Dave Chappelle must be on something.

Will I miss you
uncanny other
in the next life?

And you & I, my other, leave
the body, not leave the earth?

And you, a child in a field,
and I, a child on a train, go by, go by,

And what we had
give way like coffee grains
brushed across paper…

—Jean Valentine (From The New Yorker)

From New York Times‘ “Logo a Go-Go“:

Saks’s chopped-up logo is the latest and most visible example of what graphic designers call a dynamic visual identity. That’s design-speak for a logo that looks different each time you see it — like MTV’s graffiti-esque initials or the customized symbols with which Google celebrates Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day — as opposed to the old-fashioned corporate ones, which always look the same. The traditionalists believe that the more times you see the same logo, the likelier you are to remember it, while the iconoclasts argue that you become inured to the same image over and over and are more apt to notice ones that change or, as Bierut puts it, are “consistently inconsistent.”

If you’re a commuter you should read Nick Paumgarten’s “There and Back Again.” Not because the article talks about “the soul of the commuter,” but because it is so damn long that you’ll get to finish it by the time you step off the the train.

and heartfelt anguish
we stand with
the Virginia Tech campus

Letter from President Hill in response to the tragedy at Virginia Tech.

“Rain Rain Go Away,” a VT tribute from Jin.

A rock tune on “Make the Logo Bigger.” And I thought Visualgui.com is big and messy.

Welcome to the world of Wal-Mart.

Sharing Mong Thuy’s lovely rendition of Pham Duy’s “Roi Day Anh Se Dua Em Ve Nha” makes me seem like a romantic pussycat, but I do it for love. Believe it or not, Donny has a heart too, despite what people might have perceived him as, and it takes a real woman to see it.

Once again, Mong Thuy’s voice wraps around the keyboard like hand in glove, and that piano solo is a pain killer.

His recent work, Sound Grammar, has won the Pulitzer Prize for music. The man deserves it. He has been a jazz innovator since 1959.

Why need to go all the way to Niagara Falls when you live close by Wappingers Falls. On my way home from work yesterday, I saw people gathering around the bridge so I was curious to check it out. I took out my camera and captured the tremendous flow of water left from the storm.