Sometimes when we’re watching TV I find myself gazing lovingly at my books. (Taken with instagram)
Social Media Fail. The best bday text I got. (Taken with instagram)
Mia’s Imaginary Knuckle Tattoos
I like a nice writing constraint and for a while have been obsessed with the notion of knuckle tattoos. In my mental rule book (rule book — that’s on the list) it has to be an actual bell-ringing phrase of two words, each word having four letters. You get no points for fooling around beyond that constraint. Granted, some like CMYK ISBN are a stretch but it’s more about the pattern, the wink and nod.
People who know me know that my husband Mike Essl has pity fool tattooed across his knuckles. I must say that living with such inspiration is um, inspiring.
If I were to get knuckle tattoos, I’d probably go with earl grey, or maybe text edit. For the meantime (mean time is on the list) I prefer the theoretical, changeable, mutable fun of a long and growing list.
Ask me and I’ll tell you what yours would be. A book review by Heather McCormack was the inspiration for grit glam. That could be hers.
The List Thus Far:
meta data
meat suit
root beer
high dive
skin deep
road trip
POST SEND
SEND MAIL
feel good
cats dogs
cold beer
high life
book deal
deli meat
type face
xoxo xoxo
book mark
need want
need java
must read
read this
THIS THAT
FACE PALM
word play
play dumb
beat odds
even odds
bada bing
bong hits
grit glam
pond scum
they live
book life
lady ship
MAKE TIME
TAKE THAT
TRUE GRIT
sera sera
HERE HERE
bong hits
good plan
nice work
logo type
colo phon
star wars
nota bene
army brat
navy brat
tiki room
mark snow
grrr argh
holy moly
code base
read more
good time
note book
sing song
flim flam
take memo
look good
good look
give back
asdf jkl;
jury duty
care bear
read only
text edit
edit text
holy hell
wiki page
roll call
hard time
hard core
half life
self hate
self love
turn here
call girl
long time
long haul
cast away
full stop
IRON CLAD
SNOW FALL
BOOK WORM
FIRE WALK
PISH TOSH
STAR BUCK
EARL GREY
TODO LIST
FONT FACE
ROFL ZOMG
BEST IDEA
DUMB IDEA
MAMA BEAR
PAPA BEAR
BABY BEAR
RIOT GRRL
PONY RIDE
DUAL BOOT
HIVE MIND
RAWR RAWR
BETA TEAM
beta test
LOVE HATE
hate fuck
make fuck
stay calm
LOST TIME
real fake
what when
jack jill
huge tiny
still here
LONG DESC
PUSH PULL
meet cute
kent farm
play date
warp weft
HAIL MARY
plop fizz
pony tail
stay gold
peep show
CMYK ISBN
over kill
PUNK ROCK
BOOK SHOP
SALT HILL
KNEE JERK
CHAP BOOK
FORK LIFT
CAVE WALL
STOP TIME
SKIN DEEP
HIGH TIDE
FULL MOON
RICK ROLL
EAST WEST
WORK WEEK
FULL TIME
PART TIME
PAID BLOG
DIET COKE
LOAN DEBT
HAVE CAKE
GIVE TAKE
ZOOM LENS
LATE DATE
NECK FACE
RULE BOOK
ROLL DICE
THUG LIFE
VIDA LOCA
ERGO WORK
LONG FORM
GIVE FORM
10 Million and 40 Characters
Some of my old MintJelly blog posts now seem incredibly long to my twitter-constrained eyes.
Even my titles were long! Hilarious.
“Grumpy IT Guy Responds to Your Articles about Electronic Publishing” addresses the perception problems tech people, and technology itself has in the book industry, and reminds everyone how well we’re already getting along.
“Book Expo America Needs to be Like Nerd Prom” highlights some critical differences between BEA and the wildly popular geek-fest ComicCon. Lance Fensterman, organizer of BEA and the NYC ComicCon loved it, so that makes me happy. He’s making good changes.
“Fauxcabulary Lessons (on curating, crowdsourcing, and not totally failing)” was appreciated by my artist friends as much as by my digital publishing friends. It’s about a very small project that allowed for a lot of big thinking.
“The Disinitermediation Era and the ELO” grapples with all sorts of things you might be thinking about…
… especially if, like me, you’ve become a bit obsessed with the question of who owns what pieces of information (publishers? google? authors/musicians/artists?), what happens between creator and audience, and what happens to the creation once it’s out in the world for a while. How can people get paid for their work, and how can they share, gain, or provide some sort of larger benefit through their work?
