17 February 2019 A Major Hack An alert came from Google telling me my owner accounts for three of my seven websites had been hacked. What to do? The infestation was widespread, affecting all my websites on my hosting provider, where I later learned there was an endemic presence of…
The Thing Itself
No ideas but in things. —William Carlos Williams. Time is money, and money is losing value all the time. This anxious feeling inside—tight, rushed, urgent, driven, shallow breaths—is a symptom of timesickness. It is endemic in our age, in our capitalistic culture, in our growth economy. It is fed…
The Last Book: excerpt
from The Last Book: Further Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man ... a mashup of classic European literature and magic realism, wherein 19th-century hero Felix Krull meets an avatar of lost Lemuria in a romantic romp to dystopia and beyond... Prefatory Confession “It is not without a certain meager trepidation…
State of the Art
During the All-Star Game, the commercial voices of the network ring out crass but unapologetic, the bigbuck advertisers cheesy as ever. Like the used carlot hucksters of the fifties, only updated now with suitable modern snark… and then it glissades out like an auctioneer with an android voice implant, too…