i was wandering downtown a few nights ago in search of a jamacan coffee, but the lights were out and looked like old europe has closed shop.
co-worker: what are you eating? your so healthy. that’s not like you to eat something like that. where’s that from?
me: it has jalapenos and monterey jack cheese…
co-worker: oh, i can’t believe it.
Landon Godfrey reading at the Flood Reading Series, Sunday March 29, 2009.
In essence, [blogging/blog platforms are] a straightforward content-management system that posts updates in reverse-chronological order and allows comments and other social interactions.
Viewed as such, blogging may “die” in much the same way that personal-digital assistants (PDAs) have died. A decade ago, PDAs were the preserve of digerati who liked using electronic address books and calendars. Now they are gone, but they are also ubiquitous, as features of almost every mobile phone.
carwichet
noun • /ˈkɑː(r)wɪtʃɪt)/ • A pun; a hoaxing question or conundrum.
Justin Gardiner reads at the Flood Reading Series, Sunday March 29.
Amanda Gardiner reads at the Flood Reading Series, Sunday March 29.
Mark Prudowsky introduces the Flood Reading Series, Sunday March 29, 2009, with a poem.
Effective writing by George Orwell
1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous.
Two things to look for in poetry: “personality and style” (http://ululate.blogspot.com/2009/03/on-freaky-goth-ambiance-horseradish.html)
Small Press Month
now that it is almost over, march is small press month. yeah, me too. didn’t know of any events in my area.
The Magazine Isn’t Dying: It’s just the badly motivated ones that are going under.
fluffynotes: Magazines are emotional products. They are objects of aspiration, passion, and desire. No one needs to read magazines, but millions of readers still subscribe to their favorite titles because they harbor deep connections to the glossy pages. As one veteran editor once explained to me, the best magazines make you feel like tearing open the plastic wrap the second that they arrive in your mailbox and curling up on the couch with them, ignoring whatever plans you had for the evening. Which is why the current downturn can be good for publishers. Magazines still offer an unsurpassed ability to marry literary ambitions with deep reporting, photography, and visual design. In this new media age, people talk about the importance of transforming readers into “communities.” Magazines have never had a community problem. Great magazines have built enduring relationships with their readers that Facebook and Tumblr still aspire to. But in a race to grow their businesses, publishers put advertising first and editorial excellence second. http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/impressions/2009/03/17/magazine-isnt-dying?page=0,0
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
Elie Wiesel. (via monkeytypist)
this is a must read for anyone who writes or publishes or designs print publications.
stacey’s the year of the garden post and edatrix’s garden post inspired me to share this garden photo.
i spent the first day of spring breaking ground on a backyard garden.
yes, two garden patches with an oak tree in the center.
Coffeehouse Junkie 