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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Video Friday
I’ve been thinking lately a lot about what it means to be an introvert in a world designed for extroverts (and also a singular in a world designed for pairs, but that’s for another post). Susan Cain‘s been thinking about … Continue reading
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Tagged Annabelle Quezada, B*tches in Bookstores, Introverts, Jay-Z, Kanye West, La Shea Delaney, Ni**as in Paris, Susan Cain, TEDTalk
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Over at BookRiot, Wallace Yovetich continues her presentation of the libraries of the rich and famous with a second installment. This week she featured the libraries of Neil Gaiman … Continue reading
Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday
Tagged 12 Days of Monsters, 123Films, Aaron Stanton, art, Athanasius Kircher, birthday surprises, BookRiot, Captain America, Chuck Wendig, Climate Central, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Domythic Bliss, E.K. Weaver, Edward Burne-Jones, endings, Evan Seitz, falling, Hobbit Library, homecomings, Imaginative Realism, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Mischka, John Jude Palencar, Johns Hopkins University, Juan Santapau, Julia Child, Kara Lysandra Ross, Kelly Link, libraries, Lord of the Rings, Mark Badley, Michael Swanwick, military dads, Neil Gaiman, novel lengths, perspective, Peter Archer, poetry, point of view, Pretty Monsters, Richard A. Macksey, Scott Egan, screenplays, setting, sleep twitches, Sting, swears, The Beguiling of Merlin, The Less than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, The Palencar Project, The Secret Knots, Wallace Yovetich, Weird Fiction Review, writing
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Video Friday
My long-abiding affection for “Little Red Riding Hood” in all of its various incarnations is well known, and I’m always happy to find new versions, like the one below. Here’s the description from Cartoon Brew: Red is a modern day … Continue reading
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Tagged Carlo Guillot, fairy-tale films, Jorge Jaramillo, Little Red Riding Hood, Manuel Borda, Red
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Video Friday
Today’s video has been making the rounds lately, but for a commercial it’s quite lovely. Of course, all the icy images appeal to me, but I think the images and the direction (by Bruno Aveillan) are sleek and lush at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruno Aveillan, commercials, L'Odyssée de Cartier
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