{"id":9,"date":"2005-05-29T02:51:02","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T06:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/29\/"},"modified":"2020-08-08T23:28:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T23:28:23","slug":"9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/29\/9\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I happened upon the Paseo Arts Festival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nertzy\/16165424\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos10.flickr.com\/16165424_ac66c23dfd_m.jpg\" alt=\"Paseo Arts festival, 2005-05-28\" height=\"240\" width=\"180\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That picture doesn&#8217;t really do it justice.&nbsp; Anyway, I sneaked<br \/>\naround as it was closing and as the band played &#8220;Inagaddadavida&#8221;.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Paseo is a small street off the beaten path in Oklahoma City where<br \/>\na ton of artists live and have studios.&nbsp; I saw a scultpor&#8217;s<br \/>\nstudio, photographer&#8217;s studios, and a lot of closed Indian Taco stands.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I haven&#8217;t been up to too much.&nbsp; The friends and I have<br \/>\nresolved to watch all of the Star Wars movies in order.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not<br \/>\nthe hugest fan but it&#8217;s a good source of trivia for who knows<br \/>\nwhen.&nbsp; (Jeopardy!, here I come)<\/p>\n<p>I hope that <a href=\"http:\/\/grantstake.blogspot.com\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my other blog<\/a><br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t wither and die.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not entirely convinced that I will<br \/>\nhave enough sources of logical fallacies in news articles to make it<br \/>\ninteresting.&nbsp; I will keep looking though.&nbsp; Feel free to<br \/>\ncontact me if you find some.&nbsp; I&#8217;m trying to stick to reputable<br \/>\nsources.<\/p>\n<p>My new phone has better text messaging and photo mail abilities, so<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been sending dog pictures out to Carrie and posting cameraphones<br \/>\npictures on <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/nertzy\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my Flickr site<\/a>.&nbsp; They are decidedly low quality but fun nonetheless.&nbsp; One of these days I&#8217;ll get my actual camera fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Meredith&#8217;s father brews beer (and wine, actually) at home.&nbsp; He<br \/>\nkeeps track of every batch in a notebook.&nbsp; Right now he&#8217;s working<br \/>\non his 57th batch.&nbsp; Seeing all of the handwriting made me wish I<br \/>\nhad something to keep track of longterm like that.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know, I am obsessed with typography these days.&nbsp; This isn&#8217;t just a passing thing, like my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0684831309\/102-7414142-8344960\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cryptography<\/a> phase or my oscillating interest with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0684831309\/102-7414142-8344960\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Pynchon<\/a>.&nbsp; I&#8217;m downright obsessed.&nbsp; My two favorite fonts of the moment are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\/products\/typedetail.aspx?image=FOT0000074\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Incognito<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\/products\/typedetail.aspx?image=UMT0000057\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dolly<\/a>, both available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Veer<\/a>, the design company famous (in my eyes) for employing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splorp.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grant Hutchinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dolly is &#8220;a book typeface with fluorishes&#8221;.&nbsp; I love book<br \/>\ntypefaces, and every time I read a book I spend about as much time<br \/>\nadmiring the letterforms as I do reading the actual content.<\/p>\n<p>Incognito is based on the fancy writing of old maps.&nbsp; When I was a<br \/>\nchild I would peer into maps endlessly.&nbsp; The best part about this<br \/>\nfont is that each capital has a swash variant that goes in one of four<br \/>\ndifferent directions, named after the Latin for North, East, South, and<br \/>\nWest.&nbsp; Very elegant, albeit a bit overused in their type specimens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I happened upon the Paseo Arts Festival. 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