About This Blog

About Hanne Blank
I’m a writer, editor, historian, public speaker, cook, housekeeper, and general-purpose troublemaker. If you’d like to see my professional website, click here.

What you need to know, really, is that I’m a ne’er-do-well radical thought-philanthropist. A swirly cream center of passionately concerted creative humanism in a crunchy, snarky, kvetchtastic shell. I have Y-ray vision, a wooden nickel or two, and a big collection of itches I like to scratch. I’m Bad Kirk and Good Spock out drinking with Dorothy Parker, Messalina, Anne Bonney, and Winnie the Pooh.  I’m also Good Kirk and Bad Spock nursing a hangover with Empress Wu, Madame de Sevigny, the Little Mermaid, and Celeste Chabrillon. I like storytellers, rogues, autodidacts, magicians, bookworms, polymaths, fire-breathers, fire-eaters, good cooks, hearty eaters, most cats, and good dogs.

Copyright Information
This blog, and all content therein except where otherwise noted, is copyright to Hanne Blank. All Rights Reserved. Please contact me (myfirstname dot mylastname at gmail dot com) if you would like to excerpt something, or if you would like to discuss a republication.

General Guidelines
1. No anonymous comments are permitted.

2. Your comment does not obligate me to leave you a response.

3. Comments I find inappropriate will be deleted. Period. Please note that “inappropriate” is a highly subjective status and that I am the only person whose subjectivity will be taken into account on this matter.

4. This is a blog, not a democracy.

5. I have a pretty good idea of what I’m comfortable publishing to the whole of the Internet and what I’m not. It is rude and intrusive for readers to demand further details, whether they do so publicly in a comment or privately in an e-mail. If it were any of your business, you’d already know.

6. I don’t accept advertisements. Don’t ask.

7. This journal does not have a request line.

8. Requests for professional information should be dealt with via the appropriate channels, listed here for your convenience. My speakers’ agency is SoapBox.

9. If you need books, please contact your local bookstore. I cannot provide free books for the asking.

10. This is a journal, not a public forum for open debate, and I’m paying for the bandwidth. If you engage in a truly protracted exchange here, I may ask you to move it to some other venue.