CARIBOU vs. STARBUCKS

edatrix:

discuss.

Um, that’s like THE BEATLES vs. THE ROLLING STONES. Both seem ubiquitous and overhyped/over-priced.

My flavorite coffee den is Firestorm Cafe (but it’s not open in the mornings… and there’s no Caribou coffee in the area… … there’s Izzy’s, but it’s not on the bus route to the office and if I hiked over there for me daily brew I’d late for work… The Drip in actually on the bus route to the office, but if i stopped for coffee i’d have to wait 30 minutes for the next bus which would make me late to work… and there’s City Bakery, but that presents the same dilemma as The Drip… leaving me with Starbucks and the bad taste in my mouth that Asheville’s public transit is not as good as it could be.). So, ugh (I can’t believe it!)… I concede… Starbucks (at least for me morning dose of caffeine).

// somedays i fantasize that i’m a reviewer for the new york review of books… all day long i read engaging books and write elaborate book reviews… and then i wake up and realize most people don’t read engaging books… nor literary criticism… i’m such an anachronism.

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Top 20 New Year’s Wishes for Digital Media

“Here’s a shocker: The one-night stand may be being replaced by long-term monogamous relationships when it comes to sex at academic conferences.” » read more

‘Tricks of the Trade’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy6Omz1bDPg

Just because I can’t get enough of Jackson Pollock or Ed Harris.

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

Paperback Dreams: docu-film

A lot of good links, but it might cause you to use your old bean to read and digest the discussion.

Poetry and Relevance

Blogs survive as scavengers

News-gathering is expensive. (Read previous posts on this theme here (The (read) sky (between) is (the) falling (lines)) and here (Pornographers don’t sell pornography).) That’s why I present this from Simon Dumenco for AdAge.com:
“unlike Salon, which… pays for its content, HuffPo [HuffingtonPost] has an ethically questionable content-generation scheme: It doesn’t pay most of its bloggers at all. Worse, it sometimes even lifts content wholesale from other sites that do pay for their own content…” (http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=133541)

‘Please know I love especially you, how every morning you turn over/ the languorous earth,…’

browsing through a copy of The American Poetry Review and Poetry (both arrived yesterday) while drinking a big cup coffee.

just finished watching a couple episodes of Marty Stouffer’s Wild America with the kidlingers

In the company of…

It is amusing to find lists of books that include a title (or titles) that I helped bring to the reading audience. This book list (http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1852804) includes titles by C.S. Lewis, Ayn Rand, Chaim Potok and one of the books I published in the last few years. The company a book keeps on an individual reader’s bookshelf is very educational.

Book blogs are the enemy of reading. I discovered several such fascinating blogs this year and spent hours enamored of reading, listing the books I wanted to read, and reading others’ lists. Imagine my surprise when I realized that I had frittered away precious reading time staring at a computer screen. Apparently I was getting all the warm, fuzzy, readerly feelings without the commitment of turning pages. Sad.

brilynne

// listening to the wind pull the barn door off its hinges.

Mac 101: Photo Booth Tips

Here is a great book to bring in the new year. It’s a by De Designpolitie and consists of essays, success stories, failed projects, fascinations and experiments. For more info…

Visual Read: The ABC of De Designpolitie

So says an online current affairs and culture magazine funded by who? Oh, that’s right. A traditional print publication – Washington Post Company! Like I’ve said before, traditional news gathering organizations still provide the best content. Though, I believe that trend is changing. Still, Slate (online news media) is owned by Washington Post (traditional print media).

What’s killing newspapers is the same thing that killed the slide rule.

Good grief! If newspapers stop printing, what will I use to wrap all the Christmas gifts?

The writing’s on the wall for the old-style American newspaper

I was hoping for an invitation to read an inaugural poem. Here’s a haiku I prepared in case McCain won the election:“How’d you like your moosesteak, McPalin?” “Rare, with aside of off-shore oil.”

Obama chooses ‘the perfect inaugural poet’

Lunch is to publishing as liquidity is to banking

From Robert McCrum:

The book world is in full-blown transition. Blogs are rampant; Google is digitising every text going; e-readers are transforming the experience of reading. Books (and book reviewing) have been pushed to the margin. It doesn’t help that in a global recession publishing is also feeling the pinch.

Lunch is to publishing as liquidity is to banking.

Link

We work, we play, we marry, we grow old, we dust ourselves off and keep going, all in a quiet hopelessness, neither loving much nor expecting to be loved much. We hang drapes in our pit and hunker down. All is weariness; what has been will be. And then Christmas comes.

Andrée Seu

Link

Goof off at work, read a book, ignore e-mail

“Here are some surprising work habits that might seem to contradict conventional wisdom, but have helped these workers achieve their goals.”

Long Tail Content – a haiku

Hulu November

viewing down, YouTube viewing

up — do you hulu?

scumblr: lickystickypicky: I am in love with pictures….they transmit us to places never seen before.

This should be Tumblr’s mantra.