MIA

It's been awhile, I know.

I have myriad excuses, some of them good, some not so good. My good excuses are a) that I am not, at the present time, Stuck in Maryland, which gives me a reason to live beyond the blog. b) the only folks posting OR commenting these days are mathgimp and I (with the occasional surprise appearance by fodder) but we all live in the same house so we can talk to each other instead of post...but then I have strange experiences...like on New Years where multiple people come up to me to tell me they read the blog daily, and miss the frequent updates. So, absentee HONers, you are missed.

Regardless, I have an amazing photo series to publish sometime in the very near future - I'm just waiting on an email to make it complete. Other than that, Austin is wonderful. I had dinner with a friend I hadn't seen in three years - I predicted we'd only last an hour, and we spent four and a half discussing Nietzsche, politics, and rhetorical theory. You may had died of boredom, but I was in heaven.

And, of course, the Iowa caucus was tonight. I predicted Obama and Huck for first (although those words are appearing all over ze interveb, it's true for me). I find the Clinton/Edwards tie somewhat fascinating...the way the media will spin this (devastating loss for Clinton? strong finish for Edwards? air of inevitability for Obama?) will be interesting...just so long as we don't start rehearsing "President Huckabee." Now that's some scary shit.

Alright bedtime for me, and then pictures to follow soon. I love and miss you all.

me