Art history

I just read a line in A Trip To The Stars by Nicholas Christopher that just struck me so personally...

"It was amazing to me, when I thought back on it later, that I got my art history, not from slides or photographs in coffee-table books, but from viewing the objects firsthand, close enough to touch".

This feels so true to my experience... not just with paintings, photography and sculpture but also with literature and music and knowing the writers and artists as well. Oh, mom... what a special thing this was.

My favourite line is...

Luba, he would say, I'll help you
take out the hairpins.

"Spilled Milk"
~ Willa Schneberg

As seen on: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2011/10/06

My favourite line is...

drama in those old sunrise
prisms in wet cedar boughs,

deepest mystery
in washing evening dishes

          
The Orchid Flower      
~ Sam Hamill


As seen on: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2011/09/08

Comic Sans

Comic Sans

Someone remind me to change the font to actually be Comic Sans... if I didn't figure it out already....

Why?

Because if you are not squeamish about some cleverly (and admittedly not so cleverly placed f-bombs, s-bombs and other alphabetical-bombs) and have a thing for fonts...

Then you might want to visit this article at McSweeney's.

I just wonder if Times New Roman (sending this via gmail, not even Google likes TNR, not available in their font options) really has true devotees...

And my favourite line is...

Precisely to the degree that you have loved something:
a house, a woman, a bird, this tree, anything at all,
you are punished by time.
 
Like the tree,
I take myself by surprise.
 
At Summer's End
~ John Engels