…I think the most impressive part of this seminar was the way every week’s readings could’ve gone in a thousand different directions, precisely because we all offered lots of unique knowledge to shade them, point them up or down, and … Continue reading
While the first year Comp. PhDs [5 total] were at C’s, we stayed with some friends of mine, a couple–Matt & Amy. Amy is a nurse, kind, yet outspoken. Matt is a high school English teacher, appreciates good beer, and … Continue reading
It was about two weeks ago when Melissa and I were walking home from school when, lugging bags over our shoulder up Forbes toward SqHill, she suggested that I turn my current utterance into my file project. My utterance was … Continue reading
(0) Above is Plato’s Phaedrus in under 500 words. On MS Word’s account. (1) I’ve been reading a metric tonne of Plato lately. (2) I remember clicking a button in Microsoft Word once that shrunk my friend’s poem into a … Continue reading
This is belated, but here’s a guy who’s turning his facial hair into his own font: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/23/man-turned-beard-alphabet-alphabeard
So, in anticipating all the very interesting marginalia next week, I thought I’d share a site that I’m rather in love with. http://readingmarksonreading.tumblr.com/ If you’re not familiar with him, David Markson (died at 82 in summer of 2010) was a … Continue reading
So I spent an unproductive amount of time on Fontstruct and was completely pissed off because, while it’s user-friendly to some extent, I was totally unprepared and overwhelmed by the whole thing. To think that Eric Gill probably spent years … Continue reading
[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
Besides a recent bother I had knocking around about whether binary code is rhetorical or not, I’ve also been thinking about divination, natural religion, and how to read the world. Or, thought another way: how the world communicates (in a … Continue reading
For this signment I kept thinking what the hardest thing to corral would’ve been. Blood? Large masses of bodies? Insects? The first is too messy. The second too surly. The third too unruly and creepycrawly. I remembered that the point … Continue reading