Joining Blogstreet

I'm exploring some blog tools, like blogstreet...

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Potential Service Interruptions

JoeLamantia.com is moving to a new hosting provider over the next few days, and might be down from time to time while I migrate, upgrade, and rearchitect. Please bear with us during any technical difficulties...

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Minding the Gap - My First Exquisite Corpse

So it's nice to see that my first exquisite corpse is complete, as I was wondering how long it would be before I got to see the final result. What's an exquisite corpse, you say? A sort of collage invented by the Surrealists, wherein each person working on a canvas sees only a small portion of the work done before, and then passes on their contribution to the next in line. Anonymous collaborative processes always fascinate me, especially when they expose how tenuous context and meaning really are. I like the juxtaposition of irrelevant elements, the lunges for meaning across discontinuities, the idea of interrupted and altered messages; there's much to savor in a good corpse...

Here's the link:
http://anexquisitecorpse.net/cadavre-exquise/crypt/000122.shtml

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