The buddha board is fascinating. I doodle aimlessly. I think, ah, that looks like a small balsa airplane. I try to make it look more lake a small balsa airplane, and it immediately looks ten times worse. _
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04:05:02 PM, Tuesday 31 July 2007

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I have a Buddha Board. It's delightful; a thin clay tablet that you 'paint' with water. Much of my problem with sketching has always been hiding the evidence. The website is also delightful, but along a rather different axis. Beware, it has sound. It's one of those things, where you have to respect it somewhat for being such a thorough-going and whole-hearted whatever it is. _
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09:39:10 PM, Monday 30 July 2007

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Car Talk, the animated series, which is an appalling notion. The laugh track should consist entirely of them. Speaking of local celebrities, I just discovered that Sven Birkerts, who some of you will remember from his rather striking lecture, lives in town. In case you've forgotten him, this extract from his defense of print book reviews should remind you.

For as exciting as the blogosphere is as a supplement, as a place of provocation and response, it is too fluid in its nature ever to focus our widely diverging cultural energies. A hopscotch through the referential enormity of argument and opinion cannot settle the ground under our feet.

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