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If I watched shows simply based on the posters, this poster would convince me to fly through Season 2 so that I was caught up for the new season.
“The Best Show on Television”
Every so often you hear, that some show is “the best on television.” The two that come to mind are The Sopranos and The Wire. I would say, “Yeah, they probably were.” Recently, I kept hearing that Mad Men was the best on television. We were excited to watch it and got the first season. But it just never measured up. Having just finished the final episode of Season One, I’m still not even sure I’ll want to keep going. My biggest hang-ups: I don’t like the “superiority” it tries to engender in the viewer. I feel like I’m supposed Read more…
Would You Give A Stranger A Kidney?
There's an article in this week's New Yorker that I found affecting. In theory it's about asking whether we should allow people to sell their kidneys. But the affecting part is the stories of people who decide to give a stranger a kidney. Here's the abstract, which is of course not affecting at all. Find a copy of the issue if you can.
Launch Day for www.DebraAustinBooks.com! … featuring watercolor illustrations by Tacoma artist Chandler O’Leary.
Mary and I just launched a site for Debra Austin, an author whose first book will be published in the fall by Simon and Schuster. The book is set 500,000 years ago, with a tribe of homo erectus, our early ancestors. How best to make readers connect with its central character Snap, when she is so distant from us? Working with the author, we thought the best way to go was to illustrate the site with scenes from Snap's life, working to show her humanity. We looked around for a Tacoma artist who could help us with this, and decided Read more…
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