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How I barely survived being on local television

Posted by Catherine Robinson on Oct. 5, 2009, at 1:27 pm

Catherine Durkin Robinson is a handful creating quite a scene over at Out in Left Field.

Last week I got a request to appear on Studio 10, a local morning talk show in Tampa, hosted by Holley Sinn and Jerome Ritchey. They wanted to discuss my review of Capitalism: A Love Story and maybe even my blogging adventures here at CL and Out in Left Field.

Despite the fact they have no open bar, I agreed to go on the show.

Thursday morning, I arrived early and asked for the makeup room.

Lovely Receptionist blinked a few times.

“Where do you think you are?” she asked. “Oprah?”

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Tags: 10 Connects, capitalism a love story, catherine durkin robinson, holley sinn, jerome ritchie, out in left field, studio 10
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, CL TV, Movies, Television |

Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll ‘09: The race for Best Local Blog

Posted by David Warner on Aug. 17, 2009, at 12:28 am

The campaign for Best Local Blog in the Creative Loafing Readers’ Poll is getting serious; note the campaign photo at right.

Not everyone’s a fan. One jaded voter responded to the question this way: “There’s no such thing.” We also got “no,” “none” and “I hate blogs” (which may be the name of a blog, I’m not sure).

But the 100-plus blogs nominated so far in the category suggest plenty of our readers would disagree.

The leaders at the moment? Here they are in no particular order (as the host says on I can’t remember which reality show): Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: artsqueeze, Best Local Blog, Best of the Bay Readers' Poll 2009, Creative-Loafing, daily deuce, Daily Loaf, out in left field, political whore, re/creating tampa, ridiculously inconsistent trickle of consciousness, saint petersblog 2.0, sticks of fire, stpetersblog, wednesday-music.om
Posted in Best of the Bay, Tech |

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