I am attempting to do National Novel Writing Month this year, and have been looking at the various software packages out in the marketplace for serious writing. In my youth I did everything in VI and at some point moved over to using Emacs and version control software. The problem is that I got lazy. I started spending more time in a GUI than on the command line and have forgotten most of what I knew about Emacs. Emacs is by far the most extensible and configurable writing and coding environment available. It is also free and open source. The downside is that the manual for it is 900 pages long. If ya don’t use it ya lose it. And I have lost it big time.
Archives For November 2010
… But the show is not. It is fucking goregeous (sic?). And wonderfully shot. If you haven’t watched the first episode of “The Walking Dead” on AMC, go do it now. Then come back and read this.
Music history has given us some great tunes and some great lyrics. Also a whole lot of shit. But this post is about the former, so we shall ignore the latter. I hereby give you my personal Top Five Picks For Best Lyrics In Music (Of ALL Time, as Kanye would say):
