BUT I’VE ALREADY SEEN THE PICTURE; IT FILLED ME WITH BELIEF

“So I head into town with my sack full of silver” — Lyrics by Guy Khyser of Thin White Rope

Taking a quick break from social media of most kinds, certainly on the participation side and mostly on the watering-hole/watercooler side. Lots of reasons for this. Mostly because things were becoming far too noisy. When I return, there’ll probably be a pruning (if not a Reckoning since that fits the frame of the stuff I’m working on at the moment.)

Rest assured you’re all lovely persons, even those who I’ve never met and probably won’t ever meet in the flesh. It’s definitely me, not you. Keep on keeping on.

That said, I’ll probably post updates to one and only one place, being here. For those of you reading this on rebroadcast channels, that means this URL:

http://highway-62.com/wp

Yep. A good ‘ol WordPress blog. Imagine that. In this day of Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Grindr, Uber, Instagram, Snapchat, Ello (RIP), Matchspace, ConfirmationBiasZone and USEnet, it’s all back to the egg. Which isn’t Blogspot because, pretty done with them.

One caveat. I’ll probably be updating this other place:

http://smoketowncomics.tumblr.com

As it’s an active research blog for your enjoyment and for use by Luis Guragña and other artists who may or may not be working with me on SMOKETOWN and MY WINGS ARE BLACK (which are indeed linked by geography and some characters, though set decades apart.) Just don’t expect everything to show up there. Gotta keep some surprises for the readers of the comic.

But yeah, no Highway 62 Revisited, no Intrapanel, and sorry Twitter pals.

I may get back to substantive blogging about comics and movies and even music here (hey, those folks in Federale are pretty great, glad I heard about them through the A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT soundtrack) sometime but for the moment it’ll be short bursts and pictures like the above from my Flickr site.

Though honestly, that new Flickr Uploadr is a terrible piece of software, obtrusive, buggy *and* makes things unnecessarily difficult. I actually had to force-quit the process to undelete it and Time Machine in the old app which was not fancy but bullet-proof and easier to use. Flickr Dev Team, if you read this, consider it not quite ready for Beta status.

Please don’t expect big ‘ol takedown pieces when I get back to things. I’ve only got time to build stuff. Same with you. See something you don’t like? Build a thing you like instead, even if it’s only a very small thing compared to the media monoliths we scurry in the shadows of. The dinosaurs laughed at those little shrews until the furry critters ate all their eggs and were better able to survive winter.

If for some reason there’s a need to get a hold of me, my email address always works.

maxwellm AT pobox dot com

 

Your pal,

-m.