Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I sense my essays are good, I try to resubmit to another place in pulp and several of them have been variously published in newspapers and magazines.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.