Daily Diversion #128: Do Not Be Angry With the Rain*

Posted on May 18, 2013 by maedez

Rainy Day Window

* “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”-Vladimir Nabokov

The Dead Writers Round-Up: May 18th-20th

Posted on May 18, 2013 by maedez

Nathaniel Hawthorne died on 5/18/1864. “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.” (The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables; The Blithedale Romance; Twice-Told Tales)
George Meredith died on 5/18/1909. “There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.” (The Adventures of Harry Richmond; Diana of the Crossways; Modern Love)
William Saroyan died on 5/18/1981. “No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend, and there are many more of these than one would expect.” (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze; The Human Comedy; The Time of Your Life)
James Boswell died on 5/19/1795. “I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.” (The Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides; Life of Samuel Johnson) Continue reading →

[Book Nerd Art] Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington

Posted on May 18, 2013 by maedez

The frontispiece from Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington. 1922. Illustrated by: C. Allan Gilbert and Worth Brehm.

Frontispiece of Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington

[Book Nerd Links] Fascinating Early-20th-Century Color Photos of Famous People

Posted on May 17, 2013 by maedez

Fascinating Early-20th-Century Color Photos of Famous People [courtesy Flavorwire]

There are several writers included. Be sure to come back and let us know your favourite!

[R]evolving Incarnations: A Questionnaire for Passionate Readers-Let’s Review

Posted on May 17, 2013 by maedez

[R]evolving Incarnations: A Questionnaire For Passionate Readers is an interview series done in classic Q&A format. Each entry features one intrepid writer/blogger/artist/creative mastermind as they take on the same 40 reading-themed questions and scenarios.

So far we’ve featured 3 amazing bloggers. If you missed any of their interviews, now is a great time to catch up!

Inspiration Board: 16th May 2013

Posted on May 16, 2013 by maedez

“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.”-Janis Joplin

O, You Bad Girl!

Near Sydenham Hill. Camille Pissarro, 1871.

Paulette Goddard, on the cover of Cinegraf, October 1935.

Columbus Skyline Panorama by Derek Jensen, 2006

Bobbed-Hair Bimbos

My Fox Box

Lya de Putti

Daily Diversion #127: Packing My Babies

Posted on May 15, 2013 by maedez

I had to do it, eventually.

I am just getting started. The books in the middle box look like they have hatched an escape plan.

I hate packing my books. Even though I am just getting started, my studio already seems bereft of a certain energy.

“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”-Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833.