Surviving Myself
Ahh, Fuck it.
Picture of Herself (Prompt: Showing and Telling)
She made herself breathe. If she couldn’t breathe she couldn’t think and she wanted, for the time being at least, to be able to think. To see a way out. The darkness made her heart seem more…
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A butcher shop with a killer identity: Austin-based Ptarmak designed a full range of letterheads, packaging, and business cards for The Chop Shop, and I love how the identity feels like a totally modern take on the classic butcher shop look.
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Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, p.80 (via DI). Bringhurst continues:
The em dash is the nineteenth-century standard, still prescribed in many editorial style books, but the em dash is too long for use with the best text faces. Like the oversized space between sentences, it belongs to the padded and corseted aesthetic of Victorian typography.
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Oh Spinoza, you sexy bastard.
Word that gave it away? Juxtaposition.
Found a really great sentence in one kid’s paper. Took me a second to realize it was word for word what I said to them about the text.
Finals week: why I am up at the same time I’m normally going to bed. Sigh.
