Category Archives: organizing writing

Going Beyond Optical Code Recognition for Writers

Tremendous amounts of primary research material in newspapers, books and magazines continues to fall apart in libraries and warehouses around the world. Much of it won’t physically survive much longer. And much is still unrecognizable to the best OCR software. … Continue reading

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Caliban in the Coal Mines (slight repost)

Mining powers Nevada as it does so much of the West and the World. An activity as nearly old as Man himself. I’m reposting this because Untermeyer needs more recognition for his poetry as does Julie Bennett Hume for her … Continue reading

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Are Writers Made or Born? by Jack Kerouac (transcribed for the first time!)

I transcribed this article from two image files at the Writer’s Digest website. I have introduced line breaks of my own to make the text more readable online. This is a six minute read. Kerouac reserves the word “genius” (and … Continue reading

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Fear Follows Like a Shadow

This is really odd. The green screen trade in still or static photography is well developed and has been steadily growing over the last ten years. Weddings, conventions, special events, all of them have been incorporating green screen booths as … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan and T.S. Eliot

Dylan read Eliot for the most part not at school. Voluntarily, the best way to go. As I understand it, Dylan read lightly and not deeply, as he did with the Bible. It reminds me of Bono with U2, his … Continue reading

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Raj: Our Man in India

$7.99 at my local thrift shop. Superbly well executed oil on black velvet. Okay, I’m never going to get to that level. But what can I do within the poster world? First thing, I’d like to eke out a tiny … Continue reading

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Do You _Love_ to Write?

Do you love to write? I know business writing isn’t often fun, most of the time it isn’t, but do you love the sound of words in your head and do you revel in getting the right words in the right order? … Continue reading

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Artwork on a Roll From DigitalDesigns.art

Google still doesn’t have my site on a direct link. The site is actually digitaldesigns.art. Click here, instead, to go to my site: https://sites.google.com/view/digitaldesignsart/art-gallery  

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Rhodesia Repost from Last Year

This needs to be said again. And again. Before free speech and accurate histories are regarded as only important to white racists. Updated September 22, 2021 As Long As a Free Man Breathes There Will Always Be a Rhodesia When … Continue reading

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The NYT, Ukraine, and The War

The New York Times still cannot condone war under any conditions, even with the complete justification that Ukraine has to defend itself. “All across the United States, small groups of military veterans are gathering, planning and getting passports in order. … Continue reading

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