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I figured out how to reconfigure the name server!
Go me, right?
I’d already found a WordPress template I liked.
So, now all I have to do is customize the template. An editorial challenge but easy/peasy from a tech point of view.
The template allows for comments, categories, social media promulgation and all the good stuff.
It will look better than the Huffington Post when it’s up and running! Although maybe not as good as The Daily Mail.
So, now I have to pow-wow with the Number One son and figure out exactly what he would like to do with With Justice for Some.
It is his site. Though he said I could write for it, too.
I wrote one piece in 2017 that’s appropriate for the site. And actually, since the appellate court recently upheld Michelle Carter’s conviction, it’s still topical.
The Layleen Cubilette-Polanco case made me want to write something, too. No, not on transgender people dying in custody—though that would be the trendy hook—but on the appalling miscarriage of justice that occurs when people are locked up because they can’t afford $500 bail. I mean, even if you don’t follow the social justice argument here, there’s the economic argument: It costs $323 a day to house an inmate at Rikers, so the state is losing money.
I also thought a history of Rikers Island might be a fun project plus it also gives us a History category.
Assuming we launch with ten stories, that leaves seven stories for Max to write or farm out—because yes, we will be inviting guest writers. (Former Public Defenders in Marin County! You know who you are!)
Anyone stumbling across this, who has a passion for reforming the criminal justice system, likes to write, and who can extrapolate the underlying issues from a single legal case (or a handful of similar cases) is invited to contact me.
We’ll also have to figure out an editorial calendar. I think we’ll have to publish something new at least once a week to stay relevant.
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In other news: Had my first meal from the garden last night: Swiss chard sautéed with lemon basil. Mighty tasty.
I am now the liaison between our community garden and the local food bank.
I watched The Professor and the Madman. I’m actually a cite in the Oxford English Dictionary. A piece I did for Entertainment Weekly way back in the Jurassic is one of the first on record to use the term "fan fiction". So, naturally I’m an Oxford English Dictionary fan girl!
Mel Gibson (who plays James Murray) and the film’s director went to court to get their names removed from the film, they hated it so much.
But the film is Not Bad.
Go me, right?
I’d already found a WordPress template I liked.
So, now all I have to do is customize the template. An editorial challenge but easy/peasy from a tech point of view.
The template allows for comments, categories, social media promulgation and all the good stuff.
It will look better than the Huffington Post when it’s up and running! Although maybe not as good as The Daily Mail.
So, now I have to pow-wow with the Number One son and figure out exactly what he would like to do with With Justice for Some.
It is his site. Though he said I could write for it, too.
I wrote one piece in 2017 that’s appropriate for the site. And actually, since the appellate court recently upheld Michelle Carter’s conviction, it’s still topical.
The Layleen Cubilette-Polanco case made me want to write something, too. No, not on transgender people dying in custody—though that would be the trendy hook—but on the appalling miscarriage of justice that occurs when people are locked up because they can’t afford $500 bail. I mean, even if you don’t follow the social justice argument here, there’s the economic argument: It costs $323 a day to house an inmate at Rikers, so the state is losing money.
I also thought a history of Rikers Island might be a fun project plus it also gives us a History category.
Assuming we launch with ten stories, that leaves seven stories for Max to write or farm out—because yes, we will be inviting guest writers. (Former Public Defenders in Marin County! You know who you are!)
Anyone stumbling across this, who has a passion for reforming the criminal justice system, likes to write, and who can extrapolate the underlying issues from a single legal case (or a handful of similar cases) is invited to contact me.
We’ll also have to figure out an editorial calendar. I think we’ll have to publish something new at least once a week to stay relevant.
###
In other news: Had my first meal from the garden last night: Swiss chard sautéed with lemon basil. Mighty tasty.
I am now the liaison between our community garden and the local food bank.
I watched The Professor and the Madman. I’m actually a cite in the Oxford English Dictionary. A piece I did for Entertainment Weekly way back in the Jurassic is one of the first on record to use the term "fan fiction". So, naturally I’m an Oxford English Dictionary fan girl!
Mel Gibson (who plays James Murray) and the film’s director went to court to get their names removed from the film, they hated it so much.
But the film is Not Bad.
