// Brain brownout… flux capacitor needs more power… less internet connectivity.
Asheville Brewing tonight? We’ll be at the Coxe Ave one with some friends to watch the debate. Maybe we’ll see you there.
Sorry, not tonight. Lost my bus pass and need to finish revisions and cover design for a book to be published soon.
From How magazine’s blog (link):
“If you’re a designer, one of the things you can do right now is taking steps to improve (and prove) your value to your clients and employer…”
Obviously written by someone who is trying to keep their job at How magazine.
Poetry reading at Malaprop’s Bookstore this Sunday, Oct. 19, 3 PM. The advance poetry class that I am attending will present their work with a public, free reading.
This marks my return to Malaprop’s. It has been over two years since I read my work in that place (http://1000blacklines.blogspot.com/2006/06/blind-date-with-poetry.html). A lot has happened in three years. I trust that will show when I read my new work.
From How magazine’s blog (http://blog.howdesign.com/In+These+Uncertain+Times.aspx): “If you’re a designer, one of the things you can do right now is taking steps to improve (and prove) your value to your clients and employer…”
Obviously written by someone who is trying to keep their job at How magazine.
From Ad Age (link): “The New Yorker… ad pages sank 22.3%; Blender… drop[s] 24.6%… SmartMoney, which fell 25.7%; Country Weekly, itself 26.8% lower… Coastal Living, down 27.9%; and U.S. News & World Report, down 28.2%. “Gainers included Men’s Journal, up 10.8%; In Touch, up 12.7%; House Beautiful, up 13.2%, Fast Company, up 31.1%; and OK, up 34.4%.”
// Brain brownout… flux capacitor needs more power… less internet connectivity.
// Looking for a downtown dive with food and wifi.
// Off to a meeting about a Moog catalog design project.
From NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794): “Switching from task to task, you think you’re actually paying attention to everything around you at the same time. But you’re actually not,” [neuroscientist Earl] Miller said.
From the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/26/poetry.trains.oriordan): “trains sit deeper in the poet’s psyche; they become freighted with meanings both sublimated and exposed”
According to Rafe Needleman in an Ad Age (http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=131655) article.
For me (who became a Twitter user less than a month ago), Needleman may be correct. Regarding Twitter, it is merely an info aggragater; at least that’s the way I use it. Inversely, I rarely visit Twitter except to follow the news of a few people (which is pointless because most of the people I follow supply the same info using other services like Facebook).
Edgy Mama recently mused about it on Twitter (http://twitter.com/edgymama/statuses/959014214): “Wondering why folks want to follow me here when I hardly ever Twitter?” There are other, more efficient services to keep up to date with people in your social networks, but Twitter isn’t one of them.
From NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794): “Switching from task to task, you think you’re actually paying attention to everything around you at the same time. But you’re actually not,” [neuroscientist Earl] Miller said.
From the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/26/poetry.trains.oriordan): “trains sit deeper in the poet’s psyche; they become freighted with meanings both sublimated and exposed”
// Did I mention I’ll be reading poetry @ Malaprops this Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 3 PM? I’ll be reading my work along with other local poets.
//Which would you chose? A book of poetry by Randall Jarrell? The Savage Sword of Conan, Vol. 1? Or a book titled, Pagan Christianity?
// Automating one’s social networking status is easy. Automating one’s cash flow is more challenging.
// Three cups of Velvet Hammer. Three hours of fist pumping metal music. A vendor who can’t follow the !@#$ instructions. I lurve Mondays.
// OK, I’m really getting tired of the office doorbell.
It’s official, Oct. 19 – Poetry Reading @ Malaprops @ 3 PM. I’ll be reading my work along with other local poets.
// Enjoying Clawhammer (Oktoberfest Lager by Highland Brewing Company) as celebration for finishing design work on the weekend.
// Finished reading a Randall Jarrell book.
// Thinking about marketing… wondering about Wall Street… considering poetry… for some reason this all makes me very thirsty.
Coffee and poetry: This morning I was working at The Dripolator.
Coffeehouse Junkie 