My two primary addresses have been down for the count for over twelve hours—thanks for that, Dreamhost!—so if you’re trying to reach me, for now please IM if you know it or send me a message via my Facebook profile or my Flickr profile.
Update: Email working now, hurrah! While I was waiting for things to get fixed, I started thinking how funny it is that I started blogging eight years ago because it was easier than emailing my friends links all the time, and yet I’ve spent so much of this year emailing my friends links instead of posting on my blog because writing a personal blog feels, well, too personal sometimes—even when all I’m doing is sharing silly things like Helen Mirren eating a cheeseburger.
I feel like even as it expands, the web feels smaller and smaller, and not always in the kindest of ways. Shit, do you remember webrings? We used to link to random people we’d never emailed with or knew anything about, not to sell more Google ads or up our Pagerank or anything else other than the pleasure of nebulous shared belonging to one group or another. All of our pages linked to one another, forming chains of Scully fans, broccoli lovers, Nascar enthusiasts. It’s like we were all hugging the web, you know?