Sidebar revision
The “I” in my sidebar now wears a mask and is socially distanced.
While I was sleeping
A two millionth visitor, probably looking for info on a Frank O’Hara poem.
Happy birthday, Orange Crate Art
Surly teen, or studious young adult? Both? You decide.
Nancy, blogger
Consistently post!
Nancy’s blog
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Oh, Nancy
Nancy is now “an inspirational lifestyle blogger.”
Orange Crate Art at fifteen
Orange Crate Art turns fifteen today. It’s applying for a learner’s permit tomorrow. Wish us luck.
Fifty blog-description lines
“To cause passers to stop in wonder”
Bloggers blogging
In response to the query “Did you write a blog post TODAY?”:
“Did you write a blog post TODAY?”
I like this idea, from Daniel Jalkut, creator of the blogging app MarsEdit.
“Traditional blogs,” past and future
David Heinemeier Hansson: “Traditional blogs might have swung out of favor, as we all discovered the benefits of social media and aggregating platforms, but we think they’re about to swing back in style, as we all discover the real costs and problems brought by such centralization.”
For RSS
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube — did you notice which platforms Russian election-subverters ignored? Blogger, Typepad, WordPress, none of which can be used to put “content” (as it’s called) in front of a captive audience.
Ta
I almost found a fix for my Blogger-and-MarsEdit paragraph-break trouble: there is no -da, only a ta.
MarsEdit
I prefer writing in MarsEdit to writing in Blogger.
So early-twenty-first century
“Well, this is the twenty-first century . . . I think I’ll be blogging!”
“Scroll. Like. Move on.”
Elaine Fine writes about the illusion of social media. Her perspective: that of a veteran of the classical-music blogosphere.
Orange Crate Art at fourteen
My blog is fourteen years old today. It’s an awkward age.
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“My, that coffee smells good.”
New glasses (once again)
A less dour photograph.
Someone is having a birthday
Orange Crate Art turns thirteen today.
New glasses
New glasses, so a new photograph in the sidebar.
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“It’s Mueller Time,” and others.
Seth Godin’s “I don’t care”
I like this guy’s attitude.
This blog in Spin
My blog and me in Spin : “It’s Been Ten Years Since Brian Wilson Said His Favorite Movie Was Norbit .”
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“Embedded in a rectangle of snow,” &c.
Twelve
Orange Crate Art turns twelve tonight, an age best described as “difficult.”
StatCounter × 10
The Internet service StatCounter has just given its paid users a tenfold increase in log size.
Nancy: “BLOG”
Nancy says “BLOG.”
Eleven years young
As for being “acutely self-conscious in public,” Orange Crate Art has always been acutely self-conscious in public.
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Amusing, banal, evocative, opaque.