but it was raining

I gave Stephen a blank pop up book for his sixth birthday.  Here's an excerpt from his seminal work.


ONCE THERE WAS A SMALL HOUSE THEN WAS A CAT A DOG A MONKEY?!
BUT IT WAS RAINING

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury's genius makes this 22 minute talking head interview with an 88 year old fly by.  Here he is on doing what you love and loving what you do, on the importance of libraries and books, the origin of the title Fahrenheit 451, the process of writing, the most influential books in his life...

Twenty-two minutes is a long time, but it's worth it!

Literary greats in bathing suits

10 of em at flavorwire.

Here's Truman Capote in short shorts.  summerrrrrrr

Gladwell book title generator

this is fun

Favorite snacks of the greatest scribblers

I love this.  I kind of wish Michael Pollan's snack of choice was more like Slim Jims and a Jolt soda.  Truman Capote's is perfect.

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Literary Paint Chips

Paint Samples, suitable for the home, sourced from colors in literature.  via The Paris Review

Great (Gatsby) Cover

Collage: the antirational and semi-intentional

Collage is really the practice of a theory of knowledge: antirational and semi-intentional, it takes coincidence and chance materials as part of its method and inspiration. By eliminating transition, it embraces ambiguity, improvisation, speed, and multiplicity of meaning. It is expressive, but not primarily self-expressive. It does not place priority on closure, nor on conventional notions of completeness. In the constant conversation between unity and disunity, juxtaposition plays with omission and collision. It loves the energy of disruption and dislocation. Apollinaire, his contemporaries and their aesthetic heirs were more interested in creating inventive disorientations than in delivering packaged unities.

-Tony Hoagland

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Ben Folds and Nick Hornby

I promise to post something other than a video clip sometime soon.

This looks like a fun collaboration. Ben Folds wrote the music and Nick Hornby wrote the lyrics (author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, Fever Pitch). Probably not an album I'd buy, but this is a fun piece - something I would have liked to have cut.