the octahedron can be especially useful in book cover designs…
welikesnow: Sacred Geometry 1 (via Michæl.Paukner)
sometimes you just have to take a stand… pick up your junk & walk away…
tonight: Natasha Tretheway and Katherine Soniat to read at Posana Cafe at 8 pm.
a two-year absence from asheville, THE TRAVELING BONFIRES is back in asheville!
i’ll be reading some poems with other vagrant poets and musicians at firestorm cafe october 31. it’s free. it starts at 8:00 pm.
does ‘jack of all trades’ = ‘jack ass?’
it is inspiring for me to see public intellectuals debate with reason, civility & wit… also noticed in this sneak peak that dr. marvin olasky (world magazine editor in chief) appears to officiate the debate…
thomasfitzpatrick: Preview of the first 13 minutes of the forthcoming documentary “Collision”. The film follows renowned author and anti-theist Christopher Hitchens and Pastor Douglas Wilson as they debate the topic: “Is Christianity Good For The World?”. (via)
confession: recently, i rode in a shuttle from a hotel to an airport with dr. olasky… but i was too shy to say anything…
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tonight is poetry writing workshop at the flood gallery fine arts center… it’s raining… a prefect evening to soak in poetry & conversation…
not sure if it was the two advil, reading zen poetry, drinking herbal tea or taking a hot bath… but the horrible pain of monday is gone…
went for a walk into a lovely autumn afternoon & did not take a digital camera to record the fact of what i did…
watching a teaching on wisdom from mars hill…
to run along the river on a lovely fall morning seems such a simple desire, yet unattainable this morning.
i’m not sure if it’s seasonally allergies or maybe i finally succumbed to the virus the rest of the household has been dealing with all week, but i don’t have the energy to run a few miles on such a beautiful day.
One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur
remembering the death of jack kerouac…
Bloated, reactionary and guileless, his was a painful and undignified death, brought on my too much drink and dissolute living, played out in the presence of the mother whose apron strings he couldn’t seem to cut, and the wife who didn’t understand him. Venerated by his fans and dismissed by many critics… Kerouac has divided opinion as to his literary merit since his ungainly demise. But has his time finally come round again? (via)
been thinking a lot about jack kerouac recently… his life… his work…
for last few years i’ve had a yearning to visit norway… now i think i’d like to move there…
plainclothesman: jaredm: Damn! Look at Norway. Talk about the best of both worlds. National wealth and holiday entitlement Are holidays good for the economy? Personally, I’d take 30 days off over a big salary. Quality of life is not proportional to your bank account.
vagile
adjective • /ˈvædʒɪl/ • wandering; vagrant; free to move about.
very good resource… bookmarking this link now…
anin: Starting with layout.
the only remedy for the loneliness of this job is taking lunch at the fiddlin pig… soon as i walk in the door she has a booth ready for me and he’s got a tall glass of coke waiting at the table… makes me think maybe i should wait table instead of working from this dark cave of an audio bunker…
finished producing 120 minutes of audio capture (with various quality issues) in four days… in context, for every 2 minutes of final audio at least 1 hour of production goes into those 2 minutes… it’s been a long week in the audio bunker…
Want to Monetize the Web?
To monetize content requires a shift in thinking because one must move from sticking with the traditional push business model to accepting the web’s “pull” approach…. (via adage)
adage offers three ‘pull’ approaches:
- Use content to attract audiences
- Create a community to coalesce audiences
- Leverage the power of your community to drive revenue
two years in a row, edgy mama is featured in the least favorite feature of the mountain x… but edgy mama is in the top three for local bloggers… fickle readership? or poor survey questions?
GPOYW – business trip edition
America is no longer a Christian nation… that seems to be the top phrase for some politicians today, even with nearly 4 out of every 5 Americans claiming to be a Christian. And of course in Britain, Richard Dawkins helped support a wide-spread advertising campaign on buses, stating there’s “probably no God,” even though a recent census stated that nearly 70% of Britains claimed to be Christians.
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Coffeehouse Junkie 