custom design entitled “Follow the Yellow Brick Road.”
BLUE CHRISTMAS
Above is the one of the websites I manage, kudl.com, for the Kansas City Radio Station 98.1 KUDL. (Click on the image above to view full screenshot.) I was excited that this year, I got to design the entire header for the website. I had…
THE OATMEAL
this site is wonderfully hilarious – theoatmeal.com. can’t sleep so i’ve been going through these comics & quizzes. my current favorite: How A Web Design Goes Straight to Hell.
Roxanne Carter PERSEPHASSA
i could probably honestly say I’ve been following miss roxanne carter for 10+ years now. stumbled across her site today, persephassa.com.
NIGHT THE BUZZ STOLE XMAS 2010
so for 96.5 The Buzz, i not only got to design the overall designs for the 2 shows we put on, but i also put together the video.
i like being a designer. instead of working in a coffee shop, now i’m seeing posters i’ve designed there. YAY!
NUDE AS THE NEWS
Okay so a lot has changed since I last posted. Back in April, I got a job as the web content developer for Entercom, a company that owns 8 radio stations in Kansas City. I work on the websites for 96.5 The Buzz, 98.1 KUDL,…
I’M WITH COCO
talk about bad news. Conan O’brien is apparently leaving NBC’s “Tonight Show.” What I don’t totally understand is why. All that I can gather from all the news articles is that Jay Leno wants his old show back, & so they’re kicking Conan out. there’s…
GOTCHA!
DISCOVERED: incredibly hilarious invention on he Onion – Gotcha Boxes invented by a graphic designer from Minnesota.
HARAJUKU LOVERS
Today Troy & I ventured out into the masses last minute Christmas shopping. At our third store in the perfume section i found what i might describe as the cutest perfume bottle ever. They’re called Harajuku Lovers & are apparentally the creation of Gwen Stefani. Okay,…
THEY HATE MY DESIGN
They Hate My Design – awesome design work from studio based out of Indonesia.
ON RESUMES & PORTFOLIOS
today i’ve been working on my resume as well as getting ideas for where i want my portfolio to go. there are so many ideas & different directions to go that it’s hard to make a decision. but i think i have… it’s called Champagne &…
VIOLENT HEART
please visit my friend camilla’s web page, violentheart.net. she’s been a pal of mine for YEARS via the web & web site design & her new layout is awesome. i’m sure you’ll love her work as much as i do.
ANTIGIRL
& so i have rediscovered antigirl! absolutely awesome.
tiphanie’s work is amazing. i’ve been following her work for quite awhile now & it just seems to keep getting better & better.
KUNG FU GIRL
so last night my parents were very happy for me after getting my very unexpected & very good portfolio review back (which is basically our version of “finals” in the graphic design department at school) so they treated me to a bottle of wine. i picked…
About
My name is Jessie & this is my blog. I live just outside of Kansas City. I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
My name is Jessie & this is my blog.
I live just outside of Kansas City.
I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
People fell into religion because they were drawn by the company and approval of others. It was the oldest drug on the market. People who said they had found Jesus had really found Jesus people.
— Michael Poore, Up Jumps the Devil
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.
— Groucho Marx
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
— Johnny Cash
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
— Gertrude Stein
We loved with a love that was more than love.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
Mother was dead and with her all the strength and wisdom of the world. Nowhere in the world was there anyone to turn to, anyone to rely upon.
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
— Claude Monet
If you're going through hell, keep going.
— Winston Churchill
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.
— Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough.
— Darcey Steinke, Suicide Blonde
When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you.
— James Frey
The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I wasn’t floating on my little raft in the present; there were bridges that led over to solid ground. Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.
'Grief is a swallow,' he said. 'One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some other place, warming its feathers. Sooner or later, it will return and perch in your heart again.'
— Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
The clock moved a quarter of a turn
The time it took a cigarette to burn
She said you got a lot of things to learn
Going nowhere
— Elliott Smith, Going Nowhere
So it's always a process of letting go, one way or another.
— Charles Bukowski
When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.
— Lakota Tribe Proverb
She shut the door in his face and retired to the library, ringing the maid for an old-fashioned. The winter sun was radiant in the windows and her blood thrilled at life’s gruesome pageant.
..I will comfort & console you, first of all I will gather you together again, you're always so battered by the outside world.
— Anaïs Nin
The most important things are the hardest to say.
— Stephen King
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
— Mark Twain
Laughter. Running. Let-down hair. That is all there is to life.
— Vladimir Nabokov
How is something so simple so hard to get?
— Kristan Higgins, Catch of the Day
For a moment, her heart stood still and then a queer fear, stronger than anxiety, stronger than grief, began to beat in her breast. It can’t be true, she thought vehemently, trying to push back the fear. Doctors make mistakes. I won’t think it’s true. I can’t let myself think it’s true. I’ll scream if I do. I must think of something else.
Someone has said, When you are born into this world there are at least two of you, but going out you are on your own. Death happens to every one of us, yet it remains the most solitary of human experiences, one that separates rather than unites us.
— Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
Live or die. But don't poison everything.
— Anne Sexton
I’ve never kicked a puppy, but I imagine this must be how a puppy kicker felt.
— Tracy Brogan, Crazy Little Thing
All that mattered in the world had gone out of it, life was in ruins and panic howled through her heart like a cold wind.
My mind is empty, but my heart weighs a thousand pounds.
— Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
— Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin’
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
— Charles Bukowski, Post Office
If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?
— Tiffany Madison, Black and White
How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.
— Mary Karr, Lit
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
— Pablo Picasso
I ran the length of the sands, hoping to return one day and imagine the drowned once again, but we’d never been back. Their ghosts were lonely as they watched children play by the water.
— Lucy Rose, The Lamb
You could stand anywhere and look off in any direction and feel you were nowhere, and yet somehow perfectly bounded, perfectly surrounded. That was Cheyenne: nowhere, wanting nothing more than to be exactly what it was.
She was drunk or he was crazy. But he did not look crazy. He looked as calm as though he were discussing the weather, and his smooth drawl fell on her ears with no particular emphasis.