Experiencing good typography is like walking into a well-lit room. You may not stop to analyze it, but good lighting makes you feel better, and if it makes a sudden change for the worse, you will know it.
— Ellen Lupton, curator of contemporary design, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
I couldn’t agree more.
In response to my friend who teaches at a Middle School back in MD and caught one of her students with a pager/beeper:
4:03 PM Me: Pagers still get service???
Friend: well this bamma had it set on “alarm” so that it went off
i guess to makes it look like someone was paging him
crazy, [...]
“Your art was the prettiest art of all the art.” — Roy to Pam on the office
Had a recent discussion about the difference between Southern vs. Soul Food. I will keep the restaurant names out of it. (Paraphrased of course)
Convo between D and Myself
D: i watched STOMP THE YARD on that joint - 2:45 PM
aL: HAHAHA - 2:46 PM
aL: NO YOU DIDNT!!! - 2:47 PM
D: LMAO - 2:47 PM
D: well… - 2:48 PM
D: i didnt finish it…it looked stupid - 2:48 PM
D: i watched the first 5 or 6 minutes - 2:48 PM
D: [...]
2:18:20 PM aim: guess who i just got out of a meeting wit
2:18:45 PM me: ?????
2:19:02 PM aim: Clue- one of the biggest names to come outta maryland
2:18:45 PM me: Toni Braxton???
2:20:56 PM aim: no but right era
2:21:45 PM me: Laura from Family Matters
2:22:06 PM aim: HAHAHAHA
2:22:24 PM aim: the dragon himself
2:22:35 PM me: SISQO!!!???
2:22:45 [...]
aL: (Copied from okayplayer.com) “Ain’t got nothing to do with old school, new school,
Dirty South, West Coast, East Coast; this about us.
This our thing. This came from the gut, from the blood.
From the soul. This is our thing. So I say what I say.
And I say what I say, and I mean it.
Y’all take it [...]