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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-02-28

Sunday, February 28, 2010

@elleeffect or, when the pile of laundry seems too high, wear it down. in reply to elleeffect # much to my delight and alternating envy, my buddy @smoonen is reading tolkien's letters. here's a little sample: http://bit.ly/axAlbg # Dain's. They have a drink called the decepticon, which is a martini that tastes like licorice, then [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-02-21

Sunday, February 21, 2010

"Ahi quanto a dir qual era รจ cosa dura / esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte / che nel pensier rinova la paura!" — Dante, Inferno, Canto 1 # http://twitpic.com/138t7y – Got this in the mail today. Coincidence? # I am a worker bee. Behold, i bumble. # whine >> wine >> win # [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-02-14

Sunday, February 14, 2010

spent the day with friends (local & abroad, via technology) and my soul is refreshed. # @schy yes yes yes! in reply to schy # if you were looking for inspiration: http://bit.ly/9mnI8F (and one better, my buddy @schy is part of their prettymaking machine now, too.) # these comics today are excellent. http://bit.ly/9E6tth and http://bit.ly/asZPQI [...]

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Finding Books in the Future (now)

Friday, February 12, 2010

Quickly now, a snippet of cleanhanded searchlores: A method of finding free poetry that doesn’t step on any moral grass medians. This question of morality in fetching information is a stickyslick one, and I haven’t plumbed the full track of its stone wall for uneven spots yet. (If you have thoughts, I would like to [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-02-07

Sunday, February 7, 2010

dear cold weather: return my toes or i will blow hot air into your ear. i require them to balance myself. # @gralinnaea so far, i like it. i’ll give the full verdict after, but it comes highly recommended, so i have hopes. in reply to gralinnaea # when it starts up, the heater in [...]

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In Which A Soldier Describes the Primary Act of War

Friday, February 5, 2010

It’s not the first man. It’s the second and third and fourth and fifth; and they all become that first man. And by the fiftieth, and at close range, they all become the same face. When you kill, you kill the same guy over and over and over again. —Samuel Fuller, quoted in The Typewriter, [...]

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The Age of the Shrug

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Jessica saw the shrug, thought, This is the age of the shrug. [...] Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack. — Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

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On the Subject of Retaining Ideas

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

So this post by Warren Ellis (who is a comics et al writer I enjoy very much, both for his stories and his howling pursuit of the future) about a writer’s equipment started me thinking about my own kit, and what tools I could try. This is a rambling post about minutiae, and will bore [...]

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