Diane Ruggiero, Superintendent of Cultural Arts for the city of Asheville, has launched a new blog to discuss her work and the city’s cultural programs. There’s already some interesting discussion taking place there.

Here’s a bit of what she says she has in mind:

“I think I am the only ‘bureaucrat’ (notice the lower-case ‘b’) guest blogger. As I blog, I hope to share an alternate point of view to certain issues and explore the role of a municipality in the arts. I also feel that what we’ll notice are a lot of similar challenges and concerns.  I’ll also just blog some fun stuff every now and then.”

Go here for more:

http://blog.artsusa.org/2008/12/03/greetings-from-asheville-nc/

One cannot help but be suspicious of anyone who ‘lauches’ anything, eh?

Good point, Ralph. Accordingly, I’ve fixed the spelling.

I can’t help it, Jon—I am an editor of long standing (anyone got a chair?). Killing typos is a passion. Spelling and grammatical usage requires constant vigilance.

Written English is not a game for the squeamish, eh? But it IS a game; infinitely malleable, soaring and swooping to the heights and valleys of human experience.

But, upon reconsideration, I believe ‘lauch’ works here.

Forget I mentioned it.

From her entry:
I’m looking forward to “talking” with all of you.

She doesn’t seem all that anxious since she hasn’t had a post for nearly two weeks.  Guess she’s too busy to “talk” with us.