, like modestofamous.com happen to be on myspace, I was able to submit 14 of my watercolors, and bonus, one of my recent poems, to writer website http://www.thebluedoodle.com I'm one of the features on the main page, other articles on photography, miscelaneous reporting, and writers. I'm the only one from Modesto, but thought bloggers, artist, other readers here, might want to take a look, as first time for me to have someone pick from my submission and publish. Just thought I'd share a recent different sort of experience for me, and a place to view my art online.