falling down

Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:12:51 +1100

Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs - Boing Boing

Dinosaur Comics - November 6th, 2009

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:06:44 +1100

Dinosaur Comics - November 6th, 2009:

Along the same lines, Dinosaur Comics has a reader-submitted roundup of out-of-genre cover songs. Or, as he puts it, ‘hooray for music that sounds like other music’.

All Folked Up: The Punk Rock Collection, Vol. 1 (folk covers of seminal first and second wave punk music) — Cover Lay Down

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:42:08 +1100

All Folked Up: The Punk Rock Collection, Vol. 1 (folk covers of seminal first and second wave punk music) — Cover Lay Down

on the hunting down of ideas - WWdN: In Exile

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:16:45 +1100

on the hunting down of ideas - WWdN: In Exile

Canabalt

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:28:59 +1100

Canabalt:

‘Press X or C to start your daring escape.’

Will Arnett, aka GOB Bluth, aka Max the Magician guest stars on...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:09:09 +1100

Will Arnett, aka GOB Bluth, aka Max the Magician guest stars on Sesame Street, via mental_floss

"The American writer Maurice Sendak, already one of my heroes, has climbed even higher in my..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:22:06 +1100

“The American writer Maurice Sendak, already one of my heroes, has climbed even higher in my estimation. Asked what he would say to parents of young children who were concerned that the imminent film of his Where the Wild Things Are might be too scary, he said: “I would tell them to go to hell.” For their children, he had the following message: “If they can’t handle it, go home. Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like.””

- If children’s stories aren’t scary, they’re failing their audience | Sam Leith | Books | The Guardian

Urban Mushrooms (via GamOvr)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:04:19 +1100

Urban Mushrooms (via GamOvr)

How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:59:52 +1100

How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal

re: Write Fight

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:49:50 +1100

Well, how I get things done anyway.

PvPonline » Archive » Write Fight This is generally...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:09:37 +1100

PvPonline » Archive » Write Fight

This is generally how Guan and I get things done (and the spirit in which this blog was founded in the first place).

bathtub from heaven | Bloomacious Digs

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:31:00 +1100

bathtub from heaven | Bloomacious Digs

The Art of Prose Fiction

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:37:28 +1100

I think I need to read and reread this series from On Fiction (I, II, III) on the mechanics of style, and how to annotate the interior life of a character, then talk about it with someone.

Bits like how Flaubert aspired to a ‘style that would enter your mind like a rapier thrust, and on which finally your thoughts would slide as if over a smooth surface …’, and to seek the original the described thing: ‘with a single word show me how one cab horse is different from the fifty others ahead or behind it.’

And then how Woolf wanted to depict not the external, but the interior life, except they hadn’t worked out ‘the tools’ yet.

Posted partly to increase the possibility that people would talk to me about it.

Ramona Falls - I Say Fever. Song and clip are both much amazing.

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:00:15 +1100

Ramona Falls - I Say Fever. Song and clip are both much amazing.

On Footnotes in Fiction

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:00:25 +1100

On Footnotes in Fiction:

I unbiasedly love footnotes: I think they further capture a something of the exploratory inquisitiveness that fiction is all about anyway.

Pitch perfect pieces of skewered reality by Glenn Jones

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:33:30 +1100

Pitch perfect pieces of skewered reality by Glenn Jones

The Welcome Wagon - Reverend Thomas Vito Aiuto plays...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:26:55 +1100

The Welcome Wagon - Reverend Thomas Vito Aiuto plays ‘Deep Were His Wounds’

I keep coming back to this Sufjan-produced album. The interview’s great too, I love thathe comes across as a genuine, humble dude: ‘It just started as a way for Monique and I to sing to each other, sing to God.’

Okay you may be wondering why I have posted an ad for UK car...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:11:01 +1100

Okay you may be wondering why I have posted an ad for UK car insurance. It’s mainly because I love how they’ve animated this little dude (especially how he sings along to his own jingle). And also it’s Jennie’s fault for sending it to me in the first place.

Meerkats ahoy!

The Trouble With Flying

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:58:42 +1100

The Trouble With Flying:

Beautiful, exploratory band site. Perfect for getting lost in. (Background music playing.)

Like Ghibli Barfing Rainbows: the Art and Motion of Capybara's Critter Crunch - Boing Boing

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:37:42 +1100

Like Ghibli Barfing Rainbows: the Art and Motion of Capybara's Critter Crunch - Boing Boing