BLOGGER INTERVIEW! :: The Spangly Princess
du Nord, June 4, 2008
Italian football. Roman politics. World War I. Shopping. Behold the unique cocktail shaken by Vanda Wilcox, a.k.a. Spangly Princess. In the course of her ever-deepening fixation with AS Roma, the daily oddity of life in Italy and her career as an actual-factual history scholar, Vanda has created a blog like no other. Let's learn a bit more, shall we?Q: How and why did you start Spangly Princess, and how has it evolved?I started my blog back in 2005 when I was still a doctoral student and living in the UK. It started off pretty randomly as something to occupy my mind during my part-time job which involved long late-night shifts in a university library, and I was trying to avoid studying... you know how it goes. I didn't even really choose a name, I just stuck with what I'd been using online since about 2000 on various message boards. I think this might be kind of offputting to people, especially now that I mostly blog about football, but it's too late to change it now. Q: I have not done a comprehensive study