Sad Panda

Okay, now that Brian's done with his thesis and heading off to Syracuse, and Jonathan's made up his mind to come to Irvine, and I....well, I'm not going anywhere but I did finish Fable and that's got to count for something.

Make sure to check out Jonathan's Urinal Project (there's a link from his profile). The whole bathroom ritual is an exercise in self-construction, isn't it? Questions for Boys: How close do you stand? Do you look? Do you talk? Questions for Girls: Which stall do you go to? Are you one of those foot-shufflers? Do you use the paper covers (or, as some graffiti noticed by Charles Kuralt once called them, "free cowboy hats!")??

I remember some philosophical saw about how who you really are, or maybe it's what your morals really are, is determined by what you do when nobody's watching. Dunno if I buy that, because as an inveterate navel-gazer, I'm always watching myself, and that's gotta count. But I do think that bathroom behavior is an interesting nexus of social forces, gender, sexuality, and Freudian longing....is it a particularly telling nexus?

They're called "favicons."

You know, those little icons next to the URL in your address bar...Now Meat has one. It's a little thing, but that's as much progress as I can stand today. Want your own? Here's a free favicon-makin' tool.

We've got buzz!

...thanks to pedagogical gregory and his magical blog.

Volume 2.2 chugs along. My favorite time for working on Meat seems to be when I'm supposed to be doing something else. Of course, that's just about always right now.

This issue, we have a piece by Villanueva, which is cool; next issue, there's an interview with Cindy Selfe. I'm trying to get moving on an ongoing series of short interviews about "the body at work." Cindy's the first one, and I'm lining up one with Richard the manic carpenter and Peter the LAPD detective. Brian! Find another salt janitor! I'll track down the chess master!

On salt janitors and chess masters: Brian and I, the shy 2/3 of our editorial trio, run into people who would be cool interviewees, but we always stop short of actually getting the interview.

Batman

Just because it's this sort of day.
What's new? Issue 2.2 is about 50% done, but it's been stalled by too much other work clogging up the drain. Hey! Summer doesn't start until June, so the "spring" issue still has months to gestate!