Why Blog?

 

     Why Blog? It's certainly not because I think people should know, or much less care really, about what I'm doing on a daily basis.  Nor do a have some silly notion that what I have to say is important, it isn't really. Not in the least if I'm being truthful.  In all honesty the idea of doing a daily diary blog scares the hell out of me, I'm still not even all that comfortable with the idea of Facebook.

No, I've been informed by the publisher of my first two books and another publisher who may be publishing my 3rd that I need some sort of social media presence.   Seems that's important these days.

     So the Books.  This is one http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738594125/Burton, and this is the other http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9781467110259/Cleveland-Area-Disasters. You can buy them at Barnes & Noble and a lot of smaller private book stores around town.  Although when I saw that the Wine Store in Little Italy and the gift shop at the Cleveland Museum of Art carried one of my books, well that excited me more than any bookstore. Sometime when I just feel like being stupid I wander into a book store, autograph one of my books and put it back on the shelf.  I'd like to think some store has sent the book back as defaced not realizing it's an actual autographed copy.  That has to add a couple pennies to it's value.

     At the moment I'm working on the history of Children's TV Programming in Cleveland. Which is why Captain Penny is in the title of this blog.  During the next few weeks I'll be posting some chapter's in progress, some excerpts of some interesting interviews.  I think you'd enjoy hearing about the 30 minutes I spent talking with Barnaby's daughter as she was such a nice lady and I learned so much about Barnaby's career.  Hopefully those posts will lead to other people wanted to talk to me about the subject.

    I'll also be prattling on about the previous books, and some projects on other facets of Northeast Ohio History.  And just because I'll probably be linking to a series of articles I've written for a music site over in the United Kingdom.  Some of them aren't bad and I kind of want more people to read the,.

     Hello, and Goodbye for now.

Calvin Rydbom