I have no cat so I think I will not offend you, at least not by discussing
my cat. The only cat I was recently acquainted with died a couple of years
ago. She has been immortalized on the net, however, because my piece in the
Attic of the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That web site (curated by
Regina Celia Pinto, in Brazil) has a photo of this cat on top of a Commodore
64 box. Really this was just to show the size of the computer and its box,
given that cats provide a relatively universal size reference, if they are
not fat or scrawny. (The Attic is a space for writings/web art about one's
early computers. At the risk of heavy flaming, I will give a link, not to
my piece in particular
http://www.arteonline.arq.br/museu/attic/sotao.html )
I will also tell you, lest you fear I have excessive sympathy with cats,
that I informed my collaborator several years ago that the subject of one's
cat is not allowed in (avant garde, experimental) poetry, and that if you
try to write a Langpo-influenced poem which mentions your cat, the Poetics
Police will come in the night and destroy your manuscript and possibly the
cat as well...
Millie
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From: "Jonathan Kepple" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:25 AM
Subject: Re: [WDL] WDL blog now live
I voted in favour of the blog because I find this current interface scrappy
and overwhelming. Often I struggle to cope with the layout of the text and
that shouldn't be an issue.
The blog looks a bit more organised, however I do have a few concerns:
A large number of the regular posters here have signed-up as writers - there
appear to be more Chiefs than there are Indians. If the blog format is to
work, it will require these writers to make the effort to respond to one
another's posts, rather than simply concentrating on their own entries. If
that doesn't happen, then the effect will be similar to a roomful of
individual computers, all quietly getting on with their own tasks, as
opposed to a thriving network.
If the blog / list dilemma can be broken down to a choice between fractured
community or crappy layout, then I'll go with the latter.
My second concern is that, by its very nature, the blog will drift
off-topic. I don't ever want to read about the amusing behaviour of anyone's
cat, unless it is some kind of cyber-cat*.
* A word of warning to anyone who is considering posting a photograph of
their cat appearing to use a computer mouse: I will hunt you down.
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