Here we are, just (a few hours) under two weeks since the earthquake. We felt a decent jolt last night, which was the first one I've felt here since last Tuesday night (there have been two others we would normally have felt, but on Saturday morning we were driving, and on Saturday evening we were in …
Billy Collins, Roses, and beagles
I recently discovered the Slate magazine weekly poem column – well worth checking out. Each week a new poem read by the author (or, if the author is someone dead, read by Robert Pinsky). There's also a comments free-for-all, suitably titled “The Fray”. I've lurked a bit, but not joined. But again, worth having a …
Font Crimes – a rebuttal
Proving once again that he probably does a lot less work at work than he would like me to believe, my other half has pointed me towards an addition to the ‘in/appropriate font selection’ story. It's one of the Short Comic Monologues on Timothy McSweeney's website. Personally, I find it hysterical. But I should warn …
Font crimes
If you find yourself having strong opinions about the suitability (or otherwise) of various fonts for the purposes for which they are used, you may like to visit http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/. Having grown up in the era when computers went from being the domain of the nerdiest boy (why always boy‽) in the class; to being a sign …
Theraputic Cleanse
I came across this post on ReadWritePoem (now defunct) a wee while ago, which chimed with something I read in the fabulous Real Sofistikashun, by Tony Hoagland. It's in the section where he's talking about poets making a deliberate decision to move away from the style and/or themes of a previous collection (or collections). I …
A Dark Feathered Art 