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February 2015

In the End, We’re All Wearing a Red Shirt

When my friends and I used to act out Star Trek episodes—favorites were “The City on the Edge of Forever,” + more

Quote of the Day

“I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 percent who are + more

Bringing Sexy Bach

For the kickoff to the 37th Annual Northwest Bach Festival last night, the missus and I eschewed the wine-and-cheese affair at Barrister in + more

“The Divine Amanda”

Over at First Things, David Bentley Hart has written something of an homage to Amanda McKittrick Ros, author of such turgid prose as + more

View-Master 2.0

Whether you are a tech enthusiast or a person born any time after 1940, you will appreciate this new partnership: + more

Misspellings

Anyone who has ever worked with me knows that I am infamous for misspelling a word in a design project. + more

CK, Marty. Marty, CK.

One of my favorite design authors is Marty Neumeier. I first became aware of his work in the 1990s when he + more

“Moral complexity is a luxury.”

The author Jonathan Franzen was recently asked what he thought about the “uptick” of grownups reading YA (Young Adult) fiction. He tried + more

“American youth today has its fringes…”

Nothing says “God bless America” quite like a 1968 campaign ad for the man who issued Executive Order 11582, thus designating the + more

Pick-Up Lines for the Fairer Sex

So. Valentine’s Day is coming up. If we’re to believe conventional wisdom—which, let’s be honest, is a pretty safe bet + more

Movie Night

The creative field can be exhausting at times, with long hours spent on everything from painstaking detail and pixel-pushing to grand, yearlong + more

On National Anthems and Pop Princesses

Having firmly established myself as something of a curmudgeon, it should come as no surprise to anyone that I found + more

Barbarians at the Gate

Over at the Boston Globe, Britt Peterson gamely tries to put a positive spin on the quotative like. It’s not the + more

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