great swath of emptiness

on the web today. short posts, posts of poems, travelling posts, posts of the undead. as if the social center is absent (quiet - where empty reads "background noise" - heartbeat heard through ears, neighbors through walls, the bus outside, glow of a computer monitor left on or hum of fridge - spider webs and no spider) and we are all gone to or over the edge for awhile to poke around quietly, don personas, shop a bit, and then head home.

bags empty or full? who's got receipts?

i will be giving a reading this saturday evening as part of July's Artifact. The event is "free to the public" (if hearing an hour plus of readings by Sean MacInnes, Melissa Benham and myself is truly "free of cost" - but dont worry, there's liquor and we take breaks and sometimes tell jokes too - not all organic whole grain post- grad school post-langopo ver.2005 ) and there is liqour and breaks and a party afterwards (and in between - it is my hope that i won't feel compelled to responsibly ask/remind/nag Melissa to start up the reading after the second reader again, when the "intermission" party always threatens to take over, and if there's no third reading and no one remembers, hey, its a party, yall. yet i am a sworn protector and guardian of art - witness my flaming hair.

Well, wavy blonde. The reading is in the great city of San Francisco and you can find all kinds of info about it on Melissa's Artifact series blog. Don't you want to be on such an attractively designed bill? I understand, really. I was waiting for it to be my turn again. Insider tip : the flyer design is influenced by two of Melissa's "favorite directors". Any guesses? Not the guy who did the John Cussack films, evidently (my hopeful guess before seieng it). Am I supposed to say "Brakhage" - ain't gonna. Don't know, don't know. LA folk?

Is the jury in on non-personal blogs? They take a diff. course, to be sure, and arise quicker than those wishing to make expensive/time consuming web sites. And those of you who are like "expensive? time-consuming? what the f**k? - shame on yrselves. Come over here right now and I have SEVERAL web sites for you to build/teach-how-to-build for/to me and my friends.

Good day to you all and please carefully consider hitting "next blog". Last time I did I was in the world of a 21 yr old cutie who wanted to move to New Zealand and marry a Kiwi. Very Being John Malkovich. I tell myself - "go ahead, it won't hurt. maybe i will make a new friend and throw peanuts at them."

Thus continues the case of the absent center. Its all vacancy signs and doors left open with only the cleaning staff around (down the hall, inside 309, you can hear them). Want to snoop? Even the pool is unattended, and its so warm outside. Good day.