Heidekat Writing Services

07/21/2024

On the trail.

03/13/2024

McKeesport's own Arnold Varga.

12/15/2023

Farewell, Master's Hardware in Swissvale, Pa.,
one of the last of the creaky-floorboard
dispensers of thingummybobs
and free old-house advice.

12/03/2023

Egret and egress.

"'Two Egrets in Snow" (雪中白鷺), a ca. 1950 ōban tate-e (vetical ōban), by Ide Gakusui (井出岳水, 1899 - 1978), a Japanese artist active (both in Japan and abroad) in the second quarter of the 20th century. he was best knoen for his kachō-e (bird and flower prints) published by Watanabe Shōzaburō of Tokyo.

09/29/2023

Amen. I recall when "generating content" replaced "writing," and I still shudder.

The term may be popular in an age of blurring lines between platforms, but the Hollywood strikes have shown how the phrase can devalue creative work.

09/23/2023

The days dwindle down to a precious few.

06/16/2023

For you readers out there. Both of you.

At Knopf and The New Yorker, Gottlieb was an editor of unexampled accomplishment—someone who seemed to have read everything worth reading and to have published a fair amount of it, too.

06/05/2023

"Like frosting on a burnt cake."
Good one, Stolzoff.
If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage.

The idea that a job is a passion obfuscates the reality that a job is an economic contract, and sets up the conditions for exploitation.

05/17/2023

Missing those old album covers.

‘It’s Time!’ found Jackie McLean returning to the driving swing rhythms of hard bop, but it certainly wasn’t a conservative session.

05/14/2023

Happy Mothra's Day!

05/08/2023

New hires:
Please sign up for technology orientation.

05/05/2023

Edit harder.

05/04/2023

Relax, Friday's almost here.

05/02/2023

Friends, for a look at my current flights of fancy, please visit the George Heidekat page. Thanks.

08/18/2022

Addio, summertime.

In the final sequence, set at a beachside party, Marcello reverses his sartorial formula in an all-white suit with a dark knit shirt and black neckerchief.

08/17/2022

Addio, summertime.

In the final sequence, set at a beachside party, Marcello reverses his sartorial formula in an all-white suit with a dark knit shirt and black neckerchief.

01/13/2022

Thanks, Barb T.

07/19/2021

Easy pickins:
Backyard pears ripen within arm’s reach of Ken Karsh (guitar) and Kurt Lorence (bass)—not to mention percussionist Subha Das—last evening in the City of Asylum’s Sampsonia Way Tent.

07/04/2021

Left to right. Apostrophes implied.

07/03/2021

Verona Road, 2013.

05/07/2021

A seemingly trivial choice by Microsoft will determine it.

04/18/2021

Ordered the Angry Tiki Dog at a neighborhood pub. Very next day a neighborhood pooch named Tiki was reported missing. Hope everything turns out OK.

04/14/2021

You know you've been working at home WAY too long when you hit "Print," get out of your chair, detour past the office where the printer is, and look for your hard copy in the microwave.

04/14/2021

"What good is sitting alone in your room?"
https://pen-online.com/travel/book-and-bed-dormir-dans-un-hotel-bibliotheque-2/?scrolled=0

Book and Bed hotels have been designed to resemble libraries where, for once, visitors are allowed to spend the night.

02/09/2021

Go ahead; mark my words.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/magazine/the-case-for-semicolons.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

There are very few opportunities in life to have it both ways; semicolons are the rare instance in which you can; there is absolutely no downside.

08/27/2020

Don't pile on the designer.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/27/tomatoes-a-scrunchie-japan-perplexed-by-osaka-world-expo-logo

Design comprises an imperfect ring made up of a dozen bouncing red blobs – some with googly eyes

08/23/2020

A wacky g and a nondisparagement clause:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/business/goldman-sachs-font.html?fbclid=IwAR3deHZYyWJujPRxm-HfocJ1oRK-RrDQbZolEVQkwf1XktdDHI0_VglafeY

The custom-made Goldman Sans is ‘neutral, with a wink’ — or boring and derivative, according to fontheads.

07/10/2020

Hot lead: Still cool.

The casting machine is a clattering, chattering steampunk fantasy, but it’s also incredibly refined. It contains more...

07/01/2020

The numbers of the beast:
https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/06/a-quest-to-catalogue-every-single-house-number-in-one-suburban-zip-code.html?fbclid=IwAR2MoQwUQBizKzkEs_cvEtQS9aetCI2ApK9STvDFOFio0ARtrWNRtq3FaSg

Believe it or not, I learned a lot.

07/01/2020

Restaurant pandemic quickstart guide:
https://momofuku.com/health-safety/intro/?fbclid=IwAR1UVJRp6VQiYn-SqQSdOTaE4Ha48fSS4IA0xbhMwML_ocDbl5s5MUNE5y0

Since our restaurants temporarily closed in March due to COVID-19, our teams have been working to rethink how we approach dining and hospitality and developing enhanced health and safety procedures. Our goal is to not only implement these procedures into our restaurants to keep our teams and guests....