Ro-Revus Talks About Worms
April 20th, 2008 — 10:54pm
I was gardening today with my friend Randal, father of a some-months old baby. In my mind, gardening + small children = Ro-Revus Talks About Worms
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Archive for April 2008
The Secret
April 9th, 2008 — 1:19am
The Secret of Keeping Friends
By Emily Post
63 pages. Rust Craft Publishers. Out of print.*
[Warning - book spoiler!]
Call me stupid, but I have to admit I was actually hoping to learn Emily Post’s secret to keeping friends when I got this book, even if it was mostly relevant to the year MCMXXXVIII when it was published. And I guess I did.
NYC part 2: New York vs. Tokyo
April 7th, 2008 — 1:34am
As I get older, I find myself being kind of…oh what’s the word…anal about researching trips. I used to just go somewhere and figure it out when I got there. Nowadays, I need to gather guides, have a marked map, read travel writing, have a plan written down in my notebook, or else it’s just upsetting. Although, maybe that’s not oldness talking. Maybe it’s just an I-need-a-hobby thing.
In any case, I’ve discovered that the good thing is that all this planning results in being able to string together related ideas from trip to trip. For instance, I wrote in a previous post about my ongoing Magazine Store Tour of North America. A future post will probably be about eating experiences around the world in the presence of taxidermy. Today, apropos of nothing, I am tallying up the similarities I’ve noted between the last two major places I’ve visited: New York and Tokyo.
NYC part 1: Giant Robots and Superheroes
April 2nd, 2008 — 1:35am
I started to write something about how I enjoy reading magazines that have actual places and people attached to them that I can go visit in real life because you know, it’s fun, and I was going to point to two of my all-time favourites, Giant Robot and McSweeney’s, both of which I went to see on my trip to New York last week (woo). But then I got to thinking about why I like to hunt these places down. Getting to talk to the people? Buying stuff? Experiencing the magazine in real life somehow? I’m not really sure what it is, but to me what these two places have in common is the ability to project a vision off their pages into real life.
For anyone wanting to hunt down these places, I have some good news and I have some bad news.