NYC --> BOS

So, I'm moving to Boston. (Well, Somerville, actually.) Moving is quite the stress-inducer, so I haven't been blogging or making things; I have new favorite activities now, like packing, stressing about cash, and generally making my friends' and family's lives miserable. These activities are so much more bomb than the dreaming and scheming that normally fill up my days.


Anyway, in order to get back to the dreaming and scheming, I've started a video/image/hypertext-y diary. I assume, of course, that no one actually cares what I do, but just in case, here's a link to the first entry. More will be coming on a semi-regular basis.



...and off I go...

à la recherche de l'espace lisse, j'ai coupé mes fils. dieu aie pitié.

del.icio.us-ly funny

a screenshot taken from my network on del.icio.us

Hatmail LOLZ

So, I tagged a pretty reputable new media artist's webpage on my del.icio.us with the following: "dross imposters hatefull shamefull NOT-very-good". And, of course, no one has yet to think of del.icio.us as some sort of social networking utility (yet), so i figured (wrongly) that no one cares what i tag and how i tag it. Right?



WRONG! I got HATEMAIL! (Passive-aggressive hatemail at that, but I don't blame her, really...)







Dear Marisa Olson,




I'm very sorry. And not sorry in a Gawker-style, half-assed, making-fun-of-you kind of sorry. I am genuinely sorry. It didn't occur to me that you would check up on who's bookmarking and tagging your work, which is dumb of me.



I don't even think your stuff is bad (although I think your Facebook project displays a poor understanding of what a "gift economy" actually is, and was the kind of project that you pursued simply because the title was just too clever to go to waste...) In reality, I think you're pretty awesome, and as someone with nothing of major note under my belt, let me say you shouldn't care what I think.



To hell with Web 2.0, to hell with the social networks. Please accept this lolcat as an apology:







Sincerely,

Harlo Holmes

"beretta" rhymes quite well with... "beretta"

Here is the preview for chapters 13-21 of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet, coming out on the 21st of this month. And I thought I was psyched about the new Harry Potter!