John & Belle Have A Blog

So, I suck at blogging, basically.

But here are some pix of me and my brother in Vietnam and Cambodia. We had a great trip, especially the magical night in Hoi An when they banned all traffic from the downtown (including scooters) and turned off all the lights, leaving just traditional chinese lanterns and the full moon to provide light. It was like going back in time, so beautiful. My brother also got the chance to truthfully work into a converstation that he was 15 klicks south of Da Nang, and he totally always wanted to say that. Also, we watched a movie that was so stupid it became amazing and transcendant, summing up all the despair of America in the early 80s. Tank. Don't question it; just watch and be amazed. Favorite quote: (racist sheriff) "They're not heroes!" (news reporter with unrebuttable proof or awesomeness) "But they have a tank!" Yeah, baby.

 

Three Tschichold-inspired S&O Pages

I see that commenters are starting to inquire, politely, whether we are still alive. Probably a sign it's time to feed the blog, eh? News, news? Belle has been busy. I have been busy. We have all had colds, been traveling, returning, been grading papers. That sort of thing. I just reviewed a book about the typographer Tschichold for my colleague Axel's new literary thingummy. In honor of all that, three new pages of S&O:

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I'm in the process of planning to make S&O into a book, finally. It's a bit hard to know how to do so best. (Thanks to those of you who have been politely inquiring after the product.) The problem, really, is that the only way to print it in a cost-effective way is in large volumes ...

But I've got tenure. Some people have got REAL problems, or so I read in the newspaper every day.