1001 Rules For My Unborn Son is my favorite blog find of the day.

Richmond Public Library’s Spring Book Sale begins this Friday.  Like I need more books (wait, yes I do!).

Pew’s 2009 State Of The Media report is out in all its gory details.  You can read an overview here.

Take a McDonalds double cheeseburger and put a McChicken in the middle and you’ve got yourself a McGangBang.

Fan of the Fan is a new community blog for all things the Fan.  Give it a peek and enjoy.

Script Frenzy is coming up in April. 30 days, 100 pages. Sounds like fun. Like a Nanowrimo for scripts.

Last summer, John Odum was traded by the Calgary Vipers for ten baseball bats valued at $665.  At first Odum took the deal in stride.  But three weeks after the trade he quit.  On November 5th he died of an overdose.

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“Richmond, Va.’s rental vacancy rate of 23.7 percent is the worst in America…“  (h/t RDR)

This Tuesday, February 24th is IHOP National Pancake Day! Get yourself some free pancakges!

If a stranger invited himself to your house for dinner and offered to give $200 to the charity of your choice in payment, would you accept?  Franke James did.

The idea is brilliant and in the beautifully illustrated post James points out how this could have great applications to help non-profits.  Well worth a read on a Saturday morning.

The Rules Of Gunfighting

11. Stretch the rules.  Always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

Resolution #4: I will strive to become better at engaging others at public events.

I’m a wallflower.  I always have been.  It takes a lot for me to walk up to a completely stranger or a group of them and introduce myself and really engage in a conversation.  I don’t shy away from it when it comes my way, but having to stick myself out there is something I’ve had trouble with.  Which is not necessarily a good thing when you consider I’m interested in things that require a bit of outgoingness.

Politics, marketing/media, these things require face to face interactions with complete strangers at things where they are not necessarily their to specifically meet and engage you personally.  So I need to work on this.  Kinda come out of my shell and all.  We’ll see how that goes.

All that said, it was great to meet a bunch of fellow Richmond Twitterers at the Richmond Twestival tonight.  It’s always nice to put faces to the names and even find some new folks I otherwise may never have met – real live or virtually.

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Resolution #3: I will strive to become more involved in my community.

I have lived in Richmond for almost four and a half years. While I’ve learned quite a bit of its history and some interesting things about the place, I’ve never really felt settled until recently. Maybe it’s that I’m done with school. Maybe it’s that I’m in a house and now see my self here long term.

Now that I feel that way though I should become more involved. Get out more. Go to local gatherings and get to know my neighbors. Really make Richmond my home.