Thursday, December 01, 2005

Some changes...

Hey, this is just a short post to say that I am indeed alive and have relocated to Jacksonville, Florida. Also, you may have noticed that there are a bunch more older posts in my archives; well, I found a CD with a bunch of my old website updates on it, so I posted them here. Why? I'm not sure.... Norman Mailer once wrote something to the effect that when a man goes back and reads stuff he wrote a long time ago, he becomes closer to that man, even if he is now an entirely different sort of man than he was then. I think that's got something to do with it, if that makes any sense whatsoever.

Anyway, most of the old stuff was a sort of link-digest, and all the links are now dead. However, reading those old posts I realized that I was, overall, pretty happy back then. I'm hoping to remember how I managed that.

Also, the June 5 entry right below this one is incomplete. Suffice it to say that I gave away my breakfast to a homeless woman I saw regularly in Milwaukee. The breakfast was a melon salad from Pick 'n' Save. She then asked me for money for bus fare, which I didn't have. After that, she walked off and, at the very limits of my peripheral vision, I watched her throw my breakfast away. Damn it all to hell, I was hungry, too.

Further also, at some point in the past I got stupid and self-important and decided to start a second, secret blog for my poetry. Because I was feeling particularly pretentious, I called it "A Glass Lunch." (Please, take a second to marvel at my oblique W.S. Burroughs allusion...okay, that's enough.) Of the two poems currently there, one was written the day it was posted, while "Lunar Maria" was written about 10 years ago. I have more, and I'm hoping to write some new ones, since writing poetry is fun and keeps me out of trouble.

Anyway, I'm going to try to write here more often, as well. There have been quite a few changes in my life, and I'm thinking of trying to make sense of them here.

Take care.