New Location–writingforants.com

lil baby ain’t all grown up yet, but I need the freedom of being able to work on the design and scripting for this blog. I’ve hosted my own domain as Siteground for quite some time and just got around to buying the extra hosting slot.
There’s hardly any change at all aside from the fact [...]

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Transitioning

I’ll be leaving WordPress.com (not that it hasn’t been fun). Putting together my site at writingforants.com. It’s still in progress, but coming along. Start updating your bm’s. http://writingforants.com

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Making Rounds

Like so many, I’ve been involved in various projects, and have not had time to keep up with what’s been going on in my online network. Last night, I recorded the Mets vs. D’Backs game but fell asleep somewhere in the fifth inning. John Maine cracks me up. He pitches well, but not perfect. But [...]

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Two Drops of Glue

Glue > GLU > Gregory L. Ulmer
The first is Will Pappenheimer’s image taken from the preface to Glue’s Electronic Monuments (2005).

The second is from Joel Weishaus’s interview with Glue that appeard in Postmodern Culture in 1998. I was reading it this morning and struck by how current and helpful it is. I could work [...]

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Another Reason Staten Island is Going to Rock

Ok, let’s face it. Staten Island isn’t really New York. Nevermind New York City. It’s not really even New York state.
Here’s a satellite image of the New York area. I love looking at the natural terrain.

Here’s a closer image. In this picture, I give you a sense of where things are.

If you look right to [...]

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Portishead

Thought I’d share this. Portishead’s new album is coming out April 29. Here’re some words from John Pareles.
This clip is from their 1994 album Dummy. Portishead, Massive Attack, P.J. Harvey, Nick Cave. This is what’s on the ipod now.
The following song is “Roads.” Enjoy. Take a moment. Relax.
Ohh, can’t anybody see
We’ve got a war to [...]

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Short Holiday

We’re going to be away for a few days in the Hamptons. T & I are celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary, so we’re going to chill. When we got married 15 years ago we were just college kids at Florida State University.
We decided not to elope, exactly, but we went to [...]

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Will the Mets recover from such an epic collapse?

As far as I’m concerned there was a single great year in modern American history. That year was 1969. There were some outstanding accomplishments for the country, not the least of which was our landing on the moon. One might have to toss in a few other achievements. Woodstock comes to mind. So does the [...]

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