Thursday, 13 Oct 2005 | 10:01 PM

Right here, right now:
Clive Barker's Hyperkind. Not because it's good, but because it happens to be lying around.

Knot Frum Hear: Slipping Through the Perception Gaps, D. Scot Miller's micro-novella.

The Global Brain Awakens: Our Next Evolutionary Leap

Futurefarmers, aesthetic exuberance

Ed Tufte, sublime information.

FMLS listings, Georgia real estate

Mike Krone at Concordia University, more sublime information.

e-mail, specifically Alex's epistles from West Africa (left, Napoleon's March from Ed Tufte's "Visual Display of Qualitative Information.")

Wednesday, 12 Oct 2005 | 11:01 PM

When we pick up our story, we find our hero sitting at a desk across from the smiley mortgage loan officer, surrounded by carefully prepared piles of financial documents in manila folders. They've been at this for two and a half hours, but forms are being printed now, papers signed. Things are being photocopied and stapled into packets. It feels like the end of something. Or the beginning.

I've been looking for houses online almost nonstop for a week. There are bargains in Atlanta. Starters for under $100K, small plantations at $150K. I imagine owning property and wince, remembering the lessons from last November: you never own stuff--stuff owns you. Kazki lives in two rooms and has never owned a couch.

2 bedrooms seems manageable. Richard tells me there is such a thing as a 1-bedroom house. Really? No, he's crazy. Maybe in Amish country. 2 bedrooms... well, that's not too much. Less roof means fewer places to spring leaks; small floor spaces are easier to cover.

Stuff owns you. This house should be small and immaculate, I decide, and mostly empty, conducive to the study of philosophy and art. After all, it is the physical instantiation of the INFLUX House. And I begin to imagine: the art/philosophy/science thinktank I've been dreaming of for years. A workshop, a Space for impractical dreams to play out.

It suddenly seems possible. It suddenly seems alive with promise. A reality. A dream. The twighlight of a new brand of creativity.

Monday, 10 Oct 2005 | 8:10 AM

This update is mostly an effort to force search engines to re-index this site and hopefully throw off the spambots with some modifications I made.

Anyhoo, check out this alert. It's a small step toward redressing the complaints of artists who donate work to various charities and end up feeling undervalued (via Noel Robbins).

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