Relevant. (Relevent? Relavent?!) I just had to check. Again.
Brute force is the only way. I went through the same trouble with
necessary, but I've pretty much nailed that fucker to the floor
now. ONE SEE, TWO ESSES. I guess I should start chanting
TWO EES, ONE AY when the r-word comes up.
So, when I'm not updating my vox blog, here's what I'm up to, intake and output.
~ Things I do ~
Josh Millard
Speaks! ~ my main blog, hq and staging grounds. Needs a
bit of an overhaul, but the best way to know what's going on in Josh
Town.
Pen and Inklings
~ (brand new) sketch-a-day plus commentary, as I try to formalize and
polish my drawing abilities.
Laundryroom
Swapmeet ~ weird crap that people leave on the laundry room
table of my apartment building.
Pedestria ~
photographic record of people out on foot in and around Portland, OR.
Metafilter Compilation
Album ~ a genuinely great collection of recordings by
Metafilter users. Profits go to music-education charity.
Order a copy!
Polyorama ~
gallery of combinatoric polyorama art from various folks (including
interrobang,
taz, and iconomy).
cortex
tracks on Mefi Music ~ sporadic musical contributions to my
favorite subsite.
The Aural Times ~ a
(lately badly neglected) singing newspaper; I render headlines as pop
tunes.
ReFi: Metafilter
Remixed ~ a (always badly neglected) review of trends in
Metafilter Past.
~ Things I like ~
A Year In
Comics ~ comic-a-day project from interrobang.
Hilarious and engaging.
Rain Shadow People ~ It's Raining Florence Henderson rocks the blogosphere. Passive-aggressive
ninja!
Language
Log ~ daily linguisticish opinions, arguments, and
observations from a motley crew of academic language demi-celebrities.
Comics
Curmudgeon ~ riffing on and around the more cringeworthy
residents of the daily paper's comics page. Learn to care about
Mary Worth, sort of!
Polite Dissent ~
blogging the ups and downs of medical storytelling in comic
books. I have a thing for highly focused blogs.
Overcompensating,
Wigu, Penny Arcade, Diesel Sweeties, Questionable
Content, Cat and
Girl, White
Ninja, Hate
Song ~ the (very strange mixture of) comics I read before I
put on pants in the morning.
You're The Man Now, Dog ~
inexplicably, injokey, infantile audio/visual memeplex that makes me
giggle helplessly every now and then.
Metafilter and
Metachat ~
simultaneously the least and most necessary links on this list.
There's more that could go on either list - I've got some
other things in the works, and god knows I read a whole lot more of the
web than that up there - but I should probably cut this off for
now.
I signed up at Vox with reservations—not about the site, but about whether I'd use it. I have a bunch of blogs already. Many, even. If I were to find myself in a room surrounded by family and friends telling me that they love me and don't want to see me throw away my life for this blog problem, I wouldn't be entirely shocked.
And, well, goddammit, I haven't been using it. Sorry, Vox. I actually like you, but I'm seeing other people.
But there's all these cool people—mostly Metafilter people—who are using their Vox blogs. I have a bloody neighborhood hopping with people. So I'm torn. Good people! Etc.
So as a sort of compromise, I think I'll try to at least pop my head in here now and then and do a bit of the hi, how are you, the kids are well I trust. Maybe the odd bit of mefi blather; maybe a periodic What I'm Up To update.
We'll see.
I am no author, as it is clear. So let's move on... to FUN VIDEOS!
The best news open any TV station has ever done.
A great photo my husband took yesterday in Varvakios market in Athens. Very Blade Runner, don't you think?
I'm mad about Marc Johns' wry, whimsical post-it-note drawings and other illustrations. Check out everything on his photos group (three pages).
So, in my imagination, this is really big, right? And the bottom "painty" part is really textured and the top "smoky" part has lots of layers of cloudy, sort of yellowed varnish with slight collaged elements in between layers, see? No? Well, then, you're just going to have to trust me that in my imagination it's supah cool..
I'm not sure I'm even going to upload a link to this there - it was just fun to play around (update: okay - I did). And I've found at least one other Voxxer doing Illustration Friday; here are all her posts with that tag. Neato!
I do wish Vox would let us do a bit of customization... just choose a design, then upload our own background (and bullet, if there is one) and change accent colors. This is what I'd do today:
Jocelyn Mathewes has a nice portrait series of Eastern Orthodox women holding icons of their patron saints. My favorite is this beautiful photo of Liana Lloyd, with an icon of the Byzantine Empress Theodora:
Unfortunately for Dora, though, it seems her chief biographer has been Procopius of Caesarea in his "Secret History" where he paints her as a skanky ho. However, Procopius had a big hate on for Theodora and Justinian, and in the same book asserts that "Justinian was,
in fact, a demon disguised as a man because men... claimed they saw him late at night in the palace walking around without
his head" (from here). And one of his chapters is even titled "Proving That Justinian and Theodora Were Actually Fiends in
Human Form". Well, all righty, then!
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