I guess what I was trying to say about the lyric and first person — and Jenn (Sean?) really touched on this — has to do with a certain discomfort on my part in assuming the authority involved. If I am writing I then you the reader must read about I and I and I and you must be interested by I and I and I and what I have to say is I. Blogging, though, is good practice for this sort of thing. And the way that I is not always I, a sliding away of authority, or an eliding of my role in the creation. And certainly, writing about something like Oakland, brings up questions of my right to write about Oakland, something many of us struggle through. Calls into question my authority, my author-ity, my very nature as an author.

Projects are drifting along. I've set aside (for the now) the global warming project. Maybe it's completed; maybe it needs some time; maybe it's ready for others to read; I don't know. I'm continuing to write "Pythia says," my little prophesy poems (talk about taking on a persona). I need to work on my site redesign, and the concomitant drumming up of work I'd like to publish.