Dean Allen’s Textism
The return of Dean Allen’s blog, Textism, has been heralded by some folks as a big deal. I loved the clean aesthetic on my first visit to his newly reopened site, but it took a little while for the quality of his writing to sink in. Case in point: one of the items from a recent list-styled entry entitled “My father is visiting,” reads:
We got into a fistfight when I was sixteen and he had me down in seconds
This Mr. Allen fellow does a lot with a little, whether the medium is pixels or words. It’s all a bit like a poem, but longer and you need to scroll and have access to an internet connection.