Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

Great. Just great. I’ve drunk about a gallon of water already today. Good thing I’m not pregnant.
NEW YORK (AP) City Health Department officials are warning that because of recent heavy rainstorms, higher than normal levels of particles have been detected in the City’s drinking water supply, which can interfere with the water chlorination process.

Check out this MIT Weblog Survey and answer some questions about blogging and weblogs. I love taking these things because I imagine what kind of assumptions they will make from my answers. I’m really curious about the results. It’s quick and easy. Something you can do in a few minutes on a boring afternoon.
As a [...]

When you are a beginning designer, you spend most of your time idolizing design magazines and annuals, with dreams of appearing in those hallowed pages of the design masters from around the world. You pore over each magazine as soon as it comes; you read every word hoping to glean some of the creativity that [...]

What would a blogger be without doing a daily review of the stats page? Would any of this be as worthwhile if you didn’t get to count up your daily number of unique readers every morning with your coffee? No doubt I’m interpreting all my stats wrong, but for the time being I’m going to [...]

Rah rah rah, look at the president at Fort Bragg. Blah blah, September 11th, terror, fighting against freedom blah blah. Thanks Mr. President for that speech. I’m pretty sure you’ve given it about three dozen times this year already. Although now you’re reinforcing the freedom angle and neglected to mention the WMD thing. So if [...]

1. You know how to supress giggles when someone asks for a red PMS swatch.
2. You know that a “hickey” is a mark or flaw caused by dust or a scratch on an offset press. And you know how to supress the giggles when someone at the print shop yells “There’s goddamn hickies all over [...]

…not very inspired. I blame the heat. I blame all the excellent bad food I ate this weekend. So while I search for any semblance of humor and or writing talent, here’s a nice rant by the son of the ersatz greatest American*.
Democrats out of touch with American values? Oh, I don’t know. [...]

I’ve gotten a few requests for some desktop versions of my Green Apple Header image over the past few months, so I’ve put together a few different versions that you can download. If you’re looking for a size that isn’t here or none of these work for you, let me know and I’ll try and [...]