It's only been seven days, and yet the campers of PodCamp WesternMass II have already put me to shame in the race to post photos, recaps, vids, and other juicy bits of content on the InterWebs. Rearing up the back, I hereby submit my PCWM2 montage, made with photos from my Nikon D40, iPhone, and … Continue reading A Week to the Day: #PCWM
Listless.
Try as I might to put together a top ten albums list this year, I'm coming up short. While my multimedia consumption hasn't exactly slowed, it's changed. For one, I was the queen of the iPhone in 2009, and as such did a lot more downloading of individual tunes and podcasts than of full albums. … Continue reading Listless.
Making Conversation, Comparison, and Corrections
"She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? ...Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures."- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections It was Christmas night, and my SiL Jenny and I were driving home to my parents' house from my Grandmother's. My precocious little … Continue reading Making Conversation, Comparison, and Corrections
O, Christmas Letter, O Christmas Letter – how lovely are thy bullet-points
Dear Blogosphere, On this, the eve of Christmas eve, I bid you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. My gift to you is a concise Christmas letter - scannable and brief. So grab some 'nog and settle in, or just move your thumb briskly up the side of your phone's screen. 2009 The … Continue reading O, Christmas Letter, O Christmas Letter – how lovely are thy bullet-points
WriterJax Holiday Gift Guide 2009
Ah, gift guide season. My fave. I compiled a list without much of a theme this year - I know, for someone who can't have friends over for dinner without reminding them that it's Luau/Soup n' Sandwich/Star Wars/Walk-Around-Backwards night, it's shocking. But the loose ties that bind this year's list together are merely to keep … Continue reading WriterJax Holiday Gift Guide 2009
