the daily distraction

talk about your underground architecture movements. i get lots of my dd's from witold riedel. i'm feeling like i have to say it here, cuz i keep putting them on my site without the polite shout out. ;) this is another from mr. riedel: matthew borrett. matthew borrett's drawings are like modern day cappadocia. intricate. beautiful. a little hidden. other drawings are wide-eyed and angsty. still others are space-age delicious.

writing english good. read the email correspondence between coca cola marketeers and a well-meaninged keeper of our language. only takes a minute and is worthy of its own distracting day.

today is the birthday of fellini and david lynch. highlighted here in honor of my brother who turned a year older himself this month. only 17 he is swimming with new thoughts of fellini and my hunch is that he likes lynch too. evan makes 17 seem doable, rather than my own approach to 17 which was embarrassing and attention-seeking. maybe that is the difference between genders. maybe it is the difference of being canadian or american. and while ev can carry both passports, he's rooted in nova scotia. and so it goes.

i found out about those birthdays by listening to the writer's almanac, a reason in and of itself to pledge to public radio. check out the site and bookmark it. go to it daily for a little literary history lesson. plus, garrison kiellor is a master at reading poems.

i wish i could read poems outloud for a living. in college i always volunteered. i know this makes me sound like a geek. but maybe it's not geeky if you can make the poems sound beautiful or resonate with the listener.

» the artwork of matthew borrett
» the coca cola letters
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