This Odd Year: A Third Through
So the first four months of my yearlong amorphous adventure have passed and I thought I’d explore what I did with myself, what I’d planned to do with myself, what I’m doing now and what I might do next. If you’re unfamiliar with all this, I’ll sum up: I quit my job at the end of last year, sold a business, and essentially set myself up to take a year to do with what I please, with an eye on ending the year in some sort of position to make a living doing work I love, without compromise, that’s creatively satisfying. I thought I’d take January and...
Read MoreMaking Mischief of One Kind and Another
Image via Wikipedia I had two favourite books when I was a young child. One became the seed of my desperate need to see absurdity in every day life (The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, by Dr. Seuss), and the other led me to befriend monsters and explore my imagination without bounds, knowing that the safety of home would always be there when I was ready to come back to it (Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak). For years of my early childhood, my father read me the latter at bedtime, roaring his terrible roars and gnashing his terrible teeth, rolling his terrible eyes and showing...
Read MoreWhat’s a Viral Marketing Win?
ETA (11 Feb): The firm that did the marketing for Coraline blogged about their strategy. Image via Wikipedia I’m jacked up sideways about going to see the Coraline movie this weekend. I haven’t even read the book. I rarely see a movie when I want to read the book, but I’m going this weekend come hell or high water (or, since this is Vancouver, come four inches of snow that paralyzes the city). For weeks and weeks I’ve seen videos and articles about all the insane handcrafting that went into making this stop-motion animated film. The Coraline folks outdid...
Read More12th October Weekly Roundup
I spent several hours yesterday trying to find a WordPress plugin that will automatically generate a daily digest of stuff I post on Tumblr. It might be that Tumblr is too new. Dunno. Anyway, I found one plugin that will auto-generate a daily digest, but the lines in the digest didn’t actually link to the Tumblr posts, so. Yeah, that was a waste of time. Anyhoo. I find myself writing “anyhoo” lately. Maybe it’s time for that one to come back. I did keep a plugin that generates a lifestream. I hate that term. A “lifestream” is a page that aggregates...
Read More3rd August Weekly Roundup
I do have some ideas brewing for proper blog writing. But for now, another roundup is where it’s at. My parents are here for their annual visit and we’re having a blast. A chill time, which is just lovely. It looks like a summer of Shakespeare is in full swing. We saw the Bard on the Beach production of Twelfth Night on Friday, and laughed so hard it hurt. It’s the funniest production I’ve seen, and was clever to boot. Physical comedy through the filter of 1920s cinema, on the stage. On… a parallel spectrum (can you have one of those? Discuss*), we also saw...
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