This weekend my sister Annie turned 23 years old! Unfortunately she stayed in Richmond for the big day, but is coming home next weekend for celebration. Hopefully I can invent a Mexican bean and cheese cake to wow her with. Annie has a big deal appointment today so everyone please wish success on her.
Anna-Claire came for a visit this weekend and our first order of business was to cure Seven. Seven recently waged an imaginary war on Rocky Balboa and as a result gave herself PTSD. She peed on the spare bed nearly every day for a week! Foul. Anna-Claire recommended a Feliway plugin and I think it is working, no pee so far.
We watched movies, went to pilates, swapped music, and went shopping. Girls weekend! Anna-Claire agreed to write a review of No Frill Grill for Broad Audit – a ridiculous opinion blog I contribute to. Her review was very thorough, my only fear is she exceeded our audience’s level of reading comprehension.
I start my new job tomorrow (APRIL FOOLS DAY). I bought some new pens and pencils and am trying not to stress.
Up too late working on work – my reward: Kenny vs. Spenny “Who Can Lose the Most Weight?”! I have never seen this on regular TV before, just On Demand. 2am must be primetime for Canadian reality game shows?
Sites I visit regularly to keep me current and interested in design:
I love Typography - Informative and well written articles about all aspects of typography, design, usage, classification. I’ve possibly learned more from this blog than I did in some of my type classes.
Design Observer - Hundreds (thousands?) of well written articles by a variety of qualified designers. This has been going on for 5 years now. Their sidebar is also a great place to browse as it contains an extensive list of resources: books, links, contributors, etc.
Typophile – This is a fancy looking forum for type designers and enthusiasts. A good place to search if you have a specific question regarding typography.
The Serif – There are an endless number of design gallery/inspiration sites popping up everyday, so I will only post one – my favorite, The Serif. I can’t credit the author because I don’t know who is responsible for this thing.
I was so impressed with this poster 6 months ago and recently reminded of it when I saw a trailer at the movie theater. If this comes around I will definitely see it, it looks tense. Apparently the director has already made this movie once before in Austria?
Today I found out two things. #1: Lou Reed is playing the Norva on April 25th. I’m into old Lou Reed and want to go out of curiosity, although I’m not real current on the goings on of Lou Reed. I hate it when the classics only play their new stuff even though I can see why they would. #2: Stefan Sagmeister is giving a presentation, I assume in support of his new book, on April 18th at the Contemporary Art Center in Virginia Beach. Interesting: These two have collaborated a couple times, here is a link to a kind of old interview/conversation.
Whenever I do something that needs a little bit of my guts, it turns out fine and whenever I go the wimpy way, it doesn’t.
– Stefan Sagmeister
I also “found out” (realized) the ladies at the bagel shop actually look like bagels. As close as people could look to bagels – pale and doughy and the same everyday. That’s probably mean, but they are too, I guess the bagels and me make them cranky.
Dan sang happy birthday to himself today. I would bake him a cake if I thought he would eat it. I would buy him a drink if he weren’t so straight edge. I will not disclose his age (hint: closer to 40 than 10?)
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