Lucy

Here she is, acting of sort of a guard kitty, only letting the worthy pass through the front door. You’ll be happy to know I made the cut. *whew*

Two blog updates, two photos, two days!

I decided that my theme for November is going to be people and bikes. It gives me lots of room for creativity and confines me to a theme/themes just enough.

Enjoy the preview!

handlebars with style, downtown Minneapolis

Continuity idea: books

Today at work I finally came up with a strong secondary idea for this blog that is awesome and will not compromise my integrity as a future professional journalist.  It’s an effort to have a thread of continuity in this blog that’s not all about me.

So this is the plan: I will read random books that are of interest to me for some reason or another, and write what I think of them, good or bad, and tell you why I do or don’t like them, without faux enthusiastic, disingenuous phrases like “outstanding gem.”  No, none of that here.

To kick things off, here is my first “random book with promise.”

Genius and Heroin:

The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession and Reckless Abandon

Like so many books on my list of things to read, I found this while working on a shelving project.  If this one sucks, I am going to be really let down because it’s such a reliably fascinating topic (creative geniuses who are self destructive!) and the cover at least implies that it’s presented in an engaging, thoughtful and entertaining way.

I’ll let you know what I think (and why!) after I’ve read it.  If you get to it before I do, let me know what you think. OR hit me up if you want to have an e-mail or instant message dialogue about this book.

Happy reading.

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