My father was a skilled and productive writer. He published many novels, including the recently reissued National Book Award nominee The Balloonist. There were a few non-fiction books as well: some early scholarly work about Italian literature, a book about solo sailing around the world, and a series of literature study guides for students with [...]
In the news today, an 800-year-old Easter Egg: Giotto sneaked the Devil into a painting of St. Francis of Assissi. They speculate that he was annoyed with someone. Took some guts to do that, too. Disney may get very angry at little jokes in their movies but they haven’t yet burned someone at the stake [...]
Thanks, Tuliphead!
Severed Hand Salt and Pepper Shakers, originally uploaded by conradh. It’s always nice to bring some art to the office.
Sorry I haven’t read or posted much. I only post when I have something longish to say, and I don’t read because I’m an ADD’d freak drowning in telephone jargon lately.
from The Culture Ghost at Guys from Area 51
It was a challenge, alright. After several false starts, I figured out that using a drill was the best way to go about putting wire in an ice cube. After I figured that out, the adventure really began. I think this is ice cube number seven or so. http://bentobjects.blogspot.com/2008/06/you-asked-for-ice-cube-so-heres-ice.html
I did not know Richard well — he was a friend of a friend and I met him only twice — but I remember everything about him. We were both in our mid to late 20s and our mutual friends were a circle of artistic types, dreamers, dropouts, and successful people who wished they were [...]
Dan Goodsell’s Mister Toast consistently makes me happy.
http://solarwindstudios.blogspot.com/ Joe Hall takes pictures of auroras and other beauties of the North. Special attention pbd.