August 2007
44 posts
This typewriter makes me want to do violent things
I’m not opposed to typewriters, as a writer myself I even find them sort of sexy especially when they’re old and I’ve even wanted one for quite some time. BUT in the hands of our receptionist the typewriter becomes this awful-hateful-spitefully-annoying thing. For the past two days she has busied herself with typing a one page entry form for an agent at our company. Two days,...
James Baldwin Letter to his Nephew
Dear James: I have begun this letter five times and torn it up five times. I keep seeing your face, which is also the face of your father and my brother. I have known both of you all your lives and have carried your daddy in my arms and on my shoulders, kissed him and spanked him and watched him learn to walk. I don’t know if you have known anybody from that far back, if you have loved...
Bits of Poetry
from eventually i will be mostly lipid by Blake Bulter most of the day i spend sitting in front of the computer. my rss feed keeps me up to date to friend’s and other writers’ blogs. i look at the same sites every day either because they are bookmarked in the main toolbar or they are in the drop down menu and all i have to do is click even if i know there’s no new content there. often i’ll look at...
The Crack Head Nod:…they’re just napping
I’m not sure why I’m so crack head obsessed right now, maybe it was the post from craigslist that sent me into a tizzy. Or maybe it’s the fact that I have a particular closeness (in proximity) to them now, but whatever it is, they’re definitely on my mind. Sunday post washing clothes as we (my cousin and I) pushed our huge piles of newly cleaned laundry down the street, my cousin stopped and...
New Music Mondays
I just heard Chungking and I sort of love this song, the british duo of Jessie Banks & Sean Hennessey are sort of like the Gossip, but I have to say I like the lead singers voice a little more and they’ve got a very nice disco-ey vibe. Plus its a great pick me up for a slow Monday morning (and even better to rock out to friday night). Check out “Love is here to stay (Kissy...
The List: 5 Albums for Dark Days
5. The Four Seasons (Specifically “Winter” Concerto No. 4 in F minor)- Antonio Vivaldi Moody and metaphoric, as well as time tested. 4. Lady in Satin- Billie Holiday Billie’s voice, broken and raspy, is enough. 3. Kind of Blue- Miles Davis It’s a perfect album no matter the time, but when you’re kind of blue it’s Godly. 2. Ágætis Byrjun-Sigur Ros The arrangements to this album are brilliant in...
Crack is Whack. Or is it...
I was discussing with my cousin all the things I do that are kind of a waste of time, but a necessity of life. Like showering. It takes up time, its not that fun most of the time, and generally if people didn’t have to do it (and just stayed clean) they’d say you know what, I don’t think I’m going to shower, unless I feel like it. So I started running a tally of all the things of that nature. ...
“Well, have fun and watch your wallet and never sit in the front seat of a cab.”
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Prose (Wall Decals)
A friend sent me this link today. Blik creates these cool sticker-like wall graphics that are self adhesive and removable, which I think is great, but the coolest (at least to me) is the prose graphics. This is pretty amazing both from a design aspect and as a lover of words. Basically you send your favorite short text, the wall dimensions and anyother details and they send you the decals. I...
The Lame Place (a modern workplace anti-fairytale)...
One day this company, that will remain nameless (which may or may not be the place that I work), decided that they needed to rebrand themselves. So they had a bunch of marketing companies submit proposal’s, nixed the best and most creative companies and opted instead for a very prestigious (though this can’t be confirmed) but very boring firm. This prestigious yet boring firm interviewed...
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New Music Mondays
Talib Kweli and Justin Timberlake: Nature. Five years ago if you had of mentioned that this was a possibility I would have laughed, but Justin has been a lot more active in the hip hop community over the past year or so (not to mention he had the album of 2006), singing back up (a la John Legend style) for some pretty hot tracks. I must say that there is something about Talib Kweli’s voice that...
