Yesterday, a good idea took a big step forward. I've been toying with a concept for publishing in a new way for a while now and last night it all came together. There's still a lot of work to do behind - and in front of - the scenes and if I've learned anything on this planet it's that you can't just play the end game. You need to have what else the game entails in mind as you approach something you can show people or it will stall pretty quickly. Thus: sometime soon, this will launch itself into the realm of the iPad:
I'm really excited about it - I don't expect it to go ballistic, in fact I have tempered my expectation into submission but I do expect it to be very cool and for the first few months, that will be good enough for me - there's some seriously cool material in the pipeline.
[MUSICAL INTERLUDE]
Do my ears deceive me or does the new Stereophonics single sound like Journey circa 1986 in rehearsal? While we're on the subject of things that involve the ear, my buddy Kahn (who has started a cool movie type blog thing here) turned me on to Ellie Lawson. If you're a rdio.com user you can find that right here. If you're not a user, you'll have to find it yourself and that will teach you to not keep up with great ideas.
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SOME STUFF LYING AROUND THAT WILL HELP PASS A FRIDAY AFTERNOON BECAUSE YOU'RE ONLY PRETENDING TO WORK:
I have too many books to use book ends but if I only had six books, this would be my choice. Or perhaps this one:
Here's a really good reason to use notebooks instead of a computer to write your opus on. Marcel Proust did this - and I can't be the only one who thinks they're pretty cool:
Pretty sweet H.P. Lovecraft sketch anybody?
And that's all I got for you today...
I think.