The V Word is Venango County's Vegetarian and vegan support and awareness group. The site is distressingly low on, you know, content, so the best bet may be to friend them on MySpace and wait for updates. I can, however, tell you that they are looking for "people to hand out materials in support of animal rights and vegetarianism" at the February 25th Newsboys Concert at 7pm at Grove City College

Which actually freaked me out for a variety of reasons - The Newsboys? they're still alive?! (As it turns out, I'm way out of the zeitgeist here, these guys are booking arenas!) Followed with "Grove City College"? Are you guys crazy? If I were a member of Peta2 (and who's to say I aren't, thank you very much.) I'd rather face a thousand drunk SRU frat boys than a crowd of conservatives going to see an 80's has been Christian band. Once more into the breach dear friends. Godspeed.

Since it's President's Day, you'll want this comprehensive list of the Presidents on The Simpsons.

Speaking of such, ever wonder what Washington looked like as he stomped through the Western PA wilderness taking and receiving potshots for and from the natives? Me either, until I read this.

Finally, I think we all knew the marriage between NasCar and Harlequin had to happen, I just wish it could have benefited local writer Jamie Denton.

The region's foremost nature photographer, John M Karian, took time to answer my search for Jerry Sowden prints:

I've purchased prints at the Transit Fine Art gallery. His work is now available at Victorian City Art and Frame

Thanks John. And thanks for dropping by!
Victorian City Art & Frame can be found at
1273 Liberty Street
Franklin, PA 16323
(814) 437-9509
(800) 909-1444
viccity@csonline.net

While you're there, pick up some of John's work as well!

I've updated the Venango County Author's Bibliography to include my new book, Masterpieces of Beat Literature ; Jill Mattson's book, Transformative Power in Sound, Intelligence, Health and Energy through the Magic of Music; John M Karian's Allegheny Waterway and Wetland Splendors and Allegheny Wetland Splendors: Up Close; and Jamie Denton's new romance, The Matchmaker. I also cleaned up a few MLA errors. Download it from the link on the left, take a look at it, tell me what I'm missing or have done wrong, and make sure you circulate it. If you're using it for educational purposes (schools and libraries for example) and need the list in bulk, drop me a line and we can work something out to get you as many copies as you need for the price of postage.

Speaking of Rouseville's romance writer Jamie Denton (who has an appearance schedule that I envy and, from her photo on her webpage, looks incredibly good for a six time over grandma. Apparently love (or at least writing about love) really does keep one young:

For a free autographed bookplate, cover flats, magnet, bookmarks and other fun goodies,send a self addressed stamped 9x12 envelope with $.87 postage to the postal address below.Or you can send a regular business size self-addressed stamped envelope with $.39 postage for autographed bookplate, magnet, and bookmarks.
Jamie Denton
PO Box 39
Rouseville, PA 16344

Do me a favor and tell her you saw it on venangago-go.blogspot.com

It's embarrassing to admit that I hadn't realized that Titusville's Four Sons Brewery had closed.

The Franklin Club is looking for a buyer. Which is kind of strange, because if the Celtic can't find a buyer for 400K (or 525K, depending to whom you're talking), what chance does a building that has a long list of maintenance issues (does that split pillar on the upper deck frighten anyone else...) have unless it's at a bargain basement price -- and that would really be a shame.

Venangoland tackles the Franklin Club issue as well...

Clicking around last night I ran into the Allegheny Musarium site. Although it's a well thought out proposal, my first thought was to be cynical. But then I realized that two years ago, I would have laughed heartily about the idea of a hunting and fishing museum becoming a reality...