March 2011
2 posts
Two events that have to do with water.
Spring can’t get here fast enough for me. I have spent the last month cursing the cold weather and dreaming of a time when ice cream will be palatable and hot tea will seem like the worst idea ever.
In the meantime, I thought I would update you on the happenings of 2011 so far.
Over New Years, Henry and I when home to Kentucky for the baptism of my niece, Mattelyn. Matthew and I were...
November 2010
2 posts
Cancer hates Nachos →
OK Go – Last Leaf →
It took 2,430 pieces of toast to make this video and the animation is amazing. I don’t know how they keep coming up with this stuff, but it gives me hope.
September 2010
2 posts
Pfc. Gibson Comes Home →
A must-read Pulitzer Prize-winning piece from 1968 about a soldier who died in Vietnam and how his body was received in his small town back home. It was assigned reading in my feature writing class in college. Thanks to Tommy Tomlinson at The Charlotte Observer for sharing the link with me and thanks to the people who took the time to put in online.
The Wilderness Downtown →
coketalk:
Arcade Fire and Chris Milk have created the most powerful interactive experience I’ve ever seen. Go to this site. Right now.
Enter the address of your childhood home.
Wait for it… wait for it.
July 2010
3 posts
Our Footloose Remake
Like many of us, some guys were pissed that Hollywood was going to do another in a long line of remakes. This time, they were going to ruin Footloose, the classic tale of a big town boy who loves to dance whose mother forces him to move to a backwater hole-in-the-wall where dancing is outlawed.
So, these guys formed a collection of amateur filmmakers and video-making enthusiasts, who have beat...
June 2010
2 posts
No.
I will never buy anything from a company who uses the sound of an alarm clock in their advertisements. It’s just not right. Or a police siren. I will never buy anything from a company that uses the sound of an alarm clock or police siren in their advertisements. Never.
May 2010
1 post
Lost
Eternal Damnation (i.e. Hell):
When one has lost or misplaced a necessary item or items at an inopportune moment.
April 2010
2 posts
A clean, well-lighted place
“It was all nothing, and a man was nothing, too…Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it was nada y pues nada y pues nada.”
From Ernest Hemingway’s short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Here’s a link to the short story online if you haven’t read it:
http://www.mrbauld.com/hemclean.html
March 2010
1 post
Home
Lately, I find the soft lilt of a Southern accent drawing me into programs on television I wouldn’t typically find interesting. I’ve been searching intently for songs with even a hint of the twang and personality of Kentucky or even North Carolina. And, I have engaged in daydream reminiscences in which I am surrounded by mountains and trees and the sweet smell of springtime honeysuckle...