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Ten years ago today…

09.21.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

The number 10 painted on concrete

… I bought the ohick.com domain.

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Categories // Oh, Ick Tags // fictionary, fixed mindset, guitar, iceland, pragmatism, the practice

Happy fifth!

01.09.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

The number 5 painted on a white-painted window.
Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

Five years ago, I wrote my first post on Oh Ick.

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Categories // Oh, Ick Tags // barbara ehrenreich, bright-sided, fiction, fictionary, iceland, john david irvine, short story

Notes and Thoughts on Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work

12.26.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Blackout poem: "I write what I want to read."
Newspaper blackout poem from Austin Kleon’s website: https://austinkleon.com/2014/06/11/mission-statement/

I’m afraid that all I really needed from this book was the title: Show Your Work.

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts, Oh, Ick, Prattle Tags // austin kleon, brian eno, david byrne, ian svenonius, john scalzi, metrics, notes and thoughts, outdoor elvis, paul bloom, piper cj, pragmatism, rick beato, robin sloan, seth godin, show your work, sidney lumet, sting, the night and its moon, the swirling eddies, tim ferriss

I’m back!

12.22.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

"Grand Re-opening sign"

What’s the point of a blog if I never post?

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Categories // Oh, Ick, Prattle Tags // austin kleon, elon musk, music, social media, tiktok, twitter, youtube

Whence “Oh, ick”?

05.14.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

License Plate that says Oh Ick

I’ve had the same license plate for something like 25 years—on my last five vehicles, at least. OH ICK.

It still sums things up perfectly.

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Lessons from the Skinner box: False metrics and the beginning blogger

05.07.2018 by Greg Kemble // 2 Comments

My blog is a Skinner box.

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The why and what of ohick.com

03.19.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Parody of Magritte, in French: This is not a writer, with pic of Greg Kemble

If someone were to tell me, “I’m a writer,” and I were to say, “Cool! What do you write?” and he were to say, “Well, I don’t, really,” I’d have grounds to be suspicious of his claim.

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À Propos

Greg in front of a wall sculpture at SFO
Mildly introverted.
Mostly harmless.

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