A Knight in Dragonland

… but I really like this theme, so we’ll just go with it.
BTW, playing with my thingy was precipitated by Billy playing with BlogPeoria’s thingies. Blame the Blogfather.

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The Pekin Area Chamber of Commerce has started blogging. They actually have multiple blogs running, including one dedicated to the Marigold Festival and another to the Pepsi Marigold Medallion Hunt. There are also Chamber-related photos (ribbon cutting & ground breaking ceremonies, Puttin’ On Pekin breakfast photos, etc.) online at Picasa.

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I didn’t realize that Vonster is famous.
Heh.

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Ed Emmons, chronic curmudgeon of the Pekin Daily Times editorial page, has entered the blogosphere. For those who aren’t familiar with Ed’s work, he’s a frequent writer of letters to the editor in the local paper. From the complaints on his blog, we’d see even more of his letters if many weren’t rejected [...]

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Did you catch this article in the Journal Star this morning? I’m wondering how this will play with Mr. Billy Dennis, the Peoria Pundit.
Money quote from Peoria City Councilman Ryan Spain:
‘Will It Play in Peoria?’ still has some real good legs on the national scene. Some (in Peoria) are tired of the slogan, [...]

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Tim McGinnis has entered the public blogosphere at his own self-titled site, joining fellow WHOI anchor Jen Christensen, the News Anchor Mom.
Welcome to the fray, Tim!
Addendum: Sorry … I shouldn’t forget that Mark Welp and Meghan Fisher also have their own blogs.  My apologies.
Jeesh … you guys are bloggin’ fools!

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Well, new for me at least. Those familiar with the Peoria area blogosphere will recognize it as Peoria Illinoisan’s old theme.
Apparently PI switched because some readers were having trouble posting their comments. If anyone has a problem posting, please email me at knightindragonland@yahoo.com.
Addendum: I didn’t use widgets with my old theme. Widgets [...]

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Wow … based on multiple local blog posts of late (here at the Peoria Chronicle, here and here at Peoria Pundits), the spirit of Joe McCarthy lives on in Central Illinois.  I think some local bloggers and their commenters have been watching too many re-runs of Red Dawn and Amerika.  It’s like the Red Scare [...]

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I want to thank the crew at WHOI for inviting me on for their “Connected” segment this evening, especially Meghan Fisher, Nishi Gupta (my first contact at the station) and Tim McGinnis. Tim did a great job of talking me through the process and set my nerves at ease.
I have to agree with Eyebrows [...]

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I’m going to be a guest on WHOI News at Five this afternoon. We’ll be talking about Jake Grys and racism in Pekin. Yeah … no controversy whatsoever. We’ll see how many death threats I get this time. Wish me luck!

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I guessed that Randall Emert Sr. would not stay away from the blogosphere for long.  His former blogger persona Emtronics is no more – deleted for the second time since I’ve been blogging.
Now Randall has re-christened himself the Peoria Antipundit and is back to blogging, offering a no-holds-barred perspective from the south side of Peoria.
Randall [...]

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… I’ll actually make it to a blogger bash.
I’m really not dissin’ you guys, I swear. I know, I know … I’ve been blogging for close to a year now, and I still have yet to attend a bash. Unfortunately I had a meeting at work that started at 5:30 and lasted until [...]

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Jeep2000, the anonymous purveyor of the new “Support your local central Illinois businesses” blog, has tagged me. Now I apparently have to tell everyone why I blog.
Here, in no particular order, is why mild-mannered Matt Weidman became the blogger A Knight in Dragonland …
1) I’m an opinionated S.O.B.
2) I enjoy talking to myself. [...]

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Many thanks to Billy Dennis over at Peoria Pundits for adding his voice to the call to get Jake Grys and his family on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
In case you missed my original post or the follow-up, here’s a little background about Jake, the link to his Easter Seals Ambassador page and some information about [...]

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Many thanks to Edgar Sandoval at Market 117 for his post encouraging folks to sign the “Jake’s Declaration of Independence” petition.  The signature total on the petition is up to 4620 at the time of this post, and Jake’s petition is one of the 50 “most active” and “most popular” at GoPetition.com.

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