Painfully Obvious.

From The Elements of Typographic Style, my new favorite reference volume: Most writing and typography … remain contentedly abstract, like a theater script or a musical score. The script of Macbeth does not need to be bloodstained and spattered with tears; it needs to be legible. And the score of…

I had a whole entry typed up before I left for Thanksgiving. I swear I did. I know not where it went. To prove how much of a dork I am, I wandered around The Container Store last week for about thirty minutes. It was my first time inside said…

Writing from my new apartment, now that my seemingly interminable flood of stuff‐to‐do has slowed to a trickle. Cable and internet are hooked up, everything is more or less where I want it, and I cooked my first meals in the new place today — I’d put off grocery‐shopping until…