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beautifully broken way.<\/p>\nIn the context of an Introduction to Information Systems, I told my students this morning, at the branch campus down on the border, that about the time they were born, my job title was: <\/p>\n
Webmaster. <\/p>\n
They laughed at the sound of it<\/p>\n
One guy told me afterwards that it sounded like some kind of warlock guy from a video game. I asked him if he’d ever heard the word ‘webmaster’ before, and he said no. <\/p>\n
I think that might be true of the whole class, or very nearly so. <\/p>\n
I confess it did make me feel old, but just for a second. <\/p>\n
I got in the car and glided down to the coolest of the cool towns, the one that styles itself as: <\/p>\n
Mayberry on Acid. <\/p>\n
And it’s true. There are plenty of places that will proudly and somewhat ironically imply that they suffer from mental derangement. "Keep Austin Weird" and all. <\/p>\n
But this one is truly and unironcially mentally ill by most objective measures. <\/p>\n
Not in a violent way at all. <\/p>\n
In a truly and beautifully broken way.<\/p>\n
This was my view while I sipped my exquisite java and waited an interminably long time for my breakfast bagel. <\/p>\n
It’s a picture that needs to be taken again, maybe many times, to better capture certain details. <\/p>\n
That IS a bathtub with a mirror in it. <\/p>\n
But you can’t really see the reflection in the mirror. <\/p>\n
Nor can you easily tell that the window across the street used to be real, but then was boarded up, and finally painted over to look just like a real window again. <\/p>\n
There’s a dimensionality to this view that is very rare and precious. Acidic, maybe. <\/p>\n
You can almost and pretty much tell what the word in the closer window says, right? So it’s got that going for it too.<\/p>\n
Mostly though it’s the meta-message that speaks to me.<\/p>\n
Saying: Poor, and broken a little for real in the head, but committed to excellence of dubious sorts, and very, very cool.<\/p>\n
It’s a view that resonates, to put it mildly. On acid, you might say that this is a picture of my soul. <\/p>\n
I believe I’ll be trying to make this image again, and I’ll do a better job next time, and I’ll keep doing it until I get it right, or until my time in this landscape that I conditionally but genuinely love comes to a close. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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