I've worked as a newspaper copy editor, signmaker, cartoonist, prosthetic limb sculptor, CSS guru, and several other things. Right now I'm a creative director for a small web publishing company. I like good music, good books, and big laughs.
more humane than humane May 4
"You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house." -- C.S. Lewis
...nor a lender be May 3
"Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them." -- Evan Esar
slavery must ensue Apr 2
"Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue." -- John Witherspoon The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, 1776
parasites Mar 23
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” --Thomas Jefferson
exorcism is in implementation Mar 23
"The devil is in the details, but exorcism is in implementation, not theory." -- Dave Farley
Arcana, Hammock, Desiderii Marginis, Battles, Once We Were, Nordvargr & Drakh, Aethenor, Stafrænn Hákon, The Album Leaf, Explosions in The Sky, Deaf Center, Brian Eno, Sigur Rós, Garmarna, Helios, Seidenmatt, Fridge, Holler, Wild Rose!, In The Country, M83, Clogs, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, efterklang, Loney Noir, Amiina, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Doves, Four Tet, Air, Yo La Tengo, Calexico, Arvo Pärt, Spoon, The French Kicks, The Shins, Snow Patrol, Air, David Bowie, Percy Mayfield, Röyksopp, Tinariwen, Kate Maki, John Coltrane, Steve Earle, Sonny Rollins, Okkervil River, Van Morrison, Miles Davis, Gil Evans, The Bulgarian Voices, Thievery Corporation, Apparat, Robert Bradley, Balanescu Quartet, Quincy Jones, Amon Tobin, The Bad Plus, Otis Redding, The Cook Trio, Death Cab for Cutie, Guided By Voices, Peter Bruntnell, Randy Newman, Robert Johnson, Audrey, Howard Hello, Pinback, Robert Miles, Afro Celt Sound System, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Bloc Party, Tangerine Dream, Caribou, Interpol, Red House Painters, Mark Isham, David Bowie, Squarepusher, The Walkmen, Albert Hammond, Jr., William Ackerman, Aphex Twin, Nick Drake, The Police, Radiohead, O.V. Wright, Papa M, Pedro the Lion, Counting Crows, Peter Gabriel