October 2009
September 2009
“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty,...”
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sarahspy:
Here’s the #1 lesson you learn working in advertising (and this has stuck with me, to my advantage, my whole working life):
Nobody wants to read your shit.
Let me repeat that. Nobody–not even your dog or your mother–has the slightest interest in your commercial for Rice Krispies or Delco batteries or Preparation H. Nor does anybody care about your one-act play, your Facebook page or...
kari-shma:
Hot Chocolate | You Sexy Thing
The Comfort of Quilts
The quilt pattern, Kansas Trouble, will not produce a calming effect, no matter what fabric is used. Earlene Fowler Kansas Trouble
Quilts announce hidden murders, desperate attractions, hidden designs, a mother’s heart spread over space. Star of David, Story Book, Weddings Rings — old names, homey on the bed. Stored away, they hold hope: some body will lie beside, make new the...
The Elements of Style →
Best book ever, available online.
All-encompassing tech-guide for writers, fledgling...
1. Something that writes (pen, pencil, crayon, what-have-you)
2. Something to write on (I recommend paper mostly if not completely free of other writing)
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13 Things to Do with a Moleskine Notebook →
I’m not sure why this headline (and the subsequent article) make me want to find the author, tear off his face and force-feed it to the editor in question.
Could it be that 6 of the 13 things are “logs”? (one might as well be) Could it be that another apt title would be “13 Things to Do with Paper”?
Also, why capitalize “Do” and not “With”?...
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Web 2.0 is the new trend and it will impart the needed boost to engage your website visitors and turn them into paying customers. Is web 2.0 easy to get? Yes, it is.
I’m so glad I opened my email this morning. Now I know web 2.0 is easy to get.
I don't get it.
baxterp:
I think it’s kind of like how women couldn’t show their ankles at the turn of the century —- something that seems absolutely absurd nowadays.
Soooo, pretty much at any hour of the night you can show a grisly murder — blood, brains, etc. After ten p.m. you can show male buttocks. Occasionally you can even say the “s” word (it barely registered for me when Dr. Green, dying of cancer,...
Mac and cheese
Evrt asked for my mac and cheese recipe. I have two, actually, this one being the more traditional one. It also lends itself to deep frying.
Oh no, you say? I say, Oh yes.
Macaroni and Cheese
1 lb dry elbow macaroni
1 table spoon butter
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk (use 2% at least)
1/2 lb cheddar cheese, shredded
1/4 cup parmesan cheese, grated
2 teaspoons finely chopped...
My favorite pencil is the Berol Mirado Black...
Recommendations for a favorite pen?
The Art Of The Contact Sheet →
Those beautiful magazine portraits of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are usually accepted at face value. But the perfect cover photo is usually the product of much trial and error; it’s one of dozens of frames (or hundreds if we’re talking digital) — and just might even be an accident itself.
This is the idea behind a new book called The Contact Sheet, recently published by Ammo...
The problem with growth
Large software companies have a problem, and I’m part of it. I’m a problem for them because I won’t automatically update to the latest and, according to marketing, greatest version of their software. For major photo editing, I still use Photoshop CSII. For web development work, I divide my time between BBEdit and some version of Dreamweaver so old it doesn’t have numbers...
Sometimes a good ‘unfollow’ is just the thing to lower your blood pressure.
Son of a..
ckck:
As grateful as I am when someone on Tumblr likes or reblogs my own photographs, every now and then comes along someone who sees fit to eradicate any information that I made it, and it pisses me off.
Sure, I can understand that some want a “clean” look to their blog, without a bunch of text under the photos, or when you’re reblogging something with five other names inlined that reblogged...
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To help speed summer's exit
I am officially switching the evening beverage from lager beer to red wine. We’ll consider beer again towards the end of March.
Please note: weekend beverage choice is still wide open, though I’d encourage you to be at least somewhat seasonally appropriate. And no Coors Light, ever.
Ever.
i am going to sit here until this gets done.
richtong:
and then it does.
That’s usually how it works.
“The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not...”
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Or hers
