Trivial Pursuits

"It was a crime at the time, but the laws we changed 'em."

All of a sudden, I seem to have become wildly enamored of The New Pornographers.

adverbially posted by Martin Marks at 10:10 in the evening // three comments by:

• Remi
• Martin
• Martin

 

I'm in training for the Badass Games.

Yesterday I made rubber; today I make bread. I've never done it all by hand before; I don't think I realized exactly what I was committing to when I first put the Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the lukewarm water, but I'm about halfway through now and so far it doesn't appear I've screwed anything up too badly. Unfortunately, I only have one bread pan and two loaves worth of dough... but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Cooking—baking in particular—seems to be my new hobby. It's tastier than writing, the results are less abstract, and it doesn't tire the brain so mercilessly. More to the point, I've never heard of anyone suffering baker's block. Anyway, chicks dig it. (Right?) It's funny, because the only things I actually have in my fridge, more or less, are bread products. Two loaves of preservative-free bread are absolutely the last things I need right now. But it is relaxing.

animatedly posted by Martin Marks at 8:56 in the evening // nine comments by:

• Tori
• Martin
• Martin
• Libby
• anne
• Martin
• Moss
• Tania
• Erika

 

I excreted a latex-bearing sap!

Today I made rubber! How cool is that?

agitatedly posted by Martin Marks at 12:40 in the afternoon // comment? by:

 

NOT A VIKING

Joss Whedon has gone temporarily—but creatively!—insane. (And there's more! Also, more!)

(Via his Lorefulness.)

wantonly posted by Martin Marks at 8:39 in the evening // one comment by:

• Libby

 

Because it's completely useless to me.

A present for Mac-user writers out there. (WriteRoom in particular strikes me as potentially a very good thing.) With my own personal favorite word processor for fiction—RoughDraft—now in its third year without an update, I almost find myself wishing I had a Mac.

clandestinely posted by Martin Marks at 8:09 in the evening // four comments by:

• Tim
• Martin
• Fafner
• Martin

 

Hooray for impulse consumption!

God help me, I just ordered HBO. You can probably guess why. If it weren't for the free video on demand feature, I would have been able to resist. Whatever, man, I have a job, right? I can indulge if I want to.

stentoriously posted by Martin Marks at 5:00 in the afternoon // one comment by:

• Martin

 

"I seem to be having tremendous difficulties with my lifestyle..."

I've been having a weekend of moderate frustrations. Except all the things that should have been frustrating, they weren't for some reason.

chimerically posted by Martin Marks at 4:57 in the afternoon // one comment by:

• Martin

 

Not out loud, fortunately.

Wow. Did I seriously just come up with a medieval Persian poetry joke?

condescendingly posted by Martin Marks at 10:17 in the evening // comment? by:

 

We are not a-Mused.

It's not writer's block, it's a sympathy strike.

bawdily posted by Martin Marks at 10:26 in the evening // one comment by:

• Tanya