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Art Books

The Art of Book, Volume One

A month or two ago, Steve at LanguageHat pointed out a New York show consisting of Art Deco book bindings by Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler. I was mesmerized at the beauty of the bindings, and the concept that book binding could actually be considered an art form. I’m not an arts and crafts type of person. I don’t […]

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Just Shelley

File under timing

A legacy from the walk through the weeds was several tick and insect bites, and what looks like plant allergic reactions. Let me hear you folks: Way to go Shelley! We knew you couldn’t go one year without being invited to lunch! Ah well. Best get the ritual over and done with and now that […]

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Writing

Grammar God

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today it got close to 80 degrees (it’s still 70, at 9pm at night), and this is only the beginning of April. So many plants blooming that the air is perpetually perfumed. I took the grammar test. I hate to break it to the neighborhood but… You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission […]

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Writing

Apps behaving badly

I have had a strong writer’s block this last month, which has manifested itself as writing to the weblog. As contrary as this seems, what this means is that instead of focusing on the writing I need to do to make a living, I’ve been puttering around here. Unless ya’ll decide to chip in and […]

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Writing

Unbelievable

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today it got close to 80 degrees (it’s still 70, at 9pm at night), and this is only the beginning of April. So many plants blooming that the air is perpetually perfumed. I took the grammar test. I hate to break it to the neighborhood but… You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission […]