thursday is rant day!

My iPod™ arrived a whole day early! *yay*

Alas, it appears to be either retarded, or perhaps it simply has a stutter. well, not the iPod™ itself, but the engraving. Yes, they fucked it up, laughably. I filled out the form while ordering it online, but apparently the letters didn't come through. So said the man who called me yesterday to ask what I wanted it to say. i carefully spelled out "e l e c t r o f o r k" for him, and said I would like spaces in between all the letters. He read the letters back, and said, "with spaces between the letters?" Yes. Perfect. But how did it look when it arrived? Well, I did try to take a picture, but those damn things are so mirrr-like that it was impossible to get my elph™ to focus. The free engraving looks like this:

ele ctr ofork

nice. thanks!
i was so disappointed. :(
kevin sorta liked it. he said it it will probably grow on me, and in a way I guess it has begun to. It is yet another sign of the times, I suppose. Customer Service™!® We're doing it all for YOU!®

::grumble:: I should have ordered directly from Apple™.

jack!

this is JACK!

In other news, I am working on some sweet 3-color designs to be screen printed and sold for a profit! I think there will be two 9" x 12" and four 5" x 7", to be sold in sets. With any luck, they will all be as cute as jack here. (who has been croppedin this jpg.)

lost my dreams upon waking

a view from our rooftop

This photo is from a few years ago, but the view is much the same now as then. The water looks so far away. This is looking out towards Jersey (who knew New Jersey could look so beautiful?). I found this while going through a bunch of those little plastic photo-albums that they give away free with each roll developed.

I've been feeling the need to edit lately; consolidation and removal. I have too much stuff. We've been in this apartment for over 5 years now, and that's the longest I've ever stayed in one place since I lived with my family. The feeling of being weighed down by all of the accumulation hits especially hard on the brink of spring, season of rebirth. I feel in need of a rebirth this year- been feeling the need creeping up for awhile now.
We'll see where it leads.

(But then, I guess that's up tp me)

(insert witty title)

Well, here's something I've never said before: I am happy about taxes this year! Yes, strange, isn't it? It's almost as if someone were typing in a different language, or even an unknown alphabet. It's true, though. I am not getting taken to the proverbial cleaners this year. *yay*

More bromidic news: it rained today, and leaked in our apartment! on our heads while we ate dinner!
That is all. Wow, I am gonna be a real topliner at this blog thing; I can tell already.


ps- "blog" sounds lik a name for some sort of benign but unsightly tumor. (...i suppose that isn't too far from the truth, though. a sort of digital goiter.)

a sunday evening

kevo, trey and i at the jackalope, sxsw

I recently read an article on Salon about "celebrity bloggers," some of whose blogs I had seen, some not. It was an interesting article with some good (and horrifying) links. It isn't actually relevant here, other than it got me thinking about the form anew. I have gone back and forth in my feelings about this odd form of publishing for a few years. Maybe in the process of having my own I will arrive at some conclusion. I do not guess that among these entries will be many actual revelations however; its title comes from a bit I wrote last year, a portion of which is:

"In the darkening chill of late winter
In the empire city she calls home
she knows it will be worth
the inconvenience
of air travel, exchange rates and layovers,
of cold water rooms, and

the untidy revelations
that sometimes accompany
a soul in transit-
and often anticipate
the falling of empires."


At some later date I hope to incorporate this into the electrofork home page. It seems it may be a good idea to have the option of going backwards through time rather than ever overwriting that ol' index.html.

In other news, we returned late wednesday night from a trip down to Austin, TX for Flatstock amid the madness of SXSW. What fun- I 'd like to go earlier next year to be there for the entire festival, though. The weather was brilliant; we sat outside in bare feet, drinking our coffee and smoking cigarettes. It was great to see Trey also, as it had been over two years since last he was in New York. It was disheartening, to say the least, to come back to the slow and persistent fade-out of winter here.