Talk To Me

ow you guys I'm actually giddy to announce that I have COMMENTS on my website again! I know people used to say "never read the comments" but back in 2006 we had a healthy comments scene on here. I could be mistaken but I feel like I met Greg Harvester in the comments on Fujichia? Specifically in the guestbook section?? Anyway after many many many years without, we are now back in business. I haven't yet installed comments on the posts because I've been very busy (see "Other News" below), but the guestbook is live, for saying hey, asking a question, saying "Oi! from [your location]", and probably for some other use case that has yet to be discovered. I'll put the link below but if you're looking for it later it's a large blue book in the castle lobby.

I quietly re-launched the guestbook 2 weeks ago and I already have a bunch of comments on there, which is so nice. Some special features of the guestbook include some randomized text inclusion buttons, so if you're lost for an adverb or adjective, you can hit "ADV" or "ADJ" and it'll inject something useable into your comment. There's also an "opening" button if you have a hard time getting started. There's about a one in 12 chance you'll get "My liege--".

It kind of feels nuts putting comments on here again-- I think I covered my ass in regards to getting hacked, and warding off robots and spiders and code injections and so forth. I got hacked in 2010 when this site was running a WordPress install, so that's in the back of my mind. Or actually like the edge of my mind, to the side. Getting hacked was pretty destabilizing-- the entity that infested the website was operating on its own logic, foreign to my own, spreading little bits of code all over the place that linked to paid advertisers and seemingly random wikipedia articles. Surrounding the links were bits of text randomly generated from a base material of bodice-ripping erotic fantasy fiction. It also installed numerous backdoors for itself in innocuous little files like these:

Sadly I didn't save any of the fanciful link text, I was too freaked at the time, running around wringing my hands saying "spiders! spiders! spiders in my house!". Kudos to the machine intelligence circa 2010 that hid its nefarious plot in files marked cash, fame, houshold, impressed, warmth, etc.. I'd be lying if I said I don't still have these vulnerabilities installed, in my brain, by society.

Anyway, if this comments structure becomes a problem I'll change it. For the time being it's worth the anxiety of being open to calls in order to see who's out there. To all regular readers-- it's OK if you want to periodically drop a postcard amount (or even a fortune cookie amount) of info on me, regarding what you're up to, what the scene's like where you are, what's for dinner, etc.. I would honestly love to hear it. Please be aware that whatever you write might get read by as many as 12 people. If you have a message for me that you would like to remain private, please send an email or use the contact page (which also now works again).

Other News

The other news is that I have a show of my quilts coming up, on December 4, at World's Fair Gallery in Providence RI, on Broadway next to the Columbus Theatre. Reception is on the 4th from 6 to 8pm. It's a split show with Anyhow Ceramics, featuring my old drinking buddy Jen Corace. I hope to see some of you there! Yes I will take pictures and post them here. Yes I will put some quilts online for purchase, but maybe not until January.

:)

Links

• Guestbook: [link]
• Contact page: [link]
• Tom sent me this video of horror-themed DJ Chainsaw where he does an incredible opening spiel with wrestling promo vibes, relevant to the topic at hand. It's funny to be villain-styled with this victim-coded "please" energy, but I deeply understand. Just another honest unstable psycho caught between channels of the pleasure matrix... TBH this is not my preferred flavor of gabber/hardcore (which is unrelated to the punk variant also called hardcore) but please watch the first minute of this because I've been working on my version of this voice and I don't have anyone to say it to. Hardcore isn't just music, it's a lifestyle... Show me who's out there... write it down... by using the comments section... [youtube]

Archives of previous posts is here, in the coat room: [coatroom]

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To write me a nice message, use the contacts page: [link]

To leave a little donation to help in the maintance of this castle, OR to simply hear the sound of a large bell, which is good luck, visit the temple area: [link]

As always, if you're bugging out or need a respite from endlessly scrolling the feed, you are welcome to hang out in the castle as long as you want. :)