April 2011

Deceived with Kindness

I can’t but think that Angelica Garnett is a bit of a whiner. Maybe it’s the result of her growing up during the birth of Freudian psychoanalysis but her entire memoir seems focused on blaming her parents. Her mother, Vanessa Bell, smothered her with kindness. “When she was alive, I had seen her only as a stumbling block, as a monolithic figure who stood in my way, barring my development

Cape Cod

Cape Cod Beach

A landscape I’d only ever seen before in movies.

Shad Shack is Sad

In search of Daniel Brainerd.

Play Me, I’m Yours: Austin 2011

When I walked up to the post office, I stumbled across a couple of pianos.

Source Code

The three of us were engaged in this movie while watching it but it didn’t leave us much to talk about afterward. We cared about the characters and the outcome of their struggle. The movie wisely chooses to keep its focus very narrow rather than distract us with too much backstory, subplots, or secondary characters. We learn about the situation and the world as Jake Gyllenhaals’ character does, and this

April Fool’s Day 2011

Begin to search for “Helvetica”. Google Helvetica Before you finish, not only does search autocomplete, it changes all the fonts to Comic Sans. Google Comic Sans Be sure to follow the link. Google is hiring autocompleters.