Tetti Veneziani, di Daniele Scarpa … the illustrations alone make me wish i knew italian … via giornale nuovo

i don’t know much about zen … everything is zen this & that these days … but this is bright & clean & does what i think i need it to do …

State Fair by Alison Beck … an essay and a photo essay … via plep …
can one view a black and white photo of a person surrounded by emblems of his/her place of the moment, gazing patiently into the lens, and not think of diane arbus … and wonder what to think about [...]

been reading a bit of dickens … i’ve never paid him much attention … so here’s Hard Times … which i’ve “read” once or twice before … think i even “taught” it back in houston … what a surprise … 1854 … reacting to industrial crimes against nature …
A sunny midsummer day. There was [...]

much as i like quentin, i think i’ll stick with the tryouts for a little longer …
well they call this “classic” so it must be old & tired … but it looks pretty good to me … sidebar’s in the right place … i can edit from posts … no color to speak of [...]

even macs have History … mental flotilla stretching back back back

& forty years ago today … The Bob Dylan Motorcycle-Crash Mystery …
at the time i knew next to nothing about dylan … though i had heard rainy day women #12 & 35 … maybe a few others … but no memory of like a rolling stone … just unconscious in joliet

just noticed that Paula’s House of Toast has updated my link … wordpress makes it easy to notice this stuff … thanks, paula!! …
if you click that link to visit Paula’s House of Toast be sure to stop and read and look … paula is one of the finest up-close nature photographer’s on the [...]

one wonders how this works … and if it works … let’s see

well here’s this next possibility … kind of bold … bookish & 19th century theatrical … let’s see how long i can live with it …
that last one … almost spring … was kind of cloying in it’s little greeny/orangey bits …
here on quentin i’m liking the clarity of the font … even when i [...]

Incendiary Granny … born in 1920 and blogging up a blizzard (hint … hint…) … found via The Ageless Project
some major cute kitten action (some cute puppies too) …

seems i’m not the only amazed one when it comes to finding a really cheap (7.50) 2-disk edition of sergio leone’s once upon a time in the west … see Dan Schnieder’s review …
radical close-ups … magisterial fordian landscapes … the morricone score … that cast … & a very insightful (for me) commentary track [...]

WORDPLAY/ Screenwriting Secrets from Working Screenwriters … looks content-rich … probably useful for one who wants … to write for the movies? … to write movies?
anyway … this is by Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott … who’ve worked - together & apart - on shrek, pirates of the caribbean (black pearl) … so they [...]

the previous design template was called Gespaa …

i like the big blue post headings … it seems clear & compact enough to me … but the dark blue maybe induces some claustrophobia? feels like a cave … i don’t like how all the categories get listed right up top … or how there’s [...]

…. forgot the name of this durable insect …
… in his second car turning into verbs …
… making frozen golden rules and stumbling …
… then another and so on into painters …