Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Voice: Tip of the Quill

ROTFLMAO.

Ladies and gentlemen, please step this way to the good Mr. Zeldman’s depiction of the morning-after call from Mr. GWB to Mr. SH. Heh heh heh.

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Weblogs I wish existed.

How wonderful would it be if we had weblogs for Salman Rushdie, Jamie Oliver, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, “Sourpuss” Franzen, and all these other young turks? Is there a connection between what these people produce and the time it takes to maintain a weblog? Is it possible to do both? In the case of […]

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Quick philosophical question.

Is it better to be a writer, or somebody that people write about? How about a writer that people write about? 😉

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On the State of the Union.

Well, $1.2B for alternative energy research is at least a concession to all of us out here hollering for an alternative attack on our dependency on Iraq. However, note he didn’t say anything truly ambitious, like the old “man on the moon” approach. While he could have said something ambitious and exciting, such as “By […]

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New macs = sort of wow.

Well, Apple came out with a lukewarm update to their PowerMacs today, and a kick-butt update to their Cinema Displays. They introduced a new 20″ monitor and cut the price of their 17’s from $999 to $699, but the best part came in the form of a price cut for their top-of-the-line 23″ HD Cinema […]

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Having difficulty.

I’ve now lost three posts to Blogger over the course of as many days. Anybody else having these problems?

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No funding for TIA.

Awesome. On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to block funding for the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness project. It’s not dead yet – the project is only being financially blocked until the Pentagon “explains the program and assesses its impact on civil liberties” – but it’s nice to know that at least some people in Washington […]

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Oh, wow.

Beautiful, beautiful photography over at The Blue Sea and Sails. Bonus points for elegant use of Flash and a title nicked from Czeslaw Milosz.

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Poetry on the radio.

Now there’s a good idea. CNN’s running a story on Scott Poole, a poet in Spokane, Washington who has a regular spot reading his poetry on NPR. He apparently shows up every Monday morning for two minutes: His poems air on Monday because “very little happens in the news on Monday,” Demarest said. “Monday is […]

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Eno’s got my back.

It would seem that no less than modern music legend Brian Eno agrees with many of my assessments on the current political clusterfuck landscape. To wit: This narrowing of the American mind is exacerbated by the withdrawal of the left from active politics. Virtually ignored by the media, the left has further marginalized itself by […]

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