especially for gryfindormia as a pick-me-up,

"John McCain gets Barack'Rolled"

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I just got back from a tour of the Scottish Highlands and the Isle of Skye. I've never seen anywhere as beautiful as Skye. It haunts me, it was so beautiful.

Everywhere we went, it was like being in a book or a fairy tale.

I had no idea Scotland was so breathtaking.

He spoke at the Book Festival today at 1:30. The event probably sold out on the first day of booking, but we went to check yesterday, just in case, and no luck.

So we went to see a theatre production of Mort instead. And it was a flop. More like a high school performance with inexperienced actors than a quality production in a good venue that we ( Read more... )

The typography you see around on the street is INFINITELY better than what you see walking around in the US, even in NYC. It's BEAUTIFUL ( Read more... )

Haha, and you suckers are all 5-7 hours behind me and this mighty time zone. (Not including franny, jo, or Jocelyn.)

I am in the future!

Zoe sent me a fantastic typography video.

Font Conference/a>

ROFL!!

"Which one of you do I make sans-serif first????"

"Mailbox! Mailbox! MAILBOX!"

"Come on! Get with the times, New Roman."

She's such a dork.
And we're all such type nerds.

My inability to convert measurements is comically embarrassing. How many bushels are in a ton? How many miles are in a liter? What did the pound say to the gram cracker? "Why, oh why," lamented the third-grade scrawl on my first failed math test, "did we ever think we could outsmart the metric system?"

Passenger stabbed and decapitated on bus.

How does this even happen outside of horror movies?

Some great quotes, from the New York Magazine movie review (May 24, 2008):

(about Sex and the CityI haven’t carped about the smooth-FM music or the fact that the hetero men (Mr. Big semi-excepted) are nonentities. But Sex and the City’s nod to the nonwhite is scary. Jennifer Hudson plays Carrie’s personal assistant, and Oh my God, it’s Hattie ( Read more... )

I . hate . shopping for glasses