Navel-gazing if you’re a computer or know one. Boring but included for sense of completion.
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Monday, Nov. 8, 2004: I may see a trend in this Brick business, a hierarchy. When I work for pay, or at least print publication, I not only think hard about clarity of thought in the writing but how to frame the published writing to maximize its appeal to the […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004. Yes, it’s taken most of the month to return to the iBook and these Bricks. It was getting futile. Well, writing for the 12 or 13 hits (14 is a minyan for Joni Mitchell) is a matter of degree of futility: Some days and weeks it’s […]
Bricks are mud (tech diff) Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday 9 June 2004. These Bricks, are not coming out as I planned. I intended humor and brevity, not to mention frequency. What they are appears to be like most other blogs. Is the form dictating the message? I’ll continue to work on them. Brick […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Thursday 9 June 2004. A terrific quote I’ve recently found and logged in my Commonplace Book (filed on the home and work computers) is: “Art is not art if only 14 people know about it,” said by Joni Mitchell, quoted by Jacquelyn Mitchard. (Mitchard is a former syndicated, family style, […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, May 19, 2004. I just realized something about procrastination that books on self-improvement never mention, nor do interviews with so-called personal coaches. It must be because they’re not procrastinators. If they only realized, if they only understood, this. I’ve got a couple of notes made last Saturday noon while […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock May 1, 2004. I keep starting funnier “Bricks,” but anger keeps cropping across the pad with ink, the typewriter (a royal Royal standard jettisoned in 1979 by the Fort Smith newspaper), this iBook keyboard — the medium indeed does not matter. I’ll settle for coherency, dribbling wit as needed. Coherency […]