May 2012
3 posts
stack o' books
Just finished:
The Disappointment Artist - Jonathan Lethem
A collection of essays in the “humorous but touching” vein. Not bad, quite enjoyed several, but it wound up in a rather self-indulgent fashion. If you read this one, just stop after the one about Cassavetes.
Still reading:
My Faraway One - the letters of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe, edited by Sarah...
“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is...”
– Primo Levi (via nevver)
April 2012
3 posts
1 tag
March 2012
6 posts
I dreamt last night that I was lying on the ground, looking at burning sticks falling from the sky, and a mountain lion crept up to me. It laid down beside me and took my shoulder in its mouth. I could feel its teeth; it hurt but it didn’t bite through. The mountain lion let go and then went away.
I’m sure it’s a metaphor for something.
Dinner table discussion began with Mr. Jefferies noting that Thing 1 looked a good bit like Luke Skywalker (M. Hamill version). This led to a discussion of who that would make everyone else.
The Ex - Darth Vader, clearly.
Me - Padmé, by association with aforementioned and my maternalness.
Thing 2 - well, he didn’t seem to want to be Leia, as would be indicated by the familial...
February 2012
1 post
January 2012
4 posts
a dispatch from the city of angels
2:00pm wheels down LAX
2:25pm retrieve baggage from carousel and stash coats inside
2:45pm board Flyaway bus headed for Union Station (coach style bus, comfy, fare $7)
3:20pm arrive at Union Station, retrieve luggage, buy metro TAP pass
3:35pm depart on Gold line train (light rail, above ground, fare $1.50) for Pasadena
4:00pm arrive Lake Station, Pasadena
4:20pm sitting in an outdoor cafe,...
“Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West (via brainpickings)
December 2011
4 posts
“It’s hard leaving money on the table, especially if you don’t know where your...”
– Why Designers Are Holding Themselves Back, Andy Budd
“Un jour, j’avais sept ans, mon grand-père n’y tint plus : il me prit par la...”
– Les mots, Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964. (via beauvoiriana)
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
3 posts
theartofhiding:
INFJ
“So therefore, I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my...”
– jack kerouac (via theartofhiding)
“Good Lord! supposing she wasn’t beautiful—supposing she was forty...”
– more from This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, which I am finding so delightful
September 2011
3 posts
La Cumparsita
Monday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. Sunday. I have danced the tango on all those days this week. I’ll dance it again tomorrow, Monday. And on Wednesday, too.
I’ve been attending various events at the Michigan Argentine Tango Club’s 10th Anniversary Celebration. Lots of new things to think about, many insights on how to be a better follower. But I’ve also just...
The education of all beautiful women is the knowledge of men. Rosalind had been disappointed in man after man as individuals, but she had great faith in man as a sex. Women she detested. They represented qualities that she felt and despised in herself—incipient meanness, conceit, cowardice, and petty dishonesty. She once told a roomful of her mother’s friends that the only excuse for...
“You know it’s not much to have a friend who knows all about you. But one...”
– Dr. Noah Praetorius (Cary Grant) in People Will Talk
August 2011
3 posts
currently reading update
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi: Oh! It’s two stories. Jeff in Venice was great. Loved it. Started Death in Varanasi and it’s like reading a completely different author. Hate it so far.
Have any of you out there read it? Worth plowing through?
currently reading
started
World Made By Hand, James Kunstler [so depressing, not sure how much farther I can go]
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Geoff Dyer [this should really be bumped to the top - I do so want to get through it]
The Book of CSS3, Peter Gasston [must write review]
The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser [scaring the pants off me, truth be told]
bridesmaids
Spending, Mary Gordon [recommended by...
July 2011
1 post
“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
– Gustave Flaubert, the New Shelton wet/dry (via nevver)
June 2011
4 posts
business cards in my satchel, in order of receipt
Christopher Norman (Producer & Song Writer): Coated stock, white. Rounded corners, two-sided. Strong sans serif font (Futura) in black and grey. Email and URL. [Modern and friendly, spare but not cold.]
James Sweeney (Information Architect, The Understanding Group): Heavy stock, white. Non-standard size, two-sided. Strong sans serif font (Helvetica) in black and grey, greyscale illustration...
May 2011
3 posts
reading queue
Turing: A Novel About Computation (Papadimitriou) [well under way]
Understanding Comics (McCloud) [last little bit to go]
The Glass Key (Hammett) [just started]
The Wisdom of Insecurity (Watts) [halfway]
Making Comics & Reinventing Comics (McCloud) [both unbegun but urgent]
The Fall (Camus) [thought I would race through, but enjoying it so much that I’m slowing down and savoring...
April 2011
3 posts
Tough day here in Mittenland.
Dad had surgery scheduled; it’s getting on 8pm his time and I haven’t heard word one way or another.
Younger son turned 14; it wasn’t my turn to celebrate with him this year.
Visit to dentist; two molars showing cracks, both need new fillings at least, one may need a crown.
Late-breaking good news and dinner out have lightened my spirits a bit;...
March 2011
4 posts
on composition
I did a sketch today while on the plane. There was a serious left-brain accounting vibe coming from the seat next to me; needed to counter act it.
So I tried to post it here. I still can’t see the post myself, only the fact that one of you kind readers has hit that cute little heart button on it. While I normally find that delightful, I find it extra delightful in this case.
You see,...
February 2011
28 posts
