Month: May 2009

  • A little whimsy

    • Though it’s completely irrelevant to anything I do, I thought the rules for comic book grammar and talk-bubble design were fascinating. (Via screenwriter John August.) • I don’t remember quite how or where I found this, but I had to laugh at the Unspoken Rules of Graphic Design. Anyone in a related field would…

  • Excess analysis

    i’ve been thinking a lot about internal conflict. about how to have less of it, and how to manage the excess analysis we tend to perform on each other’s hearts. i feel like i’m going through this intense turning point, a magnification of the self. both physically and emotionally. i’m not sure if that makes…

  • Hiiiii, Dooce fans/foes!

    Hello to everyone who is coming here from Dooce’s hit post about her bathroom makeover/catastrophe! For the record, I adore Heather, but I think the tile looks like poo. And I think someday she’ll come to that realization as well. For now, she and Jon are too busy being defensive. That’s okay, I do it…

  • Your beauty is strange, and I was proud to discover it

    I wanted you so badly my stomach hurt: your pale face framed in wild tangles of near-black hair, your small and crooked teeth, your collarbone a quick sketch of wings. Forgive me for saying this, but your beauty is strange, and I was proud to discover it, proud of my eye, like a record-store clerk…

  • Marathon

    This past weekend, Andy’s family came in for the Flying Pig Marathon. His dad ran the full marathon while his cousin, cousin’s boyfriend, and cousin’s boyfriend’s sister ran the half. I was merely a devoted spectator, but I spent all weekend carbo-loading in support of my runners. On the day of the race, we woke…