rework to 2000's-ish style site

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+title: Notes in the margin
+date: 2026-08-22
+description: A quick look at the two asides this site knows how to make.
+---
+
+Most of what I write should just be the thing itself. Sometimes a thought doesn't belong in the sentence, though, it belongs next to it. :margin-note[(like this — a margin note sits beside the column on a wide screen, and drops under the paragraph on a small one)] That's what margin notes are for. Parentheticals you can actually skip.
+
+Notices are the opposite. They interrupt on purpose.
+
+::notice
+**A note you shouldn't skip.** Use a notice when the aside *is* the point for a minute. It stays in the column, navy, hard to miss.
+::
+
+And if it needs to break the column entirely:
+
+::notice{bleed}
+**Full-bleed.** Same idea, but it runs edge to edge. Save it for the one time in a piece you actually want to shout.
+::
+
+That's the whole vocabulary. Margin for a mutter. Band for a point. Everything else is just the writing.
+
+> A blockquote gets the little pointing hand in the left margin. Use it when you're quoting someone, or when you want a line to feel pointed at.