opinions, trivia and cultural musings of a career creative
- History repeating
I just got through extolling the virtues of knowing history to know on what has passed before you when I ran across these images looking for something on taxes. Brilliant completely current — makes today’s arguments look like history repeating itself.
Title: Wanted, a leader! - The labor-agitation orchestra on the go-as-you-please plan
Subjects: Labor leaders […]
- The death of paper not print
It occurs to me beautiful picture books on paper will be much more scarce in the future. No doubt it’s why I have a yearning to design a book of late. Looking at a French travel picture book I used for a class reference reminded me of how remarkably well books can draw you in […]
- the icon and the inconoclast
One of my most vivid memories of 2008 were election night. On a giant screen in one of my city’s most beautiful old theaters I got to join the jubilant celebration of hundreds of Obama volunteers watch the digital representation of the electorial college talley votes cast that very day. As the final mathmatically impossible […]
- Summer 2008’s very finest pop
Finally have seasonal music mix worthy of writing about. Though other things were much more earth shattering and would make a more insightful things to remember, having a summer mix of music is always worth writing down for the archival snapshot.
The one thing I’ve always easily spotted was music. Picking bands that would likely jump […]
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- Mother’s Day
It was a special mother’s day and there were many flowers to celebrate with. Spring came late, it’s been many years since lilac was still in bloom the middle of May.
- More of my little foxes
That was a long hiatus — so long all news is old news.
- My first real Christmas gift, Carolyn Ewing
In mid-December my mother went into the hospital with heartburn. What followed was an 11 hour open heart hour surgery to fix an aortic aneurism that had dissected - two strokes and various other complications. She survived it all, and that is probably the most real Christmas gift I’ve ever gotten. But we […]
- The return of the light, December 22nd
I hate winter in my hometown more every passing year - when the light goes and the frigid temperature extinguish the last growing thing more efficiently than a fire I feel like abandoning hope it will ever return. This year with an overloaded end of year work schedule, unexpected family crisis and the onslaught […]

