our new look

If you’re reading this, you’ve no doubt noticed our new look. (Or maybe not, if this is the first time you’ve read my blog). All this is part of my ongoing effort to make all of Art and Words more consistent in terms of design.

Still to come: uploading previous blog entries, which go all the way back to 2003. That’s something I’ll do once I catch up on my work backlog. I also need to incorporate the side menus for this blog: links, blog roll, and so on.

BTW, the rest of the site is/should be operational. All cgi scripts and php databases appear to be working! But comments are still disabled, at least until spam goes away. Heh.

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et bon jour

Artandwords.com appears to have made the leap to the new ISP. Everything appears to be running okay, though I’m still finalizing some of the cgi scripts. (These are what runs the Goddess Tarot and Lover’s Path Oracles, the free e-cards, and so on. In other words, the fun stuff.)

Most of the posts from this blog still need to be imported. This will happen in time.

(Comments are still disabled and probably will remain so. I just can’t deal with spam anymore. Sorry! If you have anything you wish to say to me, please drop me a line at e-comment [at] artandwords dot com.)

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movin’ on up

Artandwords.com will be moving to another ISP soon. So it may be unavailable or working intermittedly during this time. Just so you know. It’s all part of my ongoing plan to upgrade yet simplify the many sprawling parts of this site (which are currently sprawled across different servers, one which handles cgi scripts and php databases, another which doesn’t).

Until then, adieu.

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quote du jour, part deux

William Morris to Janey Morris, from a letter:

“I wish I could say something that would serve you, beyond what you know very well, that I love and long to help you; and indeed I entreat you (however trite the words may be) to think that life is not empty nor made for nothing, and that the parts of it fit one into another in some way; and that the world goes on, beautiful and strange and dreadful and worshipful.”

That last phrase — “beautiful and strange and dreadful and worshipful” — really encompasses so much, doesn’t it?

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quote du jour

From Norman Mailer, in a thoughtful article in today’s New York Times:

“[The writer] can grow as a person or he can shrink. … His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.”

I’ve also been immersed lately in Gay Daly’s wonderfully witty yet heartbreaking book, Pre-Raphaelites in Love. There are several quotes that I’ve underlined, mainly concerning the stuggles of the artist to reconcile the sometimes conflicting realities we live in — one from Charles Dickens is hilariously incisive. I will share these with you soon.

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