it’s harder to format the damn blogs than it is to write them. you’d think there’d be some default setting to choose in terms of fonts and so forth but no-ooo (as you can see from my pathetically and widely variously randomly spaced and fonted posts to date). one i wrote mostly on my blackberry in a cab and in a psychiatrist’s waiting room, then finished at work (don’t tell the boss) and silly me for thinking all that was just plain text words, postable, compliant, ready to roll over and format for me. optimistic girl, thinking this part might be easy after my hands atrophied from frantically thumbing microkeys as the taxi slalomed down fifth avenue.
just spent an entertaining half hour trying and failing to get my postings to date to match one another using the available settings, and it seems there is no combination of choices that equals the default result that you get when you type in the annoyingly small box provided on myspace’s post page, which is what i’m doing at the moment. (5:30 am, no music playing, and of course i’m not reading a book, how the hell can you be writing a blog and reading books or watching DVDs at the same time, they may as well have included masturbation as one of the “what i’m doing now” choices.) (though perhaps that could be done…)
and, in other news from the sucks-to-be-me-sometimes department, YES this stuff matters, matters terribly to a person born with five planets in virgo. the fucking blogs must match, the way one’s pubes must more or less match whatever’s sprouting from one’s head (mine don’t, and it keeps me up nights).
i need some advice from the rest of the blogging myspace world about how to get this right.
and while i’m asking for advice, i may as well put this useless fear out there — what about posting poems? not something i’ve ever done, i still waste my time stuffing the fuckers into envelopes and mailing them out to disinterested editors, in order to appear in journals that no one reads. (admit it, poets, you don’t read them either, when your work finally makes it into Agni you just check your own poem to make sure wasn’t poisoned with typos, don’t you?) posting them here eliminates that other frustrating activity as a choice, and … i just might be answering my own question here… look for new blogpoems soon!
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My collar and cuffs (carpet and drapes?) have matched for years now. Actually is not so great.
For what it’s worth, I’ve been told that if I post a poem on the internet, technically I cannot offer First North American rights to a publisher. If I were a big poetry name, this might be an issue, but… Also, many journals will ask only for one time rights rather than insisting they be the first.
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