It’s bad when you recognize yourself in an Onion article…
Read on »Archives: September 2002
Missing Idgie, and visiting Spike
Whenever I’m home, I hear a noise, and think it’s Idgie. I start to look around, and then I remember. When I walk in the door after work, I open the door and say, “I’m home!” to the cat. I didn’t realize I did that every day until last night when I did it, and
Read on »Tim Goldman
Look, it’s Tim Goldman, a friend from college. At my job, we’ve been looking for an illustrator to do some work for us, and Rich was talking about this friend of a friend, a guy named Tim Goldman who lives in New York and does great artwork… and then it dawned on me it was
Read on »Goodby, Idgie
I had to put Idgie to sleep this morning. There was nothing they could do for her; her kidneys were already in failure and they couldn’t operate. I just lost my best friend.
Read on »My cat Idgie is very sick
My cat Idgie is very sick. It appears from x-rays that she had kidney stones. She’s staying at the vet’s tonight, and tomorrow we have to have another x-ray to make sure that’s what the problem is. If so, I may have to have her put to sleep.
Read on »Another Planet Lighting
Another Planet Lighting. Neat wall sconces and overhead lights.
Read on »propaganda posters for today’s news
Hands down my very favorite site of the month — propaganda posters for today’s news. Why didn’t I think of that?
Read on »Tacky Treasures
An important design-related site.
Read on »Bushisms
Slate’s Complete Bushisms: three years later, he still hasn’t learned a damned thing about coherent thought, much less English or public speaking. I posted a link to this article on Slate a couple of years ago, before the election. I checked back today to see if they keep it updated. Turns out they do, and
Read on »Wabi Sabi
I’ve written about it here before, but here are a few links about wabi Sabi: http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/WabiSabi http://www.stonebridge.com/wabisabi.html And a couple of books available: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0879058498/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1586850105/
Read on »Exhibit 13: paper debris from the WTC
Exhibit 13: paper debris from the World Trade Center that blew into a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Read on »You must be the change
You must be the change you wish to see in the world — Gandhi
Read on »Chicken Hawks
You know what Bush and all those right-wing politicians and pundits who want to invade Iraq were doing during the Vietnam war? I’ll give you a hint… it wasn’t fighting. Apparently it’s okay for YOU to go to war, but not them.
Read on »Bill Clinton on the Path to Peace
I didn’t realize until I read this piece on Salon Magazine how much I missed the man… Salon: The path to peace Our security policy should include five major elements: First, we should support President Bush and our military in finishing the job of getting Osama bin Laden and the other al-Qaida leaders out of
Read on »Overview of Changes to Legal Rights
In addition to the people we lost at the World Trade Center and at the Pentagon a year ago, we’ve lost some things that are also fundamentally important to our nation. We are no long a free country… our basic rights as Americans have been eroded in the name of “security” when in reality our
Read on »Lost U.S. city found as lake dries up
“Lost U.S. city found as lake dries up” All I can say is… cool. There’s apparently an old town under Geist Reservoir here in Indianapolis, too. On one of the online map companies, if you search for Geist, they still have a label for Germantown appearing in the center of the lake. I’ll endeavor to
Read on »Art Nouveau
Just collecting ideas about Art Nouveau for a new web design project I’m doing. Anatomy of an Exhibition – Art Nouveau, 1890-1914 Art Nouveau… the movement, the styles Art Nouveau Ceramic Tiles New York Museums Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha, l’apog de l’Art Nouveau Art Periods in France: ART NOUVEAU Art Nouveau Fonts from
Read on »schadenfreude
It took them an entire study to realize that schadenfreude (glee at the misfortune of others) happens when people resent those who have privileges without working for or deserving them, and those privileged people suddenly fall from grace. I would have thought that was self-evident. I have to take issue with one paragraph that’s totally
Read on »Ernie from Little.Yellow.Different
Ernie from Little.Yellow.Different is going to be on The Weakest Link sometime between November and February. I’ll have to actually watch the show now, because’s Ernie’s so cute. For a boy.
Read on »Car trouble/ big brother
Driving home from work — no annoying noise at all. I hope it was a fluke. I have an idea — when Roddy get’s voted off Big Brother 3 tonight (and he will) lets go to his house and kick his ass for making Amy Crews cry. What a dick.
Read on »Car trouble
So I went out to pay some bills at lunch, and as I was driving back, my car is making some wierd noise. I hope to god that it was a temporary thing, because there’s no way in hell I can afford to get anything fixed right now. Stupid car.
Read on »Labor Day Weekend Update
I had a hugely productive labor day weekend. I constructed my floor-to-ceiling bookcases and unpacked and organized all my books, which has had a profound effect on my psyche. I can read again! I feel so less… constrained. I also feel really rich — I have so many good books I can read, and I
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