Have y'all heard about the Orphan Works Act

Essentially it would do away with the automatic copyright that one has just by creating a work and would require the artist/creator to pay money to register all visual works with private companies.

There is a petition found on the above link.

So here's my attempt at settling the accounts...with no regard for time or space or memory ( Read more... )

For my Tucson friends/associates/well wishers:

This is to let you know that I'm jetting on out of here on October 12th - that is two weeks from tomorrow. And this isn't a probably or most likely sort of thing - I've got the ticket kids, I'm gone ( Read more... )

I'm home...


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So at 3:30 I get a phone call that due to weather in NYC my flight is canceled, oh, awesome, 8.5 hour warning ( Read more... )

Clearly, I should have taken heed of the warning signs.

The leggings. At least I should have been worried about the leggings. I suppose the 80s have been 'coming back' for a while but lately it's just seemed like total colonialization ( Read more... )

I should be in bed, but I can't sleep. Anyways, a perk of having a wordpress blog is that it informs you of the search terms that people used to find your site. Here's a list of some of the more disturbing/funny/interesting ones so far ( Read more... )

Okay folks, I could use, and would much appreciate, your help if your willing ( Read more... )

Your future is so bright...


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In regimented intervals, the landscape etched itself in the window glass. She sat in the train seat, sunk back in plush red. A spotty man, with the spectacles of an architect, wandered in awkward diagnosis of the train car. Sunlight lay mangled in her eyelashes. The train inched over a green caked ridge and the cars writhed like a ( Read more... )