My 4-year-old leaves so many drawings lying around that sometimes I steal them and add my own captions. I made the mistake of showing this batch to him — he was absolutely furious that I added the wrong words to his pictures!
Everyone can be Batman
You ever get bored and draw Batman masks on everybody in the New York Times Book Review?
I joked about this on Twitter and @philipkennedy blew my mind with this story:
When producer Michael Uslan was first thinking about how to bring a darker version of Batman to the big screen, back in 1980, he saw a photo of Jack Nicholson from The Shining in the newspaper — and he started drawing on it. Uslan turned Nicholson’s famous “Here’s Johnny!” face into the Clown Prince of Crime. And, just nine years later, the rest was movie history.
Holy White-Out, Batman!
See also: “Draw a picture of Batman”
Notice when you are happy
Despite the news and our country being run by utter turds, I have to say I am really enjoying my life right now.
The older I get, the more I try to say these things out loud.
It’s something I learned from Kurt Vonnegut in A Man Without a Country:
The lesson of grace
I don’t know why, exactly — laziness, perhaps? — but I was moved this morning to just take photos of my diary with my Quickscan app and post them here without further comment, just links:
- Francis Su, “The Lesson of Grace in Teaching” (h/t @mattthomas)
- Tom Junod, “Can You Say…Hero?”
- Wendy Murray Zoba, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Drawers
I’m not sure why it took me so long to figure this out, but when I moved into my new office, I realized it’d be really handy if I kept my pocket notebooks and logbooks and other materials in drawers that I could easily access, instead of on a shelf or in a box somewhere out of reach. (In the past, I’d stored blank notebooks and new pens and other supplies in there, but those are things I only need once in a while…)
The top drawer is my favorite: it’s where I keep little bits and scraps of paper that I can use for collages later…
In other news: I like words.
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