There is a dusting of snow on the ground now, which makes the light behave in a way it only does in winter. At certain times of day it seems the light comes from nowhere, that it just is some integral component of the air.
It is cold, but cold feels different to me lately. I may have crossed some invisible biological boundary. I might be time for me to admit the possibility that I am no longer (physiologically speaking) a desert rat.
Come January, I will start my 5th year in Iowa. I can't say I ever would have chosen this place off a map and decided to live here, but I'm used to it now. There is even something about the deep freeze of winter that I like. I suppose it reminds me of the summers in Arizona. If you venture forth unprepared, you really could die out there.
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Status Update
It would seem lately all I'm doing on this blog is announcing the creation of other blogs, and also that I am currently more interested in writing fake blogs than real ones. So I'm sure you'll be not that surprised to hear vitzy.com has already undergone another transformation. Don't worry -- you can still find the gerbil over here.
But my latest project involves a more cohesive fake blogging effort. My plan is to write a novel-length story via the blogs of the characters. The working title is Another Year or Two and it is set in the fictional town of Turnpost, which was also the setting of a novel I finished earlier this year, called East of Turnpost. Some of the characters overlap, but it is by no means necessary to have read my earlier novel to follow the story the blog will tell (which is good, because East of Turnpost is neither published, nor ready to be published).
So, this is an experiment! It's my serial-novel-meets-modern-media-frankensteinian-creation. It's still in Beta as far as both the design and my fine-tuning of the CMS that I chose to build it on, so bear with me as I iron out the kinks. Eventually I hope to expose it to a wider audience, but now for we're in sneak preview mode.
Check it out and if you're so inclined, read. :)
But my latest project involves a more cohesive fake blogging effort. My plan is to write a novel-length story via the blogs of the characters. The working title is Another Year or Two and it is set in the fictional town of Turnpost, which was also the setting of a novel I finished earlier this year, called East of Turnpost. Some of the characters overlap, but it is by no means necessary to have read my earlier novel to follow the story the blog will tell (which is good, because East of Turnpost is neither published, nor ready to be published).
So, this is an experiment! It's my serial-novel-meets-modern-media-frankensteinian-creation. It's still in Beta as far as both the design and my fine-tuning of the CMS that I chose to build it on, so bear with me as I iron out the kinks. Eventually I hope to expose it to a wider audience, but now for we're in sneak preview mode.
Check it out and if you're so inclined, read. :)
Friday, September 23, 2011
Is THIS Blog Dead?
Ahem. Well. That's another question entirely. I have at least redesigned it. That's something isn't it?
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