William John Bert

Today’s the third annual Friendsgiving, a Thanksgiving-like pre-Thanksgiving event for a bunch of people who like each other; hence, Friendsgiving. Thanksgiving’s always been my favorite holiday so I’m more than happy to celebrate it twice a year. The first two Friendsgivings took place at my house, but because in the spring I traded my room [...]

Over the past couple weeks I worked on relaunching the website for Call + Response, an art show I co-curate with my friend Kira. The website for the second iteration of the show, Call + Response: Textures, is pretty different from the first version. The first was ultra minimal, hand-coded, and didn’t use a CMS—just [...]

I can’t stand Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, but the best part about waking up at 6:35 a.m. is his Writer’s Almanac. For five minutes he puts his cornmeal voice to good use, first to list this-day-in-literature history tidbits, then to read a poem. In this way I learned that three of my favorite [...]

In my old dog, new tricks post, I mentioned that, though I used to blog, what you’re reading now represents my first use of WordPress. Was it hard to set up? No. It doesn’t hurt that I have a computer science background, including an undergrad degree in the field. Of course, when I was in [...]

So I’m actually not new to blogging–I blogged for about a year from 2003-2004 and, though it may lead to embarrassment, I’ll even link to the old thing, which is still up: Pleonastic Ephemera. (I’ve also participated in several private group blogs for sharing writing with geographically-dispersed friends.) Pleonastic Ephemera was on Blogspot, which is [...]