toonlet talk

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So-called Bill and I have recently started posting about digital creativity over at digitalmedia under The Creative Beat. This subsite is an extension (an outgrowth? a spur?) of the interviews you’ve found over over here, with a little more focus on things-tech. Last week, SCB had a fun post on Eno’s Oblique Strategies and where … Read more

In Defense of Sarah Palin

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People say that Sarah Palin was the mayor of a 9,000-person Alaskan town until just a few years ago, and that’s true. But they’re forgetting that Alaskans are like 40 feet tall and covered with hair and they have 20 arms and so really, that’s the equivalent of, um, 171,000 normal people. And people say … Read more

The six stages of music over-play

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1. First few listens: My heart starts to race. This sounds nice. This sounds really nice…. Passes through quickly to… 2. Deep dive: Can last one month or four. This sound is all my brain wants to receive. Can I play it again? Again? Again? Again. Again. Joy. 3. Sudden burn out: Recoiling. I will … Read more

“He jackassed my head!”

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…is the phase I shouted at Ben Kingsley in my last dream last night. Is the phrase I was shouting in my brain when the alarm woke me up this morning. You don’t understand, Ben Kingsley. I didn’t even know that jerk. I was lying on the grass, OK?. He ran by, playing soccer, and … Read more

sugar cube heartbreak

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I had two foods from my childhood tonight and the sugar cube was a complete let down. All promise, stacked high in that crystalline stack and then collapsed like a wet meringue. Blech. A mouth full of undifferentiated former-cube fragments, trying to escape each other and nowhere good to go.

Dog parts

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Trying to find a place that’s not shaded. Damn trees everywhere. I just need one spot where my skin can make contact with the sun. Light is part of the sun, did you know that? It’s not an offshoot or something sparkly the sun shakes loose like water from a dog. It’s more like actual … Read more