Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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Tomorrow’s issue is going to rock.

There’s so much cool stuff coming together for the next issue, it’s incredible. Two people whom I’ve wanted to include forever finally have pieces appearing here, one for the first time ever and another for the first time in our online incarnation. So cool. Check back tomorrow around noon EST! (And I’m planning on noon […]

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Something I should remember when feeling burnt out.

Sometimes I stress out about Inkblots. When you’ve been doing something for almost ten years, it becomes all too easy to start worrying about its perpetual economic unfeasibility, or its fluctuations in punctuality, and how you’re ever going to keep its quality on the rise, especially after you’ve had so many wonderful contributors in the […]

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What a glorious feeling.

My friend Bill writes the best classic movie critiques ever. This Friday we’ll be publishing his take on “Singin’ in the Rain,” and he’s done a bang-up job. Stay tuned!

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With a boom boom and a vroom vroom.

This morning has been odd. Last night I stayed up later than I’d intended, due to my picking up my new copy of Flash to the Core by Joshua Davis for a little reading before bedtime. The book is awesome – in much the same way as Jeffrey Zeldman deftly handled introducing web design to […]

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Putting out fires.

Great Caesar’s ghost, I’ve been working all morning and I still haven’t had a single billable hour. What the heck.

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Grumble grumble.

Weeks with holidays suck for the self-employed. Not only do you not really get to take a day off, but there’s no mail on that day, so you lose that little daily sense of Christmas you get waiting for a paycheck.

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Preview of things to come.

One of the things coming up on Friday: a new photocollection from Carrie Spritzer, one of my friends from Kenyon and a spectacular photographer. She’s just posted a collection of downloadable desktop images that are really very beautiful. Go grab one and brighten your monitor up a tad.

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I saw the best minds of my generation.

I’m pleased to announce that Inkblots will be launching its autumn issue this Friday, as a stop on Kevin Smokler’s Virtual Book Tour. And you know what? I’m really stoked about this one. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoyed the last two books, Stiff and Screening Party. But this one, Ethan Watters’ Urban Tribes, is […]

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Relaxation.

So this past weekend was the first weekend in a month where I wasn’t travelling. I’d been working so hard on my portfolio and whatnot last week that I decided to take the weekend off. Novel concept, I know. Fun things I did this weekend: played the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles GameCube game with […]

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New Sarah McLachlan video.

Her new song, “Fallen,” didn’t really do it for me when I heard it on the radio, but the video is really very beautiful. Check it out.

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