Today, we started excavating the back yard of the house in order to install a brick pathway from the gate at the side all the way back and around the pool. Boy, am I going to feel this one tomorrow. Shovelling is great exercise, and it’s going to look great once it’s done, but right […]
Wow. I hadn’t realized that Reading Rainbow, the PBS show hosted by LeVar “Geordi LaForge” Burton, has been going on for twenty years. I remember that show from when I was a kid… And now it’s in danger of going off the air if additional funding cannot be found. Full story at cnn.com. Any wealthy […]
Between Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists and The McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, I’m wondering if we’re seeing a literary resurgence towards “genre” fiction. One can only hope – a swing away from the midlife-crisis-on-paper school of literature can only be healthy. That, and there’s a real shortage of good, literary genre magazines […]
I just did a quick polish job on the design I’d posted on The Kingdom, for any of you that checked that out yesterday. Feedback, as always, is appreciated.
For those of you who enjoy the work of Chris Ware (of Jimmy Corrigan fame) or The Comics Journal, the time has come to take action. Fantagraphics Books got hosed to the tune of $70,000 when their distributor went bankrupt last year, and now they need to move as much inventory as possible to stay […]
So Evan just redesigned again, and his new look is very… I’m not sure if “Arts and Crafts” is the phrase I’m looking for, but it’s definitely pretty. He’s jumped on the squidfingers bandwagon, like Matt and countless others. If anyone’s wondering where the Inkblots background pattern came from, it’s a modified (with permission!) design […]
So Derek’s posting of songs has me thinking about other things that I could share. Since I’m not to that stage yet with my own music, I’ve decided to post an excerpt from my other novel project, The Kingdom, over at geoffreylong.com. In a nutshell, The Kingdom is the story of two brothers on the […]
So my recent barometer for the success of Apple’s iTunes Music Store has been the debut album by The Thorns, the new folk-rock supergroup made up of Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge and Shawn Mullins. It’s a little Crosby, Stills & Nash, a little The Mamas and the Papas… Close harmonies, great guitars. Great stuff. Anyway, […]
Maybe it’s just a different type of joy, but whenever I sit down to leaf through some academic journals to see what kind of thinking is going on in the ivory towers these days, I always get depressed. Why does academia always seem so joyless? Why is academic writing so dry, why does it constantly […]
My good man Derek has just posted the photos from Fray Cafe 3 at SXSW this year. I’m here, my good man Scott Andrew LaPera is here, Jish is here, an extremely accurate photo of Ben is here, and Brad is here. I miss these guys. On to Sedona!
