Been running a little ragged. Working seven nights a week again, and Llam gave us an assignment to create a non-alphabetic form of communication. That sounds simple, but what it means in practical terms is that all of us in the ArtGroup, with Seima and Llam himself pitching in, have been creating hundreda of pictures from simple drawings that I make. We have a large chunk of them on line over at Webshots - which is truly a phlog site. If you'd like to visit, we have as of today over three hundred pictures online:

http://community.webshots.com/user/thatgemini

- okay, cool, it lit up and turned blue; the software here recognizes a URL and provides links.

It's good to be able to go off by myself for a bit and piss and moan and tell little stories of the day. Any pissing and moaning I might do today would be about MySpace, which is getting more and more treacherous. You write an e-mail - it disappears. Post a blog - never gets there, it vaporizes. Sending Tom or anyone else gets a robot response which does not answer direct questions. I read a post here at blogger by some young woman whose Space at MySpace just disappeared one day - a year and a half of blogs, pictures, links with MySpace friends - you can make them there - all gone. She got zilch for a response. She'd said she had no porn-pictures, no abusive or racist language in her blogs, just - POOF! And repeated e-mails did nothing.

As far as Webshots, I started off with the free service and upgraded to premium a few days ago. Their software for downloading pictures from your computer to their/your site is a little quirky, and for my taste slow; but it does the job. I think that eventually we'll leave MySpace, not today, not tomorrow or next week, but one thing is definitely certain. As far as the genuine friends whom we've made there, when we do go they'll have plenty of notice and will be asked to trade personal e-mail addresses.

I see that I am rambling about everything and nothing which is my style. I shall close this and go visit Stro Moon Daglo's blog, then maybe Michael Archontas. Ciao.