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And we’re off!

Three random thoughts on the purpose, construction and organization of this brand newish website:

1 - This site replaces a crappy but serviceable one I made with an EZ-Web Designer Kit six or seven years ago - the main purpose of which was to eliminate the chore of Xeroxing and envelope-stuffing every time I pitched a story. I put the first site together with the help of a friend who I then bugged every time I wrote something new. Now he’s busy being an attorney and raising a family, so it only made sense to create a site I could futz with myself (thanks to the backend application Expression Engine) without alienating friends who actually work for a living.

2 - All praise to Susie, Travis and Matt at Hop Studios, the best little web shop in the land. Cool folks, great techies and artful designers - ideal (and affordable) partners for creative sorts who need a web presence but need help with implementation. Hire them and support expatriate Americans who fled to Canada after Bush was elected!

3 - Re. the pictures on the right hand columns - the potted succulent plants that appear over there on the left (and again on the APPEARANCES page) were photographed at Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA; the boy and girl figures that appear on the HOME and CONTACT pages can be found at the Fairyland park in downtown Oakland.

4 - Feel free to drop me a line if you have any suggestions, comments, questions or spot any errors.

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