Up to about two months ago, I didn’t know what an interrobang was. If you’re wondering, you can check it out at wikipedia. Some folks and I have decided this is a great name for a group blog. So, this might mean that I’ll be posting less here. Check us out: Interrobang.is.
Consider the following two sentences. I envision a visit over coffee after I return my video. I will pay by Visa and you will give evidence of your friendship by listening to the advice I provide…
2010 is my first full year of blogging. I have 123 posts published. And I have nine drafts started that I have not yet finished. On my best day, I had 140 page views. For 2011 I would like to shift gears a little. I think I would like to blog less here at sherwinarnott.org and blog more elsewhere. Here are some other ideas…
99% Invisible did an episode on the interrobang recently. I was interested to learn that early Greek and Roman writing didn’t have spaces! Rack that up to stuff I took for granted. Apparently an ad man in the sixties developed the interrobang…
Questions surrounding ends and means, principles and expediencies, strategies and tactics, have been swirling around my mind of late. In my meditations, I remembered that on Christmas Eve I posted the audio of a sermon by Martin Luther King. I took some time over the weekend to listen to it again and transcribe some of…
Jenny Kingsley is a good friend of mine. And she has just fulfilled an important requirement in her Masters of Fine Arts: she just defended her thesis. It’s not a thesis like the sort we often think of when we think of Master’s degrees. It’s a fine arts program in the department of creative writing….
Ispend a good chunk of time writing. Often, the writing I’m doing is for other people. And there are a few devices I lean on a lot. One of these devices is conversational language. Ironically, it doesn’t come naturally to me. My academic training is forever edging me towards the cliff face of formal and…
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