Well, that's disconcerting

The fonts of the year

I know it's September, but I wanted to show off this nifty font calendar my wife got me for Christmas. It's a gift that keeps on giving all year long, with some lovely typefaces, including my favorite font, Rockwell, in January.

Here's a month-by-month rundown of the font styles:

​It's leap year, so there are 29 days in Unical.

• January: Slab Serif​
• February: Unical​
• March: Humanist​
• April: Old Style​
• May: Transitional​
• June​: Modern
  
• July: Blackletter​
• August: Script​
• September: Geometric Sans Serif​
• October: Grotesque Sans Serif​
• November: Humanist Sans Serif​
• December: Decorative​

The littlest luchador

​This is awesome.

super mascaritaa

Treehouse

I'm building a treehouse in m​y backyard for my two boys. I'll post occasional updates on it here.

I've been using a one-tree design from Tree Houses You Can Actually Build.​

My favorite episode of Writing Excuses

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I had assumed "​Hollywood Formula" meant car chases, schmaltz, and gun play​. It didn't. Despite this glaring omission, it's a great episode on how to construct a story.

Writing Excuses 6.18: ​Hollywood Formula

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Eddie Van Halen - Frankenstien Guitar

This guitar is worth more than both my family's cars combined. To up the cars' resale value, I'm going to go at them with spray paint and a crowbar.​

This is pretty awesome--they're selling replicas of Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein guitar, down to all the dings, modifications, and cigarette burns of the original. Its $19,000 price tag covers about $300 in parts, and $18,300 for David Lee Roth to personally drive over it with his Camaro.

Hello, world!

​Welcome to my new website. I'll have updates soon. Until then, here's a fun episode of my current favorite podcast, Roderick on the Line: "Then There Was Pump Chili."