I hate restaurants.
Posted on June 2nd, 2010
Most people love restaurants. I’m gonna go on record and state affirmatively that I hate them. I hate being seated, being served (no one should ever be “served” in this world), trying to get the attention of the waiter when something inevitably gets f’d up, looking around at the piles of wasted food everywhere, trying to figure out what the tip is, trying to figure out who owes what, waiting for the bill. Give me local street vendor food and quick/over the counter service, or let me cook it myself.
Eli
Posted on May 30th, 2010
I saw Eli playing with toy guys today-Batman, Frodo, the Mask. I glimpsed him doing it in the front room, in our CA cottage. Probably the last time I’ll ever see it. There is nothing more magical than watching your son play with toy guys; the way their hands and fingers connect with the toy and animate it. I’ll write a book about it someday.
NEA logo entry
Posted on March 9th, 2010
So last month I spent a bunch of time working on a logo design in response to Uncle Sam’s RFP: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/wholl-design-the-new-nea-logo-it-could-be-you/
. Regardless of what I think of spec work, I love high scale design competitions. Too much design is born from who-you-know and schmoozing.
Here’s my submission:
The mccondo
Posted on January 25th, 2010
I’m at the ft Erie town meeting and 2 hours into it were hearing the same pro-condo heads go on and on. Were all in agreement on this point- the town needs more people, more business.
The people you’re gonna get are not what you want. You want people to fix the cottages and build new ones. Most are gonna be summer residents. Sorry, anyone who thinks CB is gonna turn into year round destination is nuts. We need to maximize what we have.