But I could not resist posting this: http://laughingsquid.com/artist-creates-creepy-typeface-with-human-skin-hair-and-eyes/  

[NB: There will be no picture this time because I can’t decide on anything.] So this would seem a perfect topic for me to expound upon, and yet I’m paralyzed. Mostly because the kinds of things that we are to … Continue reading →

What value can be derived from a ripped-up wrapper of an individually packaged tea bag? As with David Levy’s document in “Meditation on a Receipt,” packaging — the small wrapper, especially — is “abundant and ordinary,” and (from what I understand about … Continue reading →

For homework, I asked my students to submit three prompts derived from poems in Natalie Diaz’s When My Brother Was an Aztec. This is one of them. 6. If Eve Side-Stealer & Mary Busted Chest Ruled the World Write a … Continue reading →

I am looking at the printing involved on a prescription pill bottle.  The markings are black and printed on a white and light blue background.  The surface is sticky paper, which is wrapped around the bottle.  The surface is smooth … Continue reading →

I found this at my family home during my last visit, inside a communal desk crammed full of pens, pencils and old notebooks, for the taking.  My stepdad was a firefighter in the forest service 40some years ago, but he … Continue reading →

This is a postcard, bought rather informally at the Bread and Puppet Museum in Glover, Vermont, last summer. The Bread and Puppet Theater started in the ‘60’s in New York, but I associate it (as do most) with the unfussy … Continue reading →

At first glance, this appears to be a picture about my cat: However, this is actually a picture about the paper documents my cat has decided to make his seat. I fanned this papers out on my dining room table … Continue reading →

“[I]f publishers don’t seem to fit into the other-than-codex world of job printing, neither exactly do readers. Who ever really reads receipts, bills, tickets, bonds, or certificates? …Notably, whatever reading is entailed by genres like bills of lading and stock … Continue reading →

As I was reading Jessica Isaac’s piece about adolescent editors and “editresses,” I found myself experiencing some very weird déjà vu. And then I realized what I was thinking of. This is a map from Carpatho-Russian Echoes, an independent paper that … Continue reading →