The wonderful people at Octopus Books are going to put out my first book. Look out in fall 2010 for the book, probably called Where We Think It Should Go. It's raining in Oakland. It's practically winter. It's practically the end of the decade. Welcome new decade! Love you already.

GET YOU

My e-chap Get You is now available at Duration Press.

Halving Money for My Half-Birthday

I'm forty and a half.
With a thirteen-year old's
hair telling me I'm not
forty and a half.
Half fifty-five.
Half fifty-six
minus a half.

That's a treasure of a photo (of treasures) from my trip.

I missed the fact that Rabbit Light Movies #7 went up a while ago! I was too afraid to watch the video of myself reading and avoided it. But here you go, friends.

Rabbit Light Movies--Episode #7

John Keene & Christopher Stackhouse, Juliana Leslie,
Johannes Goransson,

Sasha Steensen, Michael Rerick, Claire Becker, Anthony Hawley,
Mary Jo Bang,

K. Silem Mohammed, and Matthea Harvey.

Rabbit Light Movies Link

In a related note, Hasbro company is really stupid to attack Scrabulous. They're only making Scrabble more popular. Scrabble is the only trademarked board game with such a high level of popularity, according to the book Word Freak. It can't last! I personally have travel scrabble and a Braille version from the fifties or sixties. So how is my playing Scrabulous hurting Hasbro?

Copyright is stupid. Publishers also make is a lot harder than necessary for blind users to download the e-text of books, so they can be translated into Braille. I've read that people are starting to download textbooks illegally. Totally understandable. People like physical books and will never completely stop buying them. People who have enough money (or parents' money) to buy a $130 textbook will do it. I get mine from the sweet Link+ system at the library. Other people can read them on the computer screen.

By the way, I've been reading on the screen lately, and I have a really good suggestion: make your font way bigger and lean back in your chair. On a Mac, you just hit the Apple key with Plus.