February 2010
17 posts
“A chief virtue of digital books is said to be their economical size—they take up...”
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Kevin Hartnett, In Our Parent’s Bookshelves
I can’t imagine what it will be like for future generations not to experience getting to know someone by scanning their bookshelves, learning, by their lovingly worn condition, which novels they read over and over and over, and, by their perfectly...
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The Seabottom Dead Return (to go on O'Reilly)
Denied their restitution, the rest Illusioned by the rising oceans Notions of rapture, dead men Captured, capsized, baptized Revised, re-shod, re-souled wholly Without holes, washed up on shoals Like whalebone head to tailbone And rowboats upside down. Pull them into your reaching tide Your living waves undrowning brides And crowning kings with posey rings; The undead things write op-eds To...
Duh.
clientsfromhell:
Client: “I didn’t get anything.”
Us: “Sorry, our email is down.”
Client: “Can you just fax me the animated gif so I can see how it looks?”
Us: “Well, it’s about a dozen frames. (Joking) So we’d have to fax it like a flip book.”
Client: “Okay.”
Stood Up on Valentine's Day
For five minutes, telling jokes I hadn’t really prepared. They were written in blue ink on my left forearm, which I kept tilting to the sky to read. “Try it in the light!” one of the comics in the crowd yelled, and I did so, only to find that my handwriting was too illegible to be anything but fhqwhqgads. I talked about inventions, Dexter, and girlfriends I never had. Then I was...
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I unfollowed a bunch of people tonight....
It was you, and you, and you. Feel free to stop following me now, I never wanted you anyway. (Come back! You’ll miss my rap video!) Also, reading The Early Stories by John Updike as my pre-bedtime treat. There are 103 stories. I have read four of them so far, and (having never read anything of Updike before - boo! hiss! for shame, for SHAME) my impressions are thus: He’s better than...
carolinemartin:
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Notice all my drawings are from the same reverse...
It was a really elegant belly-flop.
