Fun Friday Resources, fossils edition 4
/::BOILERPLATE:: I’m going through decades of bookmarks in my browser to see what’s still alive and still useful::
We’re still in the LICHTENBERGIAN menu on my bookmarks bar. I’m going to make short shrift of the project folders, just mention the projects they were connected to and maybe share some of the more interesting links.
These folders of bookmarks are in no order.
First, the BEETHOVEN folder. These are sites that I began collecting to begin research [aka STEAL FROM THE BEST] for The Beethoven Blueprint. Nothing of general interest in these bookmarks. Just wait for the book.
Next, COCKTAILS BOOK. My publisher, after Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy, kept nagging me to write a cocktail book. I kept resisting, which is odd, since creating such a book would be easier by far than any of my other projects. One link worth sharing is “Signs of a Fake Craft Cocktail Bar,” by Sother Teague. (I met Mr. Teague at his bar in the Village, Amor y Amargo.) I am an admitted cocktail snob, and everything he says in the article is gospel. If you’re at a bar with me and I order a gin and tonic after looking over the menu, that’s a sign that we should probably be in another establishment.
(and don’t get me started over bars that somehow never joined the cocktail revival, still serving “martinis” of fruit juicy concoctions, or muddled fruit in their Manhattans…)
Anyway, here’s a great site, with cocktail books from the 1800s on, archived for your perusal. (Over on my personal website, I will occasionally open the Savoy Cocktail Book to a random page, make one of the cocktails there, and either approve it or improve it.)
Next folder, POSTCARD PROJECT. This was originally the “50 Postcard Project,” in which I made postcards with interesting images on the front and a Lichtenbergian message on the back. I’m up to 128 cards now, and I have a macro that encourages me to post one every 45 minutes over on Mastodon or Bluesky, which sometimes I do. Only a couple of links in this folder, both to sources of collage material.
LICHTENBERGIAN PRESS, a handful of links for random things, like stock images, fonts, a lorem ipsum generator, that kind of thing.
BACKSTREET, links for the writers group. One dead link, an Amazon link to a parallel ethernet print server (which I have no memory of needing), and the Creative Commons Search Portal, which is very useful indeed.
There was a folder called KIDS, which I guess was for research/useful links for A Young Person’s Guide to Lichtenbergianism, but there was nothing of interest there at all. Delete the whole folder.
And finally (!) a folder called CHILDREN’S BOOK ILLUSTRATORS, which has only one artist in it. I had started collecting illustrators in the hopes that I’d get up the nerve to contact them about illustrating my still-untitled children’s book. Oh well.
I will be traveling most of next week, so I’ve already lined up next week’s blog posts so you won’t miss me. Where are we going? That’s a good question, one that can only be answered by the good folks of Pack Up & Go. All we know at the moment is that it will be comfortable, slightly chilly fall weather where it is.
