December, 2005
Dec 242005
Vigorous Typing
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 Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata does […]
Dec 132005
New Things
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 store, and the […]
Dec 42005
Warm Reception
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 yesterday because I was too […]
