Blogolution

I’m taking ten days off from blogging to complete the work of the school year—exams, final grade reports, and the like. I will continue to post daily haiku, but my next real post will be June 4th.
This hiatus comes at a good time. Since the beginning of this blog, I’ve been ambivalent. [...]

One Year Later

Last week this blog circled the calendar for the first time, reaching its one-year anniversary on March 21st. That’s 295 posts (poems plus essays plus “finds”), 98 paintings and drawings, and 366 haiku (or 6,222 syllables).
It seems crass to reveal the number of visitors—because what do those figures indicate anyway?—and [...]

The First Word

When I was young, I dreamt of inventing an expression that would gain popularity and then—like an oddly marked bill—return to me from a stranger. I was naïve enough to believe that I could come up with something new and naïve enough to imagine saying, “Hey, I invented that” and to have [...]

A Note to Image Shoppers (and others)

I searched online and found an image like the one on the left. It was over a caption that read, “By the way, here’s that Indian Head Test Pattern you’re looking for (but please, see the rest of my site first).” As my blog has also become an image [...]

Bobbing in the Ocean

Derek Gordon, vice president of Technorati, reports that just over 99% of blogs receive no hits. If he isn’t pulling the statistic from his posterior, it’s a mighty sad fact—the blogosphere is a sea of bottled messages.
Technorati is tracking the sum of blogs—a figure that increased by 16% in the last two [...]

Drug Store Blogger

So, the story goes a talent agent spotted film actress Lana Turner when she ditched a typing class to have a coke at Schwab’s Drug Store in Hollywood. It was really the Top Hat Café a mile away, but the particular name of the place matters little. She [...]

My Daily Diffusion Experiment

I knew I was sick when I found myself mourning the disappearance of “feed stats” on my WordPress dashboard. I tell myself, if I want to be a read, writing something worthwhile should be my only concern. Do that, and the statistics can take care of themselves. Still, [...]