Just a quick note to thank the few people who asked to see the final version of my MA thesis “No One Knows Everything: Harold Innis and Open Source”. I’ve added the final PDF to the page that also has the table of contents and links to an earlier draft version. here. I’d love to [...]

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hhmmmm. grumble. so, i’m stoked to have a writing job, and there are millions of other jobs out there that i’m glad i’m not doing, but i still feel grumbly about it all today. I called my first five businesses to profile this morning, and everyone was too busy to talk- which is fine, i [...]

some voices sound out of lungs like a fine oak barrell, or at the edges of notes run their hands through dry grain, or play the sinews of the face and throat as though with a heart-broken bow.

An internet friend asked me for some feedback and I went off in a long and wordy diatribe about poetry. I’ve decided to cut out the stuff directly relating to her work and to post it here for my own reference. Maybe you’ll find it interesting as well. This is the second response I’ve given [...]

Want to hear me read this post to you, baby? I went to put the water on to boil and realized that pretty much every time I enter the kitchen I burst into song. And I blame American Idol. Every time I’m alone in a tiled space I have a new need to compulsively belt [...]

I have been heaping ‘cut stuff’ from my ongoing MA thesis into this blog, some of it in public and some hovering in draft status because it’s way to messy to be really online, even in here. The ol’ thesis, thankfully, is going well. I’ve just finished going through it again from beginning to end, [...]