I’ll be doing a bit of writing here over the next days, but it’s not ready yet, and I want to push that layout-breaking photo off the front page. (The monitor-breaking photo at top left of the front page stays. Sorry.)

Item: I’m sitting in the Barstow [$CHAIN COFFEE SHOP] at the moment uploading a couple weeks’ worth of photos to the Coyote Crossing Flickr Site, so feel free to take a look.

Item: Among the photos are a couple old ones of Zeke hiking in the Sierra Nevada with my pal Sharon. Sharon’s got some scary health issues these days, and while I don’t believe sending energy does much good, Sharon does, so please do, and now you know what she looks like for purposes of White Light Visualization.

Item: I and several other more talented writers will be reading Monday, October 27 at 6:30 p.m. at the Palm Springs Public Library at a reading to mark the second issue of Phantom Seed. I hope some of you can make it.

Item: I’ll be heading to New Mexico next week for a few days. I may find items of interest along the way to photograph or proseograph. If not, please remember that people other than me can start threads in the Coyote Den.

Item: I was out of touch for a while this summer and I’m wondering, was there a meeting of the progosphere I missed at which it was determined this shit was in any way acceptable? I mean, it’s so easy to get the Lysistrata thing right. You just don’t treat sex as a commodity nubile women ration out to lucky slavering dudes.

Some Democrats deserve to lose.