Once again, I've spent most of a day updating and fiddling with my various web presences. You may notice I've dropped a couple of things out of this blog's sidebar, and that the sidebars of Dowsing have grown exponentially, or at least geometrically. You do the math. One blog, the long-neglected Perfidy Report, has disappeared entirely. This is both a hopeful thing and a necessity. Perfidy Report was a blog of fear and outrage at what the Bush administration was perpetrating on the Constitution. I hope we've seen the last of his ilk for a while, and that he lives out his lame-duckness without quacking too much, instead of crapping up things even more. It doesn't seem likely, given his latest behavior, but I live in hope it's not too big a mess to be cleaned up by a half-way honest agent of change and his minions (at least one of whom I hope will be a certain woman). The necessity part is just that I can fit it into the "real me" part of my life now, so why not?
So, Perfidy Report: Pfffft! I have kept some of the sidebar stuff from it, but they've either migrated to Dowsing, or been consolidated into other already-existing sidebar items. And all of the sidebar stuff across both remaining blogs has gotten a thorough housecleaning. Dowsing also got a little bit of a design redo: I went with three columns instead of two, to accommodate all my interests and give myself room for what's going to be a lengthy book list. This is the first time since I've started blogging that I've had a blog that truly reflects my personality, instead of just my art, my current obsessions or my business. Dowsing feels entirely different to me than any other blog I've been writing, including the first one I started.
This means some of the topics I've been writing about here will also migrate to Dowsing. I'll leave the categories, intact so you can find earlier posts, but I'll probably confine my blogging about science, current affairs, feminism, grief studies, personal strangeness, and "Life, the Universe and Everything" to Dowsing, and the other topics only as they relate somehow to books, book arts, and writing. Needless to say, there will probably be some cross-posting, but I aim to keep that to a minimum.
Two big topics I'm moving over to Dowsing are "The City" and travel. Again, not entirely, but for the most part. The Barcelona posts will remain here, but all future travelogues will be at Dowsing unless there are book arts elements. I love writing about New York and its inhabitants and visitors, and it offers extremely fertile ground for writing topics. Ditto with travel. I'm glad to have a place where I can pull out the stops on both topics. Henceforth, this blog will mostly deal with books, book arts, doing art, and writing.
Oh, and the website got a new set of links, and some news updates, too.
Of course, you know what having a new blog means, don't you? I get to make new icons! Bwahahahaha!
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