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14 july 03 | slowly lumbering awake | wally lamb | msc shad bake
Obviously, getting to work on the website has been a difficult passage | About the only thing I have been successful at updating has been the
links index pages | You can find them at page 1, page 2 and at page 4,
accordingly | There have been some other improvements, but I shant go into them now ||If it's any consolation, every one of the links on these just mentioned pages has been checked for whether or not it is "alive" || There are one or two that are not, and I have kept them listed after writing to the site maintainers who have promised that their sites shall be back up before long ... though I suspect I am not the best determiner of how long "not long" would be || I hope you'll bear with me as the creative juices get back a runnin' || I also got a new computer and I'm learning Dreamweaver, which I hope shall make site maintenance more manageble || 
Of late, I've been reading Wally Lamb's
book I know this much is True,
a tome I have avoided reading for five years since it is allegedly -in part- about the place where I work || Didn't want a second opinion, I suppose, especially from a gifted wordsmith
and astute social critic || 900 pages and one of those bokks one can't put down || An engrossing work about twin brothers, one living in a shadow parallel world grown out of
of paranoid schizophrenic preceptions, a peek at the social control systems which wrench apart people's lives and mix helpless indigents with really dangerous people ||
As to whether it is those who committed high profile crimes or those who run such systems that are the more deranged, well, future historians shall be better equipped
to more fairly determine that ||
the moodus sportsman's club has an annual shad bake every june || this photo is one of a couple dozen I snapped [that's right!
it isn't digital] but it seemed to capture the essence of the event || That isn't me | My regular stint is to park the cars and pick-ups and to best arrange storage
space in the sheds [good job for a pack rat, eh?] || As with hand typesetting [see my note in the corner to the right] the work at the shad bake is all by hand,
using methods around long before vacuum pack and portion control entered the culinary mainstay || The shad, caught during the spring freshet of the Connecticut
River, all get filleted and baked on rock maple plants in front of a long fire pit || the taste is incomparable ||
ABOUT THE "PIX OF THE DAY": Each "day" I present a new image from my own work. The image may or may not be relevant to the text the is next to it. The purpose is more to show off my work | Hope you like them |
e-mail | you can write me either at wbrady@rondak.org or at will-b@earthlink.net | I have a couple of older e-mail addresses which have become so clogged with spam that I barely look at them anymore | Too bad, really, since I still seem to get a number of notes on US Civil War artists on one of them | I won't write you back from the old addresses | Regrets for this inconvenience | other stuff || ECONOMIC TREASON: Do travesties like ENRON make your blood boil? There's a new discussion group on the Yahoo Groups website. The conversation has just begun. Participants are welcome. Stop by, sign up, and add your POV. This website is maintained by Will Brady / wbrady@rondak.org / Last update: see most recent entry |
about yer host   on typesetting 
| It was hot type compositing which brought me here | gave me the love of printed form, and the passion to play with the printed word || | And the love of the image, the weights of the leads and rules, finely detailed engravings, half-tones and molded ornament became as internalized in me as the smell of printer's ink imbued my nostrils || | This is what inspires me to compose the page, even though the outcome doesn't always measure up to the standars of the fine typographers of the early 20th century | By that time, even the foundry font books were works of art || | In future editions of this blog space, expect more on this subject | until then, a sample of other sites about the fine art of typesetting || | book arts archives | from page space to e-space | typesetting glossary | woodside press | What's up with this? | yer host's booklist | events of interest | write me | travelogue | madbook | homo ruminations search engines | iTools | all the web | scrub the web | altavista | northern light plague you with cookies or pop-up adverts but still okay to use | dogpile | yahoo | hotbot
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