Springs and gears.
Hardware
Mobile Production
iBlogger on the iPhone
Broadband
Comcast Blast Broadband
Mai-Tai
Make yourself the Trader Vic’s original — accept no syrupy substitutes.
An original Don the Beachcomber Zombie is also a good choice.
Software
Squarespace
The secret behind exceptional websites.
CSSEdit
Styling the Web in style.
Thumbscrew
Screw it! Make beautiful thumbnails for the web.
Ito En Oi Ocha Green Tea
Tea, please!
About
The Author
The guy behind the thing.
This is the personal weblog of Mark Boszko, though there are those who would call him “Bob.” He grew up in a small town in Southern Maryland, but he now lives near Washington, DC and makes a living editing TV shows and film. He hopes to someday direct a respectable feature film, but in the meantime, bones up on his cinematic skills by watching as many DVD “behind the scenes” featurettes and directors’ commentaries as humanly possible.
The Name
No, I am not, nor have I ever been affiliated with the WMATA.
The story starts with an English teacher my friend AAlgar had in high school, who was also the sponsor of the school newspaper (The Hornet) on the staff of which we were during our senior year— Lindsay Bach. He was an all-around great guy, and a great teacher, and though he got his share of our immature behind-the-back ribbing for his Muppet-like voice and his penchant for crunching Certs like they were going out of style, we actually thought a great deal of him.
Apparently, his then-girlfriend taught at another school in the county, with whom we regularly traded school papers. In the Valentines issue, Mr. Bach submitted a message, which read:
Keemba, a station in the metro, the apparition of your touch in the dark
Let’s shake, rattle and roll— Your somewhat funny valentine
This, of course, amused us immensely at the time. A teacher? Having a love life? C’mon!
Years later, I got in touch with Mr. Bach, and he told me the whole sordid tale… the most interesting part being that his first line was adapted from an Ezra Pound poem entitled In a Station of the Metro:
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Yes, that’s it. Two lines. I hadn’t heard of it before he referenced it, but now I love it— hence the name of my site.
The Typography
Hammer and chisel.
The typeface in the logo and masthead is Golden Gate Gothic which I discovered a number of years ago in Model Railroader magazine, where they use it for the column headings. It has been kerned by hand, and modified in Adobe Illustrator to create the logotype and logo.
The Headings and body text are in flux at the moment, so I’ll update their information here when they settle down.
The background pattern is inspired by a Shepard Fairey design.