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7/11/07: step three community

i come back to this pile of posting, i take a look through stacks of old paragraphs and missing illustrations and at first glance it's all horrendous - rotten links and giant blast holes and horribly unsound CSS layouts from a long history of careless joyride design overhauls - but then there's memories and it's probably impossible for anyone else to have such specific special things, and i blow off the rotten leaves and let all the parts slide all over and fall in on each other.

i've thought about the big chore of cleaning it all up. suddenly for the first time i remembered a writer i once met at a house dinner who completed an entire novel without punctuation, probably an annoying choice but his choice nonetheless, and at the cusp of a publication offer he had to decide between sinking with his aesthetic ship or the tedious task of going back and inserting every comma and capital letter that "belonged there." i go back to betacorpo cerca september 2003 (an interesting month in my absurd life) and i just hope that all the little scraps of documentation rest in the dust curiously like old letters found in a drawer in a desk in an abandoned house.

and then i turn to the side links and realize how many great little blogs and journals and such have all disappeared and turned into "search portals," not even staying up there frozen for the perusal. so i've trimmed them out and planted some of the newer things i've been reading from in the past little while, and these things lead to other things and...

worth mentioning are...

the literary blog and DIY media guide called no media kings, insightful green commentary both on green ink and under the concrete, the zine library, articles on border struggles at delete the border, and a slew of bike-related blogs that spark the pedalust with more than just tour de france updates: the welcomingly named bike hugger, practical tips at take the lane, and the travelogs of a couple on a bike trip along the pacific coast highway

posted by jeremy @ 5:00 PM