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Pay No Attention to the People in Front of the Curtain
Dear Turner Classic Movies (TCM): I fell in love with you years ago. Who wouldn’t love a cable channel that broadcasts (and re-broadcasts (and, all right, re-re-broadcasts)) timeless movies, often in black-and-white, that otherwise would have faded into obscurity years ago? True, I had moments of doubt (they happen in the best of relationships). Mostly, [...]
Scuba? Not Your Real Saturday Post…
…but I just had to share this. It’s suspenseful, in a humorous way. And it’s funny — in a suspenseful way. Or maybe it’s just me. (Discovered at the Out of Character blog.)
Morning Instructions
From whiskey river: On Angels All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams. Short is your stay here: now and then at a matinal hour, [...]
Bowery Bums and Bag Ladies… But Writers, by God
Ah, the writing life. We know it’s a stereotype, (almost?) never true, but the image remains skulking around our collective unconscious: The disheveled hair. The soulful eyes, staring out the window of an upper-floor barely-furnished apartment in which the heat has been turned off, a “scarf” — fabric torn from the edge of a bedsheet [...]
Night Plus Light Makes Right
From the toxel.com design blog: Light writing is a form of stop motion animation wherein still images captured using the technique known as light painting are put in sequence thereby creating the optical illusion of movement for the viewer. Two examples: Impacto Criativo (Creative Impact) Created by Propague and MidiaEffects with 2 cameras, 1700 clicks, [...]
Too Much Time, Not Enough Seconds
You may have already seen this (un-embeddable) video — title: “everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy” — of comedian Louis CK on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. (Hat tip to moonrat.) If not, do that now and then return here. We’ll wait. [whistling, staring into space, picking up newspaper and re-reading Dilbert, Doonesbury, Get Fuzzy, and For [...]
Bibliobibuli
Got a couple of words for you. The first is the one in this post’s title. This is: …a word coined by H. L. Mencken which means “people who read too much and so are generally oblivious to the world around them.” Many of you probably know such people. And then there’s dord. Yes: dee-oh-are-dee. [...]
The Look of a Writer’s Blog: Putting Readers at Ease
[This borders on "for geeks only" territory. But I think it's worth at least some attention if you aspire to get -- and keep -- a reading audience for your words on the Web.] A highly respected site for Web-site designers, typographers, and so on, is called A List Apart. It’s been around for years, [...]
Of Time, Things Small, and Things Green
From whiskey river: The Moment Walking the three tiers in first light, out here so my two-year-old son won’t wake the house, I watch him pull and strip ragweed, chicory, yarrow, so many other weeds and wildflowers I don’t know the names for, him saying Big, and Mine, and Joshua — words, words, words. Then [...]
