http://if.only.org blah blah blah Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:36:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en will diminish. http://if.only.org/archives/2008/02/20/to-the-west.html time. turns flesh. intangible. http://if.only.org/archives/2008/01/06/beyond.html half-rooted is no place to write from. http://if.only.org/archives/2008/01/03/for-2008.html Late Shakespeare is about theatre and theatricality. Take The Winter's Tale: expected tableaux are placed off-stage, forcing the audience to rely upon the mediation of others. Most of all, it suggests that comedy and tragedy are defined by just two things: where you put the start of Act I, and ... http://if.only.org/archives/2007/06/12/exit_pursued_by_a_bear.html in medias res. http://if.only.org/archives/2007/06/04/a-momentary-lapse-into-reason.html I missed my one best chance to meet Leslie Harpold, but this isn't about me, except to say that just as my musical tastes were formed in the early 90s and stuck there, my sense of what the web is and does at its best is gathered and knotted around ... http://if.only.org/archives/2006/12/24/remembering-leslie.html Thirst comes in the guise of hunger; hypothermia wraps itself warmly around. And though the feeling is one of desiccation, the course of action is to desaturate. http://if.only.org/archives/2006/12/08/flooded.html break-ups: from not caring if, to never, then to wondering what came after. http://if.only.org/archives/2006/10/10/following-the-band.html diaries, not unwritten but unwriting. http://if.only.org/archives/2006/09/14/journalesque.html 'like a memory, lost.' http://if.only.org/archives/2006/04/23/prog.html