Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Voice: Tip of the Quill

Courtesy of the lovely Ms. Kim.

My friend Min Jung recently posted this poem from Pablo Neruda on her weblog, and I thought I’d pass it along. Memepoetry, if you will. Saddest Poem I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: “The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.” The night […]

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Farewell, neighbor.

For those of you who haven’t heard, Mr. Rogers passed away this morning. He was 74, and had been the host of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” for thirty years. That’s a lot of kids, sneakers, sweaters and owl puppets. A moment of silence for another Good Thing passing. (And you know what? Nobody will ever mourn […]

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Ooops.

Due to an oversight on my part, I accidentally left my friends Hillary and Ken Tisdale off my blogroll, over there to the left. Sorry about that, guys.

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Various and sundry.

The last couple of days – and, indeed, the next couple of weeks – have been/will be busy, full, erratic and fun. If weblog entries are brief, well, simply know that I’m trying to unplug and see more of my friends. Recent conversations have driven the point home that facetime is waaaay more fulfilling than […]

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Back on the air.

Our server was down all weekend due to it actually being physically moved to a new home, but now we’re back, and regular posting will hopefully soon follow.

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Today in Inkblots: Camper Van

Today in Inkblots: Camper Van Beethoven, Cigarettes and Carrot Juice critiqued by Cassie Wagner. You know, I’d heard of Camper Van Beethoven, and I’m a casual Cracker fan now, but I never knew there was a connection between the two until I read Cassie’s review. Very cool.

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I feel pretty…

An old friend of mine just called Inkblots “pretty”. As a guy, I take that as a weird compliment for one of my designs, but I’m still flattered. 🙂 The funny thing is that I consider this design to be pretty gender-neutral. What do you think? (Heh. I just tried to imagine Inkblots with a […]

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Today in Inkblots: Around the

Today in Inkblots: Around the Sound by Dawn Bustanoby. A collection of truly beautiful photographs from the Puget Sound area. I especially love the shot of the Space Needle and the Ferris Wheel… She’s got a beautiful eye for colors.

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Bummer.

From k10k comes the following buzzkill: both Shift and Cre@te Online are shuffing along after The Industry Standard and bidding us adieu. A confession: I never read Shift. The few times I picked up an issue at Borders, I wound up putting it right back down again because I was unimpressed by the whole package. […]

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Wuss rock.

Don’t get me wrong. I love They Might Be Giants. But when your iPod drops “Birdhouse in Your Soul” into the mix right after a 15-minute full-rage rant by Henry Rollins, it’s the mental equivalent of spark-tossing gear grinding, and it’s all you can do not to toss the sucker across the room with a […]

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