!) Rants aside, I am getting kind of sick of seeing right angles, either implied or blatant. The Somnolent.org tagline "squares are easy" is past true. Somewhen, someone had said something about "organic flash" which is really a nice way of saying "no fucking vector buttons or clicky-things that make it appear that the future is now zoop zoop zoop zoop zoop zoop ba-ding!" It's starting to bug me that, even if you have a whole site full of sections, each section looks like every other section, or the layout is the same but the colors change, or the colors are the same but the layout is slightly different, and it's feeling like we're all becoming Ron Popeil. And I realize this is stemming from a faulty viewpoint that we are our websites but still, a page is a page is a page is getting a little stifling.

@) I'm in an anti-design mode. No, I'm not in an anti-design mode. I'm in an under-design mode. Under-design doesn't have to be ugly or plain or boring. Film noir works because of the pause between spaces. I'm not a designer, why should I play one on tv?

#) I've been playing around with automatic writing. What? What.

Does everything on a weblog thinger have to be true or topical? Does everything on a journal have to be about the author? Does either form allow for expansion without stepping foot off of it? C'est ne pas un pipe and all but we're still going to think about the fucking pipe anyway, and besides, you're the one who brought it up. Please-Sir-can-I-have-another.

Why should I split my mind into neat little sections? I can provide an index and all, but do I need a separate page for every type of thought I'm having? And I realize this is stemming from a faulty viewpoint that we are our websites but still, a page for this and a page for that and a page for the other is getting a little stifling.

$) Ohmygods I'm still not making any money off of this. (True or False)

%) I am in love with the hyperlink. I know this now. I am in love with a word or phrase being the gateway or jumping-off point to another mode of thinking or bit of information and it doesn't look at all futuristic and zoop zoop zoop zoop zoop no it just sits there like a whispered morsel, an aural caress, a fist in the eye. It should be used lovingly. Geometry is static and governed by mathematical laws, a word is fluid and keeps on the move.

^) You know what? Cyberpunk cosmology is for shit. I swear to your chosen god that at sixteen I thought I was going to grow up and be some sort of data pirate or other super-plugged-in media phantasm and I'd have custom-made irises in my eyes and I wouldn't be near-sighted anymore and watches under my skin and hell, totally new fucking skin, why not, with little plugs in my wrist or neck and heynow, I am the computer! Underground meant the flow of information that They (the capital T is for "tacky conspiracy") didn't want you to have, heynow, and you know what? They're trading pr0n and badly-written articles with poorly-researched information. What a letdown.

Just because we're getting better at organizing and presenting information, why should I not make it challenging to get inside my head? It's a personal site, not a Sanrio catalog. You want corporate sensibilities, go look up J. Crew.

&) I'm getting bored with colors. How screwed up is that? I pick a color scheme for a new site revision and think, nah, boring. I pick another one and think, eh, seen it. Globalization is screwing around with my asthetic sense. Gems and jewels used to be valuable because they were rare, considered beautiful because nothing else could produce such shimmering colors. Now I can go down to the market and see shiny stuff all over in all colors and nothing sticks a fishhook in my eye anymore.

*) Ja sicher, I admit it, number four on this list came up only because shift-4 is a dollar sign. Still, while we're on the subject, have I ever shown you my Amazon wishlist? No, and I never will.

() Did we start a writing style or a writing exercise with this weblog thing? Is it a book or a guide to writing books? Is it a location or a map? Is it an elevator? Is it an act of sati? Is it an accessory? Is it a police action? Is it a pipe?