A very cute story about saving face with a clever cover letter. Found on a GREAT (and very nerdy) blog, Letters of Note.

In 1989, at the end of a disastrous telephone interview in which he alluded to playing pirated versions of their games, Tim Schafer was advised by David Fox to send in his resume and a covering letter relating to the role of Assistant Programmer/Designer at LucasArts (at the time still named Lucasfilm). Schafer, in an effort to win Fox over after such a bad first impression, decided to write his covering letter in the form of a text adventure game, a copy of which can be seen below. Seemingly on the strength of said letter, just weeks later Schafer received a job offer and subsequently went on to write for - and program - two of the greatest games ever released: The Secret of Monkey Island and its sequel.

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The following videos are all that is recorded online via YouTube of Elizabeth Tashjian. Elizabeth was a frequent guest on night shows like Johnny Carson and David Letterman. She was, what I consider, an outsider artist and founder of the first museum dedicated to nuts in the world. Admission to her museum, in its humble beginnings, was free (given you brought a nut to donate to the collection).

I find her passion so authentic and enthusiam so genuine. The overwhelming joy she experiences from nuts is contageous. A documentary film, and at least one book, have been made about her life. Had it not been for a prominant art historian, her rare and unique collection of nuts would have been lost forever once she lost control of her estate in her old age (a tragedy mentioned many times in biographies made about her).

Many of these documentaries and biographies wonder and argue about Elizabeths relationship with the media. While some suggest she was tokenized as an eccentric crazy woman, I find her to be much smarter than that. I think she used television subversively, fully knowing why she was there, to share her passion in life with as many people as possible.

To my surprise, Wikipedia had no entry whatsoever about Elizabeth Tashjian. If you have any great facts, lore, or photos of Elizabeth Tashjian, feel free to leave me a comment! I will do my best to incorporate them in my first Wikipedia article I've ever written.







To read more about Elizabeth you can follow these links:

• The New Yorker - "The Nut Lady Returns"


• "In a Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian" -- full-length documentary premiered April 2004.


• Re-Staging the Nut Museum - 2004 exhibit

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I recently Stumbled across this rare Jan Tschichold book on ffffound.com.

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Check out Rubykhan’s Flickr page. She has made some really sweet pixel-inspired cross-stitch pieces that are pretty mind blowing!

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