1. AT&T
2. mayonnaise
3. off-the-rack collared shirts
4. the radio (except for NPR)
5. fuzzy screenprint jobs
1. Allison Arieff’s NYTimes opinon column By Design
2. Fail Blog
3. Phil Coffman
4. Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish
5. LetterCult
1. Dave Brubeck
2. Ginger Ale
3. Ffffound!
4. The almost-Autumn weather in South Carolina
5. Adobe Illustrator
1. Sleeping
2. Napping
3. Marinating steak
4. Cooking steak
5. Enjoying steak
1. Cartesian Coordinate Systems
2. Leather-making
3. Screenprinting
4. Statistics related to Data Graphics
5. How commercial/residential loans work
1. Flip flops as viable daily work footware
2. 99% of screenprinted t-shirts
3. Ill-fitting denim
4. Belts with sharp-cornered buckles
5. Baggy khakis
1. Stephen King — On Writing
2. Ecclesiastes
3. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information — Edward Tufte
4. East of Eden — John Steinbeck
5. Re-Imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age — Tom Peters
*Please feel free to respond in kind. I’m looking to add to my reading list.
1. The crazy ferret lady down the street
2. The crazy bratwurst lady down the street
3. The crazy genetically-engineered-giant-mosquito lady down the street
4. The crazy gremlin lady down the street
5. The crazy minotaur lady down the street Wait…that would actually be awesome.
1. Armaggedon via an overpopulation of cuddly, fuzzy bunnies
2. Armageddon via worldwide boredom
3. Armageddon via Oprah
4. Armageddon via the 1 billionth live rendition of the Def Leppard song Armageddon It
5. Armageddon via an asteroid the size of Texas
1. Big D’s Dogs
2. Taco Cabana
3. Rockfish Seafood Grill
4. Jake’s Hamburgers
5. Uncle Julio’s Fine Mexican Food
1. Mrs. Blankenship’s birthday
2. Tickets and backstage passes for Willie Nelson and B.B. King
3. Almost two weeks of ensuing time away from the office
4. Having my first magazine article published
5. Eating the first bell pepper from our garden
1. That beaming technology existed (a la Star Trek)
2. That my friend Katie Brock lived closer than Auburn
3. That Mel Gibson would make Mad Max 4: Fury Road
4. That Toyota Forerunners would go over 65mph without shaking violently
5. That wifi was ubiquitous
1. Dogville
2. The Neverending Story
3. National Security
4. Daredevil
5. The Neverending Story II
1. Benton Sans
2. Klavika
3. News Gothic
4. Whitney
5. Reservation Wide
1. A helmet to wear while riding my unicycle
2. Some Tom’s Shoes
3. At least one Godfather sandwich with green peppers at The Corner Bagel Shop
4. A stainless steel water bottle
5. Part of my wife’s birthday present
*Truth be told, most of this money will go towards paying off debt. Such is the life of young married couples who have moved cross country twice in their first year of wedded bliss and been stiffed by a few clients.
In no particular order:
1. M.A. Turner
2. Derek Nelson
3. Matthew Wahl
4. Josh Boston
5. Aaron Martin
1. Seeing the first tomato of the season growing in our garden
2. Today’s mid-morning nap
3. Using conditioned air
4. Finishing all the rebranded wayfinding signage for NewSpring Church’s campuses
5. Realizing after beginning this post that it is actually Saturday
1. W
2. American Craft
3. I.D.
4. Vanity Fair
5. (British) Esquire
Honorable time machine-dependent mention: Dwell (from ‘02—late ‘06)
1. When people use Twitter to pimp new blog posts
2. Anything that disrespects the user by taking away their control
3. Omission of generous line-height on text-heavy sites
4. Anonymity
5. Blogs
1. Pascal Blanchet
2. Curtis Jinkins
3. Oliver Munday
4. Mike Krol
5. Jesse Kaczmarek
1. Dave Matthews
2. Carter Beauford
3. Steffan Lessard
4. LeRoi Moore
5. Butch Taylor