Soft Arts

A medley of “If I only had a brain,” “If I only had a heart,” “If I only had courage,” sung by my friend and taiji big brother, Gene Burnett.

The fact that Wordpress is now available on the iPhone has dramatically changed the way that I write.

I write code and lead a team of engineers. When I’m at a computer I’m supposed to be writing code, emails, etc. Writing a blog is necessary but also something that I don’t really have enough time to do well. As a consequence of this my writing has either been terse, or sporadic, of both.

Since I set up Wordpress on my phone I’ve noticed a big shift in my writing style. I can nurse along a work in progress in my spare time, or at times like now, when I can’t really sleep.

Suddenly I have the time to focus and make these posts the way they should be, because now I can take them out and keep working on them at any time and place that I have a few minutes of downtime.

I am currently working on about 4 posts, one of which is quite long. Wordpress on my iPhone has made me a much more prolific and deliberate writer. I suggest checking it out if you haven’t already.

“The picture of Marilyn Monroe flutters across the room, steaming. Shaped like me, shaped like my ass”

After 20 years, I have found the late, great, Steven Jesse Bernstein’s spoken word piece Come Out Tonight on Youtube.

Bernstein was a notable poet in the Seattle area in the late 80’s. He was also batshit crazy and totally awesome.

I was introduced to his Berserker series by Larry Niven’s short story, ‘A Teardrop Falls’.

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