Psst.

March 27, 2008

Hey.

It’s been a while since I’ve been around these parts. After writing and building Web sites and stuff for other people all day (and, on more than one occasion, late into the night), maintaining this site began to seem like a bit of a busman’s holiday. But, more than that, I felt like I just didn’t have that much to say via this forum.

That’s kind of changed, though. I think I’ve caught a second wind. I recently took a great trip overseas, I’ve been taking some nice pictures, and … well hell, spring is here. There’s nothing better than springtime to get the juices flowing.

So, all that is a longwinded way of saying I hope to be back here again real soon. Hopefully you will be, too.

Jim Harrison

January 25, 2007

From today’s New York Times profile of author Jim Harrison comes this gem:

“Writers go out to Hollywood for the same reason stockbrokers go into business, and that’s greed,” Mr. Harrison said, adding, “Even when they’re cheating you, they’re cheating you at a level that’s unheard of in academe, say. But I finally quit because I didn’t want to die in that suckhole.”

That’s my favorite quote of the day. The full text is available here.

There’s Something Wrong with This Picture

January 15, 2007

This is a picture of a daffodil I took yesterday in Atlanta. It’s a fairly typical floral shot, and, overall, I am fairly pleased with it. There is one thing about it, however, that I find troubling: It was taken in the middle of January. Daffodils aren’t supposed to bloom here until March. Read Post »

Survived 2006. Hope you did, too.

January 10, 2007


As I entered 2007, I felt like I was crossing the finish line of a particularly grueling race. This past year was a challenging one, and I was happy to be able to hit the reset button on the first of January.

So, ten days belatedly, here’s to 2007. Now it’s back to business. Onward and upward.

To those of you who’ve attempted to contact me via this site during the past few weeks, my apologies. I have fallen behind on e-mail (again), and now I’m slowly digging my way back out of the hole. I promise to respond to you ASAP.

CJR on Time’s Person of the Year, You

December 19, 2006

The Columbia Journalism Review has a good analysis of Time’s current “Person of the Year” cover story. This is from the introduction to the CJR piece:

As we’ve all seen by now, the editors of Time magazine revealed that the Person of the Year is “You.” Well, not of all of you — just those of you who have added content to the Internet. It is ironic and sad that “You” has been awarded this distinction for “founding and framing the new digital democracy web,” at a historical moment in which our democracy seems a little frayed. (See “Elections,” 2000, 2004; and “Domestic Spying”; and “Ghost Prisons”; and “Torture”.)

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