// it’s nice to know i still have some beach sand in my camera from the trip to charleston… #fb

// finally, some coffee! spent the whole weekend w/o coffee due to 2 broken coffee presses… even the office coffee tastes good today. #fb

// she says, ‘you’ve been nice to me all weekend.’ i reply, ‘but the kidlingers think i’m genghis khan.’

// what ever happened to WNCNN, Mad Miss Mattie & others (http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/09/01/early-morning-mad-miss-mattie/)…1

NOTES:
1) “Early morning Mad Miss Mattie,” Scrutiny Hooligans, September 1, 2007, accessed May 30, 2009, http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/09/01/early-morning-mad-miss-mattie/ (page no longer available, web site deactivated)

tolle: successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly

when looking for a job in design/advertising/marketing

which site do you use talent zoo, creative hotlist or the creative group?

Johnny Depp Reading Jack Kerouac

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

Jack Kerouac Reads from “On The Road”

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

“How Much is a Magazine’s Content Worth?”

There’s a lesson here for publishers and marketers alike: impressions have nothing to do with engagement, and in the end, engaging content appropriately packaged will find its audience.

—Guy LeCharles Gonzalez1

NOTES:

1) Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, “How Much is a Magazine’s Content Worth? Part One,” May 26, 2009, FOLIO:, accessed May 26, 2009, http://www.foliomag.com/2009/how-much-magazine-s-content-worth-part-one (page no longer available, web site deactivated. FOLIO: ceased print publications in 2018 and shuddered digital publications in 20202)
2) Bob Sacks, “BoSacks Speaks Out: The Rise and Fall of FOLIO: A Mirror for the Magazine Industry,” July 22, 2025, http://www.bosacks.com, accessed April 15, 2026, https://www.bosacks.com/bosacks-speaks-out/bosacks-speaks-out-the-rise-and-fall-of-folio-a-mirror-for-the-magazine-industry
3) For further reading: “A magazine’s “rate base”… is the rate charged to advertisers in the magazine and is related to the circulation figures of the magazine…The higher the circulation the higher the cost to advertise in the periodical since it reaches more potential buyers.
FOLIO magazine’s Jason Fell wrote an informative article on this subject today:
…for the second half of 2009 made their rate base requirements for the period, many others, including some heavyweights, did not.
Of the 30 or so large circulation magazines with rate bases of 2 million or higher—including AARP, Time and Better Home & Gardens—Reader’s Digest and Playboy were the only titles to fall short of their circ. guarantee….
Generally, when a magazine doesn’t make its rate base, its publisher is required to issue refunds to its advertisers or make other concessions.”
John R. Austin, “Reader’s Digest, Playboy, Others Miss Rate Base,” February 16, 2010, gator1965.wordpress.com, accessed April 15, 2026, https://gator1965.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/reader%E2%80%99s-digest-playboy-others-miss-rate-base/

To ruminate, or to tweet, that is the question

“For some kinds of thought, especially moral decision-making about other people’s social and psychological situations, we need to allow for adequate time and reflection,” said… author Mary Helen Immordino-Yang.

(via Tweet this: Rapid-fire media may confuse your moral compass) (hat tip: monkeytypist and azspot)

This seems to contradict the premise of the best-selling book, Blink. The article continues:

The study raises questions about the emotional cost… of heavy reliance on a rapid stream of news snippets obtained through television, online feeds or social networks such as Twitter.

My take away: maybe it is best to marinate and ruminate than to tweet.

folio covered it first & now nyt gives it review of newsweek’s facelift… newsweek’s focus: ‘the reimagined magazine will include reported narratives that rely on intellectual scoops rather than informational ones and pair them with essayistic argument’ while nyt concludes… ‘The big talents and ambitious journalists that remain at Newsweek should probably spend less time reimagining the magazine and more time imagining a future when the physical product does not exist.’

// ah, it’s good to be back in the office… no sun, no beach surf, no ocean breeze… wake me up when the nightmare’s done…

Twitter is like golf. I feel like an idiot for doing it, but I have to admit that sometimes it’s fun.

The Ad Contrarian (via somethingchanged)

// got tagged by a yellowjacket while looking for books in the barn… didn’t know yellowjackets like old paperbacks so much…

// yeah, i know, i should be outside roasting some dead animal on a grill, rather than obsessing over details about the poetry workshop…

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

Steve Jobs (via ninakix) (via iamdanw) (via somethingchanged)

// ‘Facebook & the New Poetry Community’ (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/05/facebook-poetry/)

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Coffeehouse Junkie Podcast: An excerpt from Gregory Orr’s essay “Four Temperaments and the Forms of Poetry” will be read on today’s podcast plus an short poem.

“Go to the pine to learn of the pine,” Basho

“A haiku is far more than a concrete image of something ‘out there.’ It is very much about the cognitive awareness ‘in here.’” (via Roadrunner Journal)1

NOTES:
1) William M. Ramsey, “How One Writes in the Haiku Moment: Mythos vs. Logos,” May, 2009, Roadrunner Haiku Journal, Issue IX:2, accessed May 23, 2009, https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/1301

// i woke up from a dream in which coleman barks & i read sufi poetry in translation together…

yes… i my new, cheap coffee press… & other morning accouterments…