Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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On spam comments.

I’ve just about had it with the people who leave spam comments around here. Every so often I’ll go into my archives and clean out some of them, but there’s no great way to list all the comments on all the posts at once in Moveable Type, and I’m disinclined to upgrade the installation until […]

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Holy wow.

Today I discovered an amazing person: check out Breathewords – The Twisted Show – portfolio of Adriana de Barros. It’s always cool when you find someone else who does what ou do, and does it so spectacularly. I feel inspired, and the distinct urge to kick up my own stuff about a dozen notches to […]

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Finishing Season Part 4: Green.

As promised, I’m happy to release out into the wild another one of my older stories, a sci-fi thriller called Green. It’s a novella (approx. 20 pages) about two doctors who are on a God-given mission to revolutionize the prosthetics industry. When one of them returns early from a vacation to the Himalayas, his discovery […]

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Or not. (Finishing Season part 3 1/2.)

Have instead decided to fix and update my writing journal. I’ve fixed the archives, repaired the RSS feed, and am now sifting through my recent writings to find things worth posting. I have stuff lying around, like another giant chunk of Bones of the Angel, but there’s a weirdness about uploading these novels-in-progress. The old […]

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Woke up this morning feeling bad.

Not sure why exactly, but I woke up this morning feeling kind of blah. One of those what’s-the-point type mornings, where you wake up with no get-up-and-go whatsoever. I’m sure you’ve had them too. Am currently trying to come up with an antidote. It’s a nice day outside, so perhaps I’ll go out and play […]

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Inspirations: Michel Gondry.

There’s a great article in the New York Times right now on videomaker Michel Gondry, called “Captain Video Prepares for Takeoff“. Gondry is the one responsible for the upcoming movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey (apparently in another antiCarrey role). Gondry does nifty things with yarn and Legos […]

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Finishing Season Part 3: Voiceproblem.org.

Next up in Finishing Season is Voiceproblem.org: The Voice Problem Website, a project I’ve been working on for – no joke – three years. Voiceproblem.org (which is also the enormous project I alluded to earlier) is the brainchild of David Bradley, the founder of The Advisory Board and the owner of The Atlantic Monthly. The […]

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Finishing Season Part 2: CollaborationTown.

As part 2 of Finishing Week Season, I’m proud to unveil the website for CollaborationTown: a Theatre Company. CollaborationTown is a theatre troupe doing neat political satire and commentary theater up in New York City. One of the founding members is my old compadre Jesica Avellone, of whom I’m insanely proud, and happy to help […]

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Finishing Season Part 1: The Yellow and the Orange.

I’ve got a couple things rolling out this weekend, after the long work of Finishing Week. First up: Kimberley Reid Voice Over, another little site for my friends over at Sound Advice. Nothing too complex over here, just a pretty little design. With fruit. More to come! Update: Since getting all these wrapped up feels […]

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Bigha, betta, more!

So I’ve been reading over at Matt Haughey’s blog about his recent trip to the Bigha bike factory. Bighas are those weird-looking bikes that have you seated more upright than the bent-over models. There’s something about those suckers that appeals to me, although I’m not entirely sure what it is. Maybe it’s the high-tech gadgetry […]

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