Author: James McNally

Powazek Poetry Contest

Well, the friendly UPS man has just been here, and as I suspected, I’ve received another copy of Derek Powazek‘s Design for Community. In the spirit of the Zeldman Haiku Contest™, I’m going to be running the Powazek Poetry Contest™. This time, I need a 4 line stanza, rhymed either ABAB or ABBA. Other rules:

  • No more than two entries per person
  • At least 10 entries must be received
  • If you have a site, you must post a link back to this entry (publicity is required for this to be fair)
  • Contest closes when it begins to get lame

Click “comments” and get rhymin’…

Line Up

Today I began the annual bittersweet ritual of lining up for the Toronto International Film Festival. Today it was picking up the program book. Thursday morning, it’s lining up to drop off my film picks. Monday morning is lining up to pick up tickets and see how many of my picks I got, then lining up again to pick alternates. Then during the actual festival, it’s lining up at every film to get in. Lots of interesting conversations are overheard in line. Stay tuned…

Welcome Home James!

From an email I sent to my gracious hosts, Dinah, Kristin, and Jish:

“Just wanted to let you all know I’m back safely, even though I had an aisle seat in the second to last row on my SF-Pittsburgh flight and we had awful turbulence and the freakish looking permatanned “flight attendant” almost spilled things on me and some old guy almost “air raged” at me when I tried to get past him on the way off the plane since he couldn’t get his bags out of the overhead container and somehow I lost my key and couldn’t wake Brooke since she had the phone unplugged and so I had to wait almost half an hour in the lobby of my building at 1am on a Monday night when no one comes in or out until Brooke finally woke and plugged the phone in and got my pathetic message saying I’m stuck in the lobby and please come down and let me in…”