Dave's Contribution "Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature. I am glad, in a word, that you have overcome the danger of landing in one of those professions, and are solitary and courageous, somewhere in a rugged reality. May the coming year support and strengthen you in that." -Rilke, Letters Others have said it best. Dillusions of Grandeure I liken this site to a small and initial portion of fruit newly sprouted from a tree of efforts raised over 2 years. and whether or not you think that metaphor was 1) accurate and/or B) elegant...i believe it was both. what we have so far is still what I can only describe as skeletal at best....and is only going to increase in grandeure over time. so without further hindrance I will allow you to move onto sean's column...likely not as elegant as mine, but probably more crammed full of hilarious wit and spontaneity. good day sirs and madams. It's Never Really Done Well, I finally managed to get a website up acceptable enough to actually send people to. For that, i'm only a smidgen proud. Because, in all actuality, it's not really close to being done. I still have to prepare the catalog and the store, probably the two most labor intensive parts, I don't really know for sure, I'm not that strong in the php realm. Anyway, I should be looking at the bright side but it's difficult to see one when you have so much other shit to do. Yes... this was created for me to complain publically, and at a grander scale than I would normally reach just crying to people I run into during the day. I'm trying to think of something positive to write about to mark this momentous half-way point. But that in itself sounds depressing. F-ck. For a second I thought about all the chicks in porn on the internet and how I'm certain their parents couldn't be proud of them now. How embarrassing. All because I said the f word, I'm much too paranoid. Now I'm wondering if this is worth anything. I should get off the computer.