Oh Semicolon! Wherefore art thou?

Amy found this piece in the NY Times about semicolons; she sent it to me, and I quote, as “the first tangible support for blogging that has passed from me [Amy] to you [Tony].”

The piece is great, and includes a quote from Kurt Vonnegut that sears: “When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life. Old age is more like a semicolon.”

You also can’t pass up a mass-murderer who is well-versed in the rules of grammar: “One of the school system’s most notorious graduates, David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam serial killer who taunted police and the press with rambling handwritten notes, was, as the columnist Jimmy Breslin wrote, the only murderer he ever encountered who could wield a semicolon just as well as a revolver. (Mr. Berkowitz, by the way, is now serving an even longer sentence.)”

Can’t Get No – by Rick Veitch

An interesting graphic novel that you probably need to read four or five times to truly absorb. Rented it from the library (has a quote from Neil Gaiman, who I love, on the cover), and read it through on a Sunday morning with coffee (as opposed to the NY Times reading, jazz listening white people out there).

Veitch’s words are dense and deep – like I said, you need to read slowly and repeatedly to “get” them. He takes on “big” concepts and centers them around 9/11. An interesting, but tough, read.

Finihsed: 3/2/08
Pages: 352
Running page count: 4,782

Tom Waits cover

Found this cover of Tom Waits from Brazilian artist, Cibelle. Not only does the song sound great, the animation effects are quite interesting. They “match” the song very well.

Living in what future

Bruce slamming Bush! Always a high point…