Fyrewurks

Remember how I started a novel a few months back?  Well I’m up to chapter nine (13,413 words in), and have hit a block.  My book, in a way, toggles between realistic fiction and fantasy.  And I’ve built up to the fantastic part (which went incredibly quickly - I was writing up a storm - like never [...]

I had the great pleasure of seeing a Pixies reunion tour, and was disarmed of any preconceived notions that the show might be a little less than exciting by virtue of being a reunion show with the first song.  They rocked like it was 1989! First they did a B-sides set, followed by the entire [...]

Outside is a collection of links and/or articles I’ve found interesting recently. It was a week of sound & vision.  Vision: three fantastic designers (Naz Hamid, Frank Chimero, and Jason Santa Maria) urged us to do more with fonts and took us to El Dorado, Atlantis, and the moon in Lost World’s Fairs.  And Kitsune [...]

I take great pride in hand-making some of my daughter’s toys, and it made it all the more worthwhile when I recently went into my daughter’s room to tuck her in at night, and found that she’d already tucked in a doll I’d crocheted for her in a sweet makeshift shoebox cradle with a little [...]

Today the design community is all aflutter over Lost World’s Fairs, a site featuring three, well, fairs of lost worlds past and future: “El Dorado” by Jason Santa Maria, “Atlantis” by Frank Chimero, and “The Moon” by Naz Hamid.  And here comes the exciting part, these gorgeous designs (which are exciting in themselves) use fonts [...]

Pavel Fuksa has offered up five amazing, free wallpapers over at Kitsune Noir in the style of vintage Czechoslovakian communist posters, along with descriptions and translations of each. I was really torn about which one to sport first, so I saved them all and will likely switch them out in the next month.  Here’s the one that [...]

Last night I practiced some Hanon exercises for about 20 minutes, then tackled a biggie I’ve been wanting to play for a while, Chopin’s “Prelude op. 28 No. 24 in D minor.” The left hand is going to be the trickiest because every measure has a sequence of stretches that go over an octave, and [...]

That’s what I need to tell myself every time I think I need to buy yet another domain name for yet another site, I mean ’cause really, 100 is enough. I’m not kidding, I have around 100 websites, some of which I’ve mentioned here, and some of which I may never admit to!  I have [...]

Sadly, Tulsa’s only remaining drive-in, Admiral Twin, burned down earlier today.  The drive-in became famous after appearing in Coppola’s Oklahoma-filmed movie “The Outsiders,” based on the S. E. Hinton book. But it’s particularly sad for me because I have fond personal memories of the theater, including one of the first dates my husband and I [...]