Silver Screen Fiend by Patton Oswalt
Daily Diversion #248: Silver Screen Fiend
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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Writers in Art: Mary Russell Mitford*
Mary Russell Mitford
*Mary Russell Mitford died on 10 January 1855.
[Book Nerd Links] 30 Beautiful Vintage Dust Jackets
30 Beautiful Vintage Dust Jackets [Abe Books]
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout. 1934.
A Small Press Life: January News and Notes
Greetings, lovely readers! I promise to keep this post short and painless.
- On Monday, I am announcing an exciting giveaway. It will open that day and run through the end of the month. Stay tuned: it is a good one!
- [R]evolving Incarnations returns in February. If you haven’t participated, what are you waiting for? Shoot me an email at onetrackmuse@gmail.com to join in the fun!
- After a nearly two-year hiatus, I am going to start doing book reviews again. Yay!
- In case you haven’t noticed, my new blog, Font and Frock, officially launches the week of the 18th. In the meantime, there are a few posts up/bells and whistles on the sidebar. Feel free to have a look around and let me know what you think!
- Fossil Lake II: The Refossiling will be out in a few weeks. I will keep you posted!
Thank you!
Font and Frock: What’s in a Name?
Here’s a bit of info about my soon-to-officially-launch new blog!
What are your favourite words?
I love serendipitous, melancholy, and fortuitous.
Adamantine, sliver, and succor.
And, oh, perhaps a hundred others. They inevitably change with the finesse or jolt of a passing mood.
Words are surprising things, the way that they latch hold of our imaginations.
Some visit but a moment; others stay for a lifetime.
At the top of my list?
FROCK.
Always.
Aside from its dictionary definition(s), and the fact that it is fun to say, the word conjures up, for me, a kaleidoscope of vivid images that have less to do with fact, and more to do with feeling.
Frock is bold, artistic, spirited, rebellious, chic, and imaginative. It is, in short, the heart of this endeavor.
What of the front half of the name?
Font is the foundation upon which everything is built.
It embraces my love of language, of writing, of communication.
Font
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The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Vincent van Gogh*
- Name: Vincent van Gogh
- D/O/B: 3/30/1853
- Member Since: 1886
- Status: Active Member
- Important Role: Giving art lessons to fellow members
- Hobbies: Going on long walks through the countryside; living intensely; being misunderstood; transforming the art world
Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers by Paul Gauguin, 1888. His beard is splendiferous by virtue of its vibrant hue.
*Vincent van Gogh was an exceptionally talented letter writer, at a time when correspondence was an art form. His letters are vivid, intelligent, and beautiful word paintings.
Daily Diversion #247: Night Lights
“By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.”-Carl Sandburg
NIGHT LIGHTS:
Night lights–city lights– form their own distinct poems.
Bridge
Ball Park
Gallery: Glass floor at 1:00 AM
Bridge: Black and White
Books in Art: Maiden Meditation by Charles West Cope
Maiden Meditation by Charles West Cope, 1847
Hemingway Quote
Hemingway Quote
Get Ready: Miriam Hopkins Is Coming to Town
Just a reminder that I am co-hosting the upcoming Miriam Hopkins Blogathon AND simultaneously launching my new blog!
“How come you get a blogathon and I don’t?” Image: Matthew’s Island of Misfit Toys
The Miriam Hopkins Blogathon starts soon! We, along with our über-chic friend Maedez of A Small Press Life/Font & Frock, will be celebrating All Things Miriam from January 22-25. Click HERE for details.
To those who have signed up: We can’t wait to read your entries.
To those who haven’t signed up: Come on! You know you want to.
We’ll be going – ahem – full throttle, starting January 22.
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 