great smokies fall courses 2009 just arrived in my inbox. i want to sign up for a class, but that would cost money. i could teach another writing class at the flood gallery fine arts center, & that might earn some money. this quandry may turn philosophical: social objects vrs capital objects?
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i hate scanning through my inbox & finding email i haven’t replyed to in 3 months…
the last legal high
in other news, the homemade cappuccino i made this morning using my coffee press turned out surprisingly well…
art & science & cover design
i knew i was going to get in trouble when i started criticizing magazine cover designs… a wise man would keep his mouth shut… but i’m a fool & attempted to articluate that good book &/or magazine cover design is a combination of art & science culminating in creative expressions within the framework of sacred geometry…
listening to a public conversation on reinhold niebuhr & the american present…
somedays i want to move to portland…
… just so i can hang out all day at powell’s books
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
T.S. Eliot (via crookedtooth)
75% of college students said they would prefer print to digital texts.
Students Give E-Book Readers Mixed Reviews – WSJ.com (via fluffynotes)
good thing i started my monday last night around 9 p.m.
it’s been quite a busy morning. i had to produce a 10 minute audio broadcast before noon. then there was an unexpected meeting followed by several micro-meetings. now a late lunch with a good book & then on to print design projects.
the dirty little secret to this quasi-productivity… i haven’t checked email yet today. #fb
yesterday i had lunch with poet donald hall… sort of… i finished reading his memoir unpacking the boxes during lunch at jack of the wood. #fb
deltafoxtrot: inothernews: FOREBEAR, AND LEGACY President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to Chief Joseph Medicine Crow during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama presented the medal, the highest civilian honor in the United States, to 16 recipients during the ceremony. Medicine Crow, 95, became the first of his tribe to receive a master’s degree, in anthropology. He is the oldest member of the Crow and the tribe’s sole surviving war chief – an honor bestowed for a series of accomplishments during World War II. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty via the Chicago Tribune)
finally…
English language, give me a break. “Sanction” = to approve or to disapprove. “He sanctioned the deal.” #communicationfail
cnn video: charging for online news… features the financial times… there’s a lot buzz recently about paid online content…
(Source: http://i.cdn.turner.com/)
@t_f:
not sure if i like sending tumblr posts to twitter… – any tumblr out there have an opinion on that feature? tumblr.com/xwz2o3b…
i like turning it off, there’s still the option box to send a post if you want.
yeah, i like that option of turning off the ‘send to twitter’ box in tumblr… i like how tumblr allows users to view their twitter feed (like tweetdeck)… it’s a feature ping.fm doesn’t have…
i gave up blogging
for almost four years i had maintained a blog (almost daily, between 2004 to 2008) & decided to pull the plug. i took a hiatus from blogging & experimented with microblogging & tumble-logging. but after reading this (“…a blog, and trace the narrative of a person, a poet…” [typing space]), i am reconsidering a return to quality blogging (yes, there’s a distinction – within the 130 million blogs worldwide – of quality content). but, i’m not sure if tumblr is a suitable format for blogging.
Getting my hair cut. Man, I wish I had the confidence to pull off a Morrissey flip. Unfortunately, It would probably look atrocious.
no way… just got my hair but too…
Did you cut it short? What will Asheville do without you two long haired dudes? hehe
yeah, well, shorter than i’ve had it in two or three years… i guess it’s shoulder length b/c i can still pull it back in a small ponytail & look somewhat professional at the office…
it’s raining… & there’s not enough coffee to lift my heavy eyelids…
Getting my hair cut. Man, I wish I had the confidence to pull off a Morrissey flip. Unfortunately, It would probably look atrocious.
no way… just got my hair but too…
fornale
cover art for the poetry workshop chapbook. cover photo & design © 2009 matthew mulder. cover price $8. contact me to reserve your copy.
I rarely hand write.
vela: So when I started writing a note, I paused after a word I typically misspell. For a second I found myself waiting for the red squiggle to appear. FML
at a poetry reading yestarday afternoon, a poet confessed to loosing seven years of poetry when her computer crashed.
my notebooks contain sketches and drafts. composing poems in analog form first is how i begin the process. entering the content into my mac is considered part of the revision process.not that i’m gloating. notebooks can be easily lost, misplaced or stolen.
still, i suspect yesterday’s prizing-winning poet uses a pc.
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
“give power to designers”
—Jacek Utko
(Source: http://video.ted.com/)
For poets, painting is full of atavistic vocabularies. Painters, on the other hand, have always looked to poets to articulate what we might call their sublime backwardness.
martin earl, ‘poets & painters’
Coffeehouse Junkie 