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Everyday Overheard

Wig Up the Tree

V: “There is a wig in that tree!” Me: “Where’s the wig?” V: “Right there!” (Points with her middle finger at the tree) Me: “You mean the nest?” V: “Yeah!” (as though saying, “Of course, what else would I be talking about?”) 18 March 2023

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Diary Everyday

My Dad’s Heart Surgery

No matter how you phrase it, heart surgery sounds big. Especially heart surgery, where they replace two valves and part of your aorta. Well, that sounds really big, and in reality, it is. There is no sugarcoating an operation of this magnitude. I find it difficult to confront what I feel. My dad went in […]

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Overheard

Narcissism

Julia: “This is cool, I found an account of a woman who studies narcissism on Instagram”Me: “Literally all accounts on Instagram study Narcissism.” This Evening Update: For folks who want to go down my wife’s rabbit hole: You’re welcome?

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Improv Quotes

Cute at 45

Del told me a great thing when I first started out at Second City, he was art director. I used to get by winking at the audience in my behavior and making smart jokes. And Del pulled me aside one day, after a show, and said “Some day you are going to look into a […]

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Everyday

The Spectre of Death

My 6-year-old daughter, D, recently went with my wife, J, to see Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. A Christmas present for mother and daughter. Upon realizing she would not be going with them, my 3-year-old, V, began to cry inconsolably. I whisked her to the Subway as she cried for her mother. To lessen the hurt, […]

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Everyday

Face paint by 3 year-old

I see your point, sir. I suggest a new strategy, R2. Let the Wookiee win. C-3PO

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Typography

IBM’s New Custom Typeface Plex

IBM’s new font shares a lot of the little details which made their Paul Rand logo so great.

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Diary

On Having Children

Namely Daughters… When D was born, I really didn’t have any idea what to expect not only from the experience of childbirth, and a homebirth at that but of what babies and later kids would mean for my life. I don’t think it is ever possible to anticipate the impact children will have, and I, […]

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Diary

7 Oct 2017

Dear Diary it has been more than 2 years since my last confession. I have been listening to David Sedaris’ Theft By Finding, which is the first collection of old diary entries spanning 1977-2002. It made me realize I really don’t write as much so used to. Chalk it up to starting a family and […]

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Design

Bonsai Contracts

Bonsai provides freelance work contract templates for creative freelancers like designers and developers. Sounds pretty cool, will give it a try on our next project for sure.