...so i should say something about new orleans. my heart is twisted up, knowing that that sickly gulf oil-chemical brew is bubbling up on everyone's pretty old town, and that it's 95 in the shade, steamy as usual, more than i can even bear thinking about. my heart goes out to you...the bon temps just won't roulez like they used to...& have lost the yen to jump on the first southbound 'city' that rolls through...though the cooler air is beginning to show up...

-have a new title over my squares now, i don't come up as high on google 'mobroll' and 'moblog' listings, but have more integrity, since i was never 'mob' -ile in the first place. i'm just into squares...

i'm doing music with my classes: music, globalization, communes, and the new family. some of this is going on the weblogs...the poetry is in a bit of a funk. i'm just too busy. have some good pictures from here & there though...will provide, shortly. chao-

-i'm embarrassed to find out that "moblog" and "mobroll" really refer to weblogs made when one is on the move...when one carries a camera around, sends feeds into the blog, etc....i should have known. mob=moving. well i'm kind of a mobster myself, but i have to admit, i didn't take any of these pictures while moving. i'm just making blocks of cool pictures. by the way though i'm collecting a big one here, along with some of my favorite others, including joi ito's - my inspiration. i'll keep doing it...but maybe i'll make another name. -adios!

...went for a vacation in sunny new mexico, and i'd tell you all about it, but i don't have to, since my daughter did a pretty good job. go to the main page and scroll down to see the pictures, and placement at least on my computer shows her looking at us. thanks! i couldn't have done it myself, since carrying & using a camera is one of those things you can't do while holding a back-arching, finger-chewing baby. had a good time with the family, many of whom can be seen and connected to on the new mobroll...

it's back to work in steamy carbondale...it's a new term. my wife is on sabbatical, so she holds the baby most of the time....i'm learning more about haiku, which in its pure form sends you into careful study of nature and environment, which is a good respite from academia.

i want to say, i love my families dearly, both original family & present family, i owe it all to them, & as jh the big-muddy-steamboat-man says, i'm still here...

nice picture!

...so i renamed the blog, which reflects the fact that it's kind of a creative home now, a kind of lighthouse where i can come back to after a while out there...but it also reflects a couple of new developments on the blog scene...first, that there is now a mobroll down there in the template, and this will be developed after i get a few more squares, which i'm working on. and there will be more of these mobrolls, for example, on my work blog.

i got this idea from joi ito, who i've mentioned before; mentioning him in my blog actually inspired me to do what i said i'd like to do. but while looking around at his friends one day, i stumbled across this jurvetson fellow, who seems to be into flickr's interestingness algorithms (i guess they'd use that term loosely) which you can see connected off of this hollywood squares page.

now i'd like to think of myself as a celebrity too, standing on a corner, with my eyes open, wanting to make squares, but not always having a camera with me...

and, it's a different corner, i guess.

more later...