Jukeboxes and libraries

December 16, 2008 | 3 Comments

I have a bunch of beautiful books. They’re mostly in hardback because I don’t see paperbacks as objets d’art the way I do my hardback books. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I read hardbacks, certainly. If I have it, I read it. But there’s just something substantial about a hardback book. [...]

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Kansas City: LDS temple update

October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

Shoal Creek Valley, in Clay County.
I’ve never been so happy to be wrong (about Olathe) in my life. Happy dance!

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Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins’s $200M mistake

October 5, 2008 | 13 Comments

And it’s ugly, too.
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The Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art is one Kansas City locale that plays a fairly significant role in The Proviso. I mean, the whole city is rather its own character (or at least, I tried to make it so), but this one spot, I think, plays the most parts other than “Chouteau” County [...]

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Oooh, shiny!

August 25, 2008 | 1 Comment

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Decluttering

August 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

Awhile back, there was a discussion going on over at Six LDS Writers and a Frog about architecture. Why that is going on on a writer’s blog by a permablogger there who makes no connection to literature that I can see (I kid because I love), I do not know.
But I enjoyed his post [...]