Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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Actually, that’s a good point.

At the end of this article about a 12-year-old girl on the RIAA’s hit list, the mother swears to get a good lawyer. Seems like a good idea to me — the RIAA is threatening to level thousands of lawsuits against people for this. Hey, Mike and other laywers — what’s the best way to […]

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A good evening for media.

While I’ve been puttering about with different projects tonight, I’ve been watching two of my favorite movies from the last little while: Amelie and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Mood movies. Mmmm.

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In Writing: Small States.

I’ve just posted another story to my Writing Journal, over at geoffreylong.com/writing. It’s a PDF this time around, 25 pages and formatted for printing. It’s a love story told in two media, about an old man, a boy, a girl, and Edward Hopper. Submitted for your perusal: Small States. I hope you enjoy it.

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Two years later, the stories keep coming.

There’s a very interesting little event going down over in the comments pages for {fray} hope – missing pieces. Apparently a high school teacher in New York is using {fray} as a part of his lesson plan today, which has resulted in fifty-two feedback posts from students already. They’re really touching, funny and sad – […]

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Rest in peace, Mr. Zevon.

From The New York Times: Warren Zevon, Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 56. The way he spent his last couple of months was downright inspiring. I hope I go with half as much of a flourish.

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Dental progress.

Well, I finally went to go see the oral surgeon. He walked in, took one look at my x-rays, and said, “Yep, it’s a no-brainer. All four have gotta come out.” Yeah, I was half expecting that. To be honest, I’ve been weirdly giddy all afternoon. At the consultation this morning, I received two prescriptions, […]

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This weekend I walked among my people.

Believe it or not, this is not a callback to the “King of the Dorks” post. This weekend was the Small Press Expo here in Bethesda. Oh my word. The amount of truly amazing works on display was incredible! I also went and blew way too much money, which I justified to myself by knowing […]

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It’s official.

This evening I was officially crowned King of the Dorks. All hail your king, you dorks.

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Rivendell, meet Isengard.

With great power comes great… Storage requirements. Gandalf, my PowerBook G4/667 has a measly 30GB drive in it. Back in the day, that would have been fine – but now, what with all the massive storage needed for digital video, music and the like, a guy needs more. So, last year I bought a 120GB […]

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Getting pissed at Apple.

There are so many reasons I love Apple, and then there are a bunch of reasons that I really, really hate ’em sometimes. Like right now. All I’m trying to do is build a system where I can make music, make movies, make websites, etc. – all things that Apple happily boasts their machines are […]

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