As an e-version of "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" I'll recommend something:
Last September I made several mentions of John Vanderslice. Recently, (<-- perhaps someone from "Us" can tell me if that comma is necessary or not*) he posted a remix of one of my favorite tracks from Pixel Revolt, Exodus Damage (Alias Remix). The term refers to the nastiness a bullet creates as it leaves a target.
Upcoming...a return to microfiction. It's funny how being busy keeps you away from Dylan Thomas, Cormac McCarthy et al, and the creative impulse takes a little break as you go about your life. This will be an attempt to make up for the obvious loss of quantity in my internet hovel with (hopefully) increased quality. Then we'll all be a little bit happier.
And finally, I think myspace.com is terrible. Even the very best pages tend to be nothing more than jejune design abortions. At worst...who has the words?*** To "loosely" quote someone from Startup School 2006, "What do you expect? It is such a popular site because all of the pages look just like what the users are accustomed to...messy high schooler's bedrooms." It is a convenient confluence of media, but who can look at it for very long?
*the staff at "Us" tends to be a little bit more aware of these sorts of grammatical conventions that have, sadly***, started to slip from me since I somehow managed to peak in my awareness of such matters about 10 years ago.
**This is not a claim that I'm doing any better. I'll gladly succumb to such criticism of this site and make changes when 60% of internet users log onto this page an average of 20 minutes per day. That is a promise.
***my own grammatical degredation notwithstanding, I believe I used all of the commas correctly here, however, please feel free to refer to "*" now, too.
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