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Monthly Archives: January 2010

BIRDS!

Posting this link seems a little futile, since readers of this blog are few and far between. But if you’re reading this, please take the time to follow this link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/09/margaret-atwood-birds-review
and read the article by Margaret Atwood.
It’s very important.
P.S. so important, I’m actually posting this while I’m at work…

Work In Progress

Who knows when this will be done. I haven’t worked on it in awhile, and then this weekend I can’t stop. Starting to delete a lot of elements to work out a lot of compositional problems.

Another Good Book, and a Few Good Cookies

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris is filled with food. I’ve never read (gasp!) Chocolat (yet!), but I imagine that it was also filled with food, although of the sweeter kind. Five Quarters starts out sweet, then almost half way, gets dark and then darker and then a little mysterious. It’s about pleasure [...]

The Pleasure Principle

Steph got this for me for Christmas, and I am just now finally able to sit down with a cup of tea, toast (with lots of butter) and a soft boiled egg, ready to run my hands through its soft, elegant pages and take in the smell of the press (a favourite past-time).
At this time [...]