December 2008
November 2008
“I saw the best mimes of my generation trapped in boxes, starving hysterical...”
– antichrista
Ideas for '09
I asked people on the Twitter to Toot me their ideas for projects I should do in 2009. Lotta yuk-yuks, a few B-minuses, and several bits of shiny gold.
My Five Six Favorites
Remy: - redesign the concept of how a technology conference/expo should run so that they’re not such a waste of everyone’s time.
Balut: Write about how successful late-bloomers with...
“If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster...”
– Attributed to Henry Ford
“So you tell me; what should I make? What could I do next year that might delight...”
– Me, thinking aloud about my projects for 2009. Nominate yours @hotdogsladies. Or just follow along.
Evans on the Line
Culled from the new LIFE archive of photos on Google:
Was Robert Evans often on the phone? You bet your ass he was.
“The dissemination of what’s important to the world is too significant a...”
– Jason Kottke, whose reputation as the winner of many popularity contests is well-earned by go-to nuggets like this one. Nicely put.
“New sign in my office: ‘How do you want your answer? (Choose two) Immediate....”
– Remiel
“Perhaps we could make large posters that simply say ‘Love this...”
– Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light™, in one of the 16 guidelines provided to the crew of his Christmas film.
“7. The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people...”
– Sister Corita Kent, Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules
“Remember, photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.”
– Arnold Newman
“It’s terrible to think that all I’ve suffered and all the suffering...”
– Robert Lowell
The Exile’s Return
by Robert Lowell
There mounts in squalls a sort of rusty mire,
Not ice, not snow, to leaguer the Hôtel
De Ville, where braced pig-iron dragons grip
The blizzard to their rigor mortis. A bell
Grumbles when the reverberations strip
The thatching from its spire,
The search-guns click and spit and split up timber
And nick the slate roofs on the Holstenwall
Where...
