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8/12/03: Postponing a bit

So after careful consideration, I decided to postpone the Great Relocation until around the first week of October. The plan for the past few months has been to haul ass through a morning job, a night job, and a project or two for friends, then add on sorting out my things, tossing them out, and blowing out of the windy city like a thief. The closer I get though, the more I see that manic work followed by a giant culture shock might not be the wisest way to pace things. I'm dying to be back in Brazil right now, but a couple of weeks spent relaxed among familiar surroundings makes a dull but good sense. I'm a resilient kid, for sure, but one has to mind their psychological health a little too. And September really is a rare and beautiful month to be a Midwesterner, an ideal way to leave it.

Noticing changes to la beta corpo lately? I'm switching out computers, storming the Internet quite a bit, and trying to make this place a more coherent read. I'm also seeing it more as a way to document what will be some really pivotal months for me. Plus, I predict that things are going to get a bit more journal-y here once I'm blogging through Internet cafes with less interest in long surfs and more to report back home. Hopefully this will make the transition a little more consistent. And I love organising around this bullet motif •••

Lastly, may I subtly point out that those comment boxes are back?

Elsewhere...

•Argentina's Museum of National Debt [via blogilization].

•Free wi-fi as the only viable business model (the significant overhead is is the cost of charging people).

•The Pink Bloque bring the party to the protest. See also this Washing Post profile.

•Fierce Flora is an online journal, forum, and an exhaustive collection of links, and succinct e-mail interviews used to counter the underrepresentation of women in the art world including this brief but chalk-full interview with the Guerilla Girls. See also, Pixelsurgeon's guide to women in design.

•Sexarina (and the city) - dreamilke street photos from NYC.

•Anonymous portraits.

•Ambiguously Gay Duo clips are available for download.

•Photos of people's reaction to the photographer's car backfiring is unbelievably inventive (but you won't notice 'til after many minutes of painful laughter) [via excitementmachine.]

And an add on...

Speaking of changing weblogs, Chrisafer's new domain
is looking quite spiffy.

posted by jeremy @ 10:56 PM