Before the laser printer, before machines that allowed us to mass produce any kind of product, book-making was difficult and arduous. These days, we wouldn’t consider book-making as a trade or an occupation. You might operate machines that construct books, but it just doesn’t require as much training and skill as it once did. I [...]
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Yes, thanks to the power of the internet, Shakespeare has been able to continue creating memorable quotes despite the inconvenient handicap of having been dead for hundreds of years. Some of his more memorable recent works include the saying “prose before hos” and of course “bitches love sonnets,” which go to join his more classic [...]
We’ve all seen them. The easiest solution to our aching brains would be to simply not look, but it’s like a car wreck that you can’t look away from — like Charlie Sheen. Something just makes your finger stick to the scroll wheel of your mouse and page down to see those hideous words mismatched [...]
Happy Friday, everyone! I have to give my most sincerest apologies for the lack of posts here at the blog in the latter half of this week. I’ve been laid up with a nasty head cold and have been spending most of time amongst tissues and in front of the television drinking lots of fluids. [...]
This morning on BoingBoing, the culture & technology blog, I found a post that connected our literary loves to the tragedy in Japan. I firstly want to say that I am in no way trivializing the loss and devastation that’s occurred in Japan. This is just one more angle from which to observe the despair and destruction [...]
A quick note about commenting: If you click the little number in the talk-balloon button at the top right of this entry, you can comment very easily on what you see here. We’d love to see some comments begin to pour in as that will help us grow our community! A little while ago, I [...]
A quick note about commenting: If you click the little number in the talk-balloon button at the top right of this entry, you can comment very easily on what you see here. We’d love to see some comments begin to pour in as that will help us grow our community! For me, there is nothing [...]
A quick note about commenting: If you click the little number in the talk-balloon button at the top right of this entry, you can comment very easily on what you see here. We’d love to see some comments begin to pour in as that will help us grow our community! Earlier this week, I posted [...]
A quick note about commenting: If you click the little number in the talk-balloon button at the top right of this entry, you can comment very easily on what you see here. We’d love to see some comments begin to pour in as that will help us grow our community! Here’s something I stumbled upon [...]
A quick note about commenting: If you click the little number in the talk-balloon button at the top right of this entry, you can comment very easily on what you see here. We’d love to see some comments begin to pour in as that will help us grow our community! [Thanks to Boing Boing for [...]
