Honest Marketing and Cheerful Tangents

“His websites, Keaggy.com and Grocerylists.org, have been described as genius, useless, inspiring, stupid, beautiful, profound and a complete waste of time.”

Now, there’s an artist/social commentator/waster of bandwidth I can get behind.

This whole thought-stream resulted from me going through my spam folder, which despite repeated training attempts has yet to learn that I really do want to receive Liquid Treat. A recent issue featured this intriguing book about graphic interpretations of single words (which I think we’ve looked at before; that comes from this fabulous design blog; I really like this series about “Primal” but can’t imagine why none of them feature horseshoe crabs), which Amazon (for some reason) connects to this book about grocery lists, which is a print work drawn from the website above. This tangent cheerfully leads me to think of James Lileks, whose web-work has turned into books, and who has on more than one occasion made me laugh so hard I thought I might actually die.

I think there might have been some caffeine in that coffee I had this morning. I love the Internet.