Monthly Archives: December 2008

Losing my religion, moving to Texas?

I’ve always liked the idea of moving to Texas as metaphor for disappearing entirely. It’s totally unrelated to any of what’s going on, but there you go. Non-linear connections in thinking make things more interesting. Lately, I’ve been wondering what … Continue reading

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Helvetica!

I finally got around to watching the documentary about Helvetica. I don’t know what I was expecting, exactly, but it was a very nice bit of work. Also, some of the type people were excessively entertaining. Well, that’s another movie … Continue reading

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Weaving

So we’ve been experimenting with weaving. It certainly has an interesting learning curve. The basics are incredibly simple; it’s vastly more intuitive than knitting (or, in fact, the little square peg loom), but technically it’s pretty complicated to get it … Continue reading

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In which your humble narrator loses her mind.

Perhaps that’s overstating things a bit, but for some reason now that I’ve realized that no, really, it’s actually December, I feel a little bit … frazzled. It might have something to do with light. It gets dark so early … Continue reading

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