I saw _Finding Neverland_ on the plane to Japan (right; more about Japan soon), and thought it was really incredible. Here's my attempt to capture Johnny Depp's portrayal of Barrie. The quote, in case you don't recognize it, is from the novel _Peter Pan_, said by Peter himself. I think there should be semicolons, but realized that too late. Oops. 

Ulterior motive....

You know how I said that I opened this blog to keep people updated on my doings? Well, I also wanted a way to share these desktop collages that I keep making. They're fun and amazingly addictive, and I had a thought that some other people might find them interesting.

Here's the necessary disclaimer: I do not have rights to any of these pictures nor to the people pictured in them. I mess with them and make them pretty because it's fun. Don't hate me. Let me know if you have a problem, and I can remove the objectionable material.

In the meantime, enjoy the pictures. They're rather an odd assortment; basically whatever has captured my immagination at the moment that I can also find appropriate pictures for on the internet. (For instance, it's hard to do a collage about a really awesome novel.) I usually put a text in each collage, largely as a way to unify the images. The text is related to the images, but sometimes the connection is not terribly obvious. If I make an error in the text, I appologize beforehand; most of them I don't verrify. Bad English major! No cookie.

This is a desktop collage I made of photos of Kenneth Branaugh. I know the quote is from Henry V although I don't have any photos from Henry V in the collage and Branaugh's character doesn't speak the line anyway. I thought it was still appropriate. 

As I was taught in eleventh grade, that is the traditional name for a computer programer's first program, and it was the name of my first program in HTML and C++... I can't remember what happened in college. Now I sound like a programer, which I'm not.

I'm a bit unsure about what the proper tone is for a blog. I've never really read any, although I suppose now I should. I started this so that I could keep in touch with my far-flung friends, many of which have been recently flung or are currently in transit. Whee! But it occurs to me that if this is going to really be up on the Net, some otehr people might stumble across it as well. So should I write to the people I know or to the people who don't know me? Of the people who know me, everyone knows me in a slightly different way, and I tend to talk and write to everyone in a slightly different manner. Of the people who don't know me, I suppose I should explain some of my quirks, but on the other hand, I don't want to explain too much in case anyone should take it into his/her head to begin to stalk me. I don't know why anyone would want to because I'm really not all that interesting, but I'm egotistical enough to think it's in the realm of possibility that someone might be mistaken as to my letter of interestingness. Therefore, I may be intentionally obscure in the manner of the Victorian novels which some of you know I love, referring to people and places by their first initial and a dash, as in V------, my alma mater, and R-----, my former roommate.

This stream-of consciousness form is extremely addictive.

If you don't know me, basically all you need to know is that I'm not a very good speller, so I appologize.

If you do know me, my ambition in this blog is to keep you abreast of my doings and show you some pictures, as an alternative to mass emails. We'll see how that works out. Best made plans of proverbials and proverbials and all that. :)