"Under The Iron Bridge We Kissed"

This lyric was just being emitted from my CD player as I prepared to make the announcement that, indeed, Free Space Comix:The Blog has a "mailing list" that you can join (see right column).

I don't expect anyone to join, actually, most of the readers of my blog are either 1) non-joiners by nature (or biology) and 2) already looking at it daily so do not need to receive emails about new postings. But for those of you interested, the idea is that you would receive an email notification when there are MAJOR new postings to the blog. That is, every little burp and quibble will not bring you unwanted spam, but when longish, considered pieces, such as Carol's, Keston's, etc. (see below) appear, you'll get an email. If nobody signs up, of course, I'll quasha the idea.

Many of you receive emails from me anyway already so if that's the case there's no need to sign up. But if you don't receive emails... you'll also get update notices about arras.net, which I encourage y'all to look at.

Readers of this blog have also probably noticed that I haven't tended to use it as a daily record of my thoughts on poetry, life, politics, etc. beyond the little things that I've been calling "skids" and which are mostly pretty cryptic, however accurate as gauges of my moods and, through the miracle of refraction (some call it "influence," others "utter lack of originality"), my attitude toward poetry at the time. But rest assured, I'm not acting like Charles de Gaulle and letting silence, and the military, speak for me, I just haven't thought of anything to say that makes sense to put on a blog, and am a fairly active critic elsewhere so don't see much need to lay it on much thicker. If my blog payed me $10 every time I came up with a good idea I'd probably write for it more often.

I also read a lot less than people think I do, and don't want to make that fact glaringly obvious. My spelling is bad, half the time I'm very depressed and just want to read about tennis, the other half simply unimpressed with my ability to pontificate with significant charisma or, when that is lacking, paternal authority. I also have a new book coming out, and don't want to trash my meager reputation by saying something racist, sexist, classist, agist, new yorkist or prog-rockist on the blog, as I am wont to do in moments of stress.

But sluriously folks, I've been enjoying reading the blogs, especially Heriberto's and Brandon's (see right) -- but I read them all. Once I get the VOG (voice of god) up and running again, you'll see more BLOG (brian's laughing orange guerrilla) in the future. (Fans of David Bowie will notice the evasion of the word "gnome" in the previous acronym.)

Posted by Brian Stefans at January 24, 2003 02:08 PM