Need to decorate your place? We want to help. My family inherited 700 posters and prints from my great aunt, whose husband was an art collector. They are from museums, theater and music festivals, etc., all over the U.S., Canada and Europe. There is a bit of everything — if you don’t like at least [...]
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December 8, 2008
Ack, a lack of insability?!
This is slightly old news, but I’m staying at the St. Pete Times- in news art part of the week and as a home page editor for tampabay.com the rest of the week! Obvy, the views expressed here have nothing to do with my employer, etc., etc., and they do not ever let me near [...]
November 22, 2008
On the other side.
There was an awesome book sale at the St. Pete Times this week (lots of books! for! a dollar each!) and it reminded me that I hadn’t blogged in awhile. Since my last post: we got a new president, I finished that big election-map flash project to much accolades, my parents visited and we spent [...]
October 10, 2008
So I’m not a complete failure at life…
Struggling with a Flash project… so I’m posting to feel like I’ve accomplished something in the past few weeks. Like reading some books! I could waltz to 50 now… and I should focus on career development (so I can stop making painful Rube Goldberg-sized projects like the one I’m in the middle of now.)
39. “Fathers [...]
September 18, 2008
SND wrapup and books
37. “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston.
I cannot express how great this book is. Fabulous fabulous fabulous. The story of a Black Floridian woman as she watches the stature of blacks in the state grow through grow through three husbands (two bad, one good). Her description of the terrible hurricane in 1928, which [...]
September 7, 2008
A.M. Student Session
Right now I’m sitting in the student session (feeling like a bit of a freeloader since I technically graduated in May, but Kim Elam’s and Josh Williams? Yes, please!). Kim, a teacher at Ringling in Sarasota, went first and her students’ work was amazing. Makes me want to move down to Sarasota to take her [...]
September 5, 2008
BASEBALL!! baseballbaseballbaseballbaseball
So I finally finished 36. “Moneyball” by Michael Lewis! And it was fabulous! Anyone who likes baseball AT ALL should read this book, because it explains a lot of interesting things about the game.
Moneyball is about the Oakland A’s general manager, Billy Beane, who reinvented the team with statistics in the late 90s. The francise’s [...]
August 25, 2008
Kidnapping and circus elephants
34. “Deep End of the Ocean” by Jacquelyn Michard
I’ve always seen tons of copies of this in used bookstores, so I bought one in December and just now read it. There’s a reason it’s in used bookstores. It’s not bad, but not terribly good either. Basically, this (not very attentive) mother loses her 3-year-old in [...]
August 15, 2008
33/K.C.
33. Blue Monday by Harper Barnes
In the 1930s, Kansas City was the home of fabulous jazz musicians and clubs. A young reporter (he went to KU… boo) in this novel is curious after one famous band leader dies during routine surgery, so he checks it out and finds instead a ring of drug dealers who [...]
August 9, 2008
31 and 32, and changes.
31. “Life with Picasso” by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake.
I really like books about artists, so this used bookstore find was perfect. Francoise was Picasso’s mistress for 10 years, starting when she was in her 20s and he in is 60s, but that’s less awkward than it sounds. He basically treated her really badly- flighty, [...]
