Blogs are nice sometimes

Image via Art Review.

and how did all those books start? in the kitchen of the murray house, and then somehow charles wallace and meg always goes for a walk to the star-watching rock. thats how they start. one foot in front of the other. and you know, like 3 immortal beings and a unicorn or a seraphim thrown in there. (and someone in the murray family is always making someone else hot cocoa. swear to god). they become about love and time travel and getting back to something like trust and grace with things that are familiar, and so readily problematic to the larger society. like dirty gay bathroom sex, for example. that the relativity of connection has no underlying foundation, there's no ethics to breathing so why can't that be so for love.

Plimpton Prize and latex leggings

Factory photo via Bouncing Red Ball.

Peter Matthiesson loves you, Alistair Morgan.

It's cute that you can write a whole article about letter-writing making a comeback without any evidence to support it. (via The Elegant Variation)

In old news, everyone seems mystified by The Way We'll All Make Billions On the Internet.

MIA might be an apologist for the Tamil Tigers, but she is indubitably pregnant.

Two great links from BoingBoing: photographs of factories in Japan, and of a broken-down hospital in Maryland.

Oh! And one more! I've been meaning to post recipes for making your own toothpaste, laundry detergent, etc., but BoingBoing links to How To Make Your Own Latex Leggings, which seem to be a New York essential these days. You're welcome.

Inauguration art

Nothing like Maira Kalman to make you feel happier about the state of the union. And red-eyebrowed museum guards and plastic flowers in the Walt Whitman rest stop. (Thanks, Katie.)

Ambient Intimacy

A nice post by Leisa Reichelt about ambient intimacy, her term for those people you know on the internet more than anywhere else.

You can almost hear it

I've been spending a lot of time at IT IN place. This is a piece I found in Alex's archives. Check out his blog here.

To all who said blogging wasn't profitable

Check out Ana Marie Cox right now. Geez. Even Alex Balk is jealous.

Wednesday Entry abridged

I have finished my first notebook. Filled. In three days at this course.

It is getting late, so here is what I want to share from today:


Please download this program. You absolutely will not regret it. Bob Stein, director of the Institute for the Future of the Book (otherwise known as if:book, a fantastic blog) shared it today in his lecture. It's better than Pagemaker, Powerpoint, or any other media-blending tool out there. The MacArthur Foundation backs this - you should, too.

It's currently known as "Sophie."

Also, when blogs like Alex Itin's enter my life, I remember why I stay up all night scrambling to read the entirety of the internet.