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Friday, August 6, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
hysterical visual diary of an international flight
came across this by Christoph Niemann in the NYT. I love his work--and this is pure genius. The visual diary of his flight from NY to Berlin via London. familiar? I love the fat foot syndrome. (Well. Not in real life.)
more here
more here
I'll be encountering all this next week as I fly to the UK for the annual trip to Cornwall with my whole family (wetsuits, body boarding, sand castles, cornish pasties, sleet, snow, sun--we have it all)
(BTW: I may have a bit of a hiatus in the blog for a couple of weeks.)
(BTW: I may have a bit of a hiatus in the blog for a couple of weeks.)
Monday, July 26, 2010
what's in your garage?
How cool is this? Ginormous stickers you stick on your garage...
(i just need to get a garage)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
writing for a living--or for life? BIG difference
"There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises....
If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,
not what pays."
-- Toni Morrison
Monday, July 19, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Jericho by Jesper
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Jesper Leggatt (8), a boy in my sister's class in London, loves the JSB. And he drew this fantastic picture inspired by Jago's illustration in the JSB.
Isn't it good?
The Blind Contessa's New Machine
my friend Carey Wallace has her first novel out THE BLIND CONTESSA'S NEW MACHINE and it's getting great reviews. Today the Times listed it in newly released books (one of only 5!):
THE BLIND CONTESSA’S NEW MACHINEBy Carey Wallace207 pages. Pamela Dorman Books/Viking. $23.95.
The Contessa Carolina Fantoni is a 19th-century Italian beauty and a loner who spends her youth in blissfully unattended reverie at a lakeside cottage on her family’s property. Carolina’s childhood friend and neighbor, the eccentric inventor Pellegrino Turri, is older by a decade, but the two are bound by their curiosity and quirks. Shortly after becoming engaged to the town’s most eligible bachelor, Carolina realizes that her eyesight is slowly slipping away. But nobody believes her except for Turri. As the real word fades, Carolina begins to see in her dreams. And when her marriage goes the way of her vision, Carolina and Turri’s long-dormant passion blossoms into something potent enough to inspire the invention of... the typewriter. If the story sounds familiar, that’s because Carey Wallace based her debut novel — it feels more like a fairy tale, really — on a true story.
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