[narcissism, vanity, exhibitionism, ambition, vanity, vanity, vanity]

27.6.08

Weirdly Satisfying

David Bessler's Pipecleaner Dance is a cross between Muybridge and dance lessons from Zefrank. Nb: Use the keyboard; it works better that way.

Labels: time-waster

8.6.08

Dead Media Nostalgia Meaningful Only to GenX

We had divorce and Jimmy Carter and nuclear winter and teachers blowing up in rocket ships.

But we also had mix tapes.

Cassette from My Ex lets you relive those days in all their cheesy, angst-ridden glory. They were into you, so they made you a tape. Today you don't have a cassette player, but you still can't toss that mix.

Labels: time-waster

17.3.08

Not Much To Do Round Here Now That Bear Stearns Has Tanked

made by furmuslbulk
Originally uploaded by boyshapedbox.

From the Flickr pool for powerpointed pop songs.

Labels: time-waster

12.12.07

"Finally" "!!!!" """"

The Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks.

Labels: funny ideas, time-waster

25.7.07

PlanetFeedback.com

I just lost an hour at PlanetFeedback.com, where you can write and send, via a web form, grievance letters to companies that suck. Interesting.

Labels: retail, time-waster

Hi! I'm Diane Greco, and you are looking at my seven year-old exercise in narcissism, vanity, exhibitionism, ambition, vanity, vanity, and, of course, vanity.

More specifically, here is where I stash links, funny ideas, stories about my kid, notes on what I'm reading, practical reflections, reports from other places, e.g., Russia, Japan, China, Paris, and Iceland, and other miscellaneous junk.

I am a writer. That's me, right there, writing in a restaurant.

I've just finished a novel, EASY JOURNEYS TO OTHER PLANETS, about a group of friends hailing from the deceptive, complicated fastnesses of middle America, who struggle to come of age during 1967's Summer of Love. I've also got a collection of short stories concerning generally unreliable DICTATION (is there any other kind?), and a nonfiction book about the fortunes of an Egyptian antiquity smuggled into 19th-century Paris.

Caveat lector: this blog's free, including free of advertising. Comments are open; we'll see how this goes. Email at ping DOT diane AT gmail DOT com.

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