Thursday Things

Substack is going from strength to strength. They just launched their Notes function, which is basically Twitter without the crazy (at least so far). If you have a Substack account, you should check it out.

I put up a piece yesterday, about getting started with a writing project: Just Do It - by Julian Simpson - Development Hell, which is as much a kick up the ass for me as it is for anyone reading it.

Figuring out how Cartoon Gravity and Development Hell integrate and, within that, what constitutes a newsletter on Cartoon Gravity and what is just a blog piece, is an ongoing topic for me. I really don't know what the reach of these site-only posts is. But at the same time, I don't want to be assaulting peoples' inboxes all the time.

Cartoon Gravity was always supposed to be a kind of scrapbook of thoughts, ideas and influences. So I should probably be treating it more like a public journal.

I got lost in this piece on Messy Nessy Chic at the weekend: Let's Window Shop for French Fairytale Homes Again. I was especially taken with the one that feels like a Wes Anderson set (see image above)

This is also worth your time: 50 Amazing Photos from the Golden Age of Air Travel (I remember being amazed, reading the novel of Diamonds Are Forever, when Bond gets a sleeper cabin on a plane across America.)

I may have some new Pleasant Green news to share soon.

Have a good one.