Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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This makes me angry.

So you say you watched Bush’s heartwarming speech last night? So you say you’ve been moved to new heights of patriotism? Just read this.

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Progress report, part 3.

OK, well, that’s not quite true. (And if you haven’t read my previous entry yet, then please do so to figure out what I’m talking about.) When I left off, I was saying that I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do to expand my skills and, by extension, my portfolio. That’s not true. Here […]

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Progress report, part 2.

I should be working. And that’s the problem. I’m sitting here in the Evanston Public Library, where I’ve been working for the last couple of hours on various client projects. This is pretty much my status quo: wake up, check the email, check the news sites, get showered, and either pull up to my desk […]

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Progress report.

Still not king.

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Lock and load and rock and roll.

This is my favorite feeling in the world. I just had a client unchain me – not fire me, but say “Look, go to town on this. Knock yourself out. Do what you would if this were one of your personal projects.” Mwa. Ha. Ha.

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This is amazing.

Cribbed from Warren Ellis, apparently the bodies of three WWI soldiers have been found preserved inside of a glacier. I’m not sure what’s more creatively intriguing, that image or this passage that occurs late in the article: Among the relics left in Italy by World War One Austrian troops was a series of tunnels buried […]

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Super-hyper-bouncy-bouncy.

There’s a scene in Zach Braff’s Garden State where Natalie Portman looks at Zach and says, “You’re in it right now, aren’t you? That’s what my mom always says when she looks at me and sees I’m trying to work something out in my head. You’re in it.” I’ve been in it all morning. This […]

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Say it with me now! Bang bang hammer hammer!

Ah, the neverending refrain of my life: bang bang hammer hammer. If my life had a soundtrack, it would be an infinite symphony of metaphorical power drills and electric saws. A quick note: Adam Greenfield has once again made my linked-list with a very insightful piece on the psychology of a redesign and the state-of-the-art […]

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New high score!

OK, well, “high score” might be a weird term for it, but I just finished typing in almost all of the stuff I’ve been writing lately. My current page count as of this moment is 129, with a word count of just over 33,000. In the last two weeks I’ve written almost 7,000 words and […]

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Well, isn’t this weird.

A brief observation here. It’s no secret that my favorite writers on the planet are Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Carroll. I wear my influences proudly not just on my sleeve, but tattooed across my forehead. I also like Stephen King, Nick Bantock and Dave McKean. (And, here, I want to throw a quick Bad Dave, […]

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