wine, women and smoke is a nifty little animation, made more pleasurable as one realizes it’s all back-drawn… they are all good, though pickle may be my other favoritist.
I’m having a lazy slow morning, this last day of 2002. I’m surfing. I realize I don’t surf anymore. I used to. I used to get up in the morning, pick a blog-starting point, and go… noting sites as I went for the gleanings newsletter.
But writing the book slowly weaned me off random wanders, and forced me to do only directed searching– research. Soon the only odd sites I’d find were mailed to me (thank god for friends, family and readers– keep me sane!).
And now, I’m wandering again, following links, running searches and my curiosity is peaked… wondering what will become of gleanings. I keep thinking I should resurrect it. But do I want to? When I started it, there were only a handful of blogs pointing this way and that– now there are thousands.
Maybe essays? Or links with mini-essays? Or maybe nothing. Maybe it’s time to retire the old newsletter, and go to digests of the blog. Or maybe it’s time to stop blogging? it’s not like I don’t have enough ways to communicate, via B&A, AIfIA, mailing lists and so on…
I wonder what 2003 will be like, I wonder what role I’ll play… what will make me happy…