This is why the potential is always there for me to get nothing done. Here are some of the top links that caught my eye from today’s Arts & Letters Daily and Marginal Revolution sites. I could have spent a happy hour reading all of them, but I decided to confine them to my Readability …
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Sad necessities and the comfort zone
For many years, I’ve taken shameful (or shameless) advantage of Top Shelf’s annual $3 web sale of comics and graphic novels from their catalog. Not everything is $3, of course — but a large number of selected items from their catalog are remarkably discounted, with some inventory they’ve never been able to shift cut down to …
Map of Rain Hitting Water by Mara Gibson Treat your ears right. Listen to this hypnotic piece from composer Mara Gibson.
Mara Gibson: Map of Rain Hitting Water
In the late ’90s, I decided I wanted to take piano lessons. By chance, a flyer at the Regulator Bookshop let me know about Mara Gibson, a Duke PhD student in composing, who taught piano on the side. I worked with her, I think, for about 2 years before she left Durham to finish her …
[O Fortune, changing and unstable, your tribunal and judges are also unstable. You prepare huge gifts for him who you would tickle with favors as he arrives at the top of your wheel. But your gifts are unsure, and finally everything is reversed: you raise up a poor man from his filth and the insufferable …
Progress Report: Content and Themes
Without the topic of school to provide a throughline or readymade theme for the blog – which was the reason for its birth, after all – the content of my posts has scattered itself across self-help, tech, and cultural themes, though there has been silliness too. Mustn’t forget silliness.
Progress Report: Routines
I started out writing my blog posts every morning for about 15-30 minutes, but now I may write throughout the day or write three on a Sunday night or tinker with a post or posts throughout the week.
gulliver-arkham: Sweeney Todd on Flickr.
ilovecharts: The Secret Law of Page Harmony Source: ffffound.com
Mallarme: “My dear Degas, poems are not made out of ideas. They’re made out of words.” The Unwrinkled Word Source: ualr.edu
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