81 summer 10 moon
51vo año de la edad de espacio
51st year of the space age
9 september 2008

---

A couple changes in my life recently.

1. I have joined vloggerheads, and: 2. gone back to school.

Only taking one class for five units, late afternoons on Tuesday and Thursday at City College, here in downtown San Diego. Arabic. Salaam aleikum.

You will recall that I only go to Tijuana every two or three weeks now, that I am mostly staying in San Diego, cooking and driving and cleaning and dog-walking for my mother. That I have been doing this for over a year now, ever since my stepfather died and mom had her hip replacement and chemotherapy. She is much better. I go home to my studio in Tijuana every three or four weeks for a few days and nights.

Acanto y laurel is having our last poetry reading on the 27th of September, 7 pm, in the cantina Dandy del Sur.

And vloggerheads? This is a new video-logging site set up by a handful of talking heads and I.T. admins who were tired of the vicious treatment handed out by “haters” on youtube and other sites. There are not quite a of us, vloggers I mean, so far. The closed-door site began to operate in the first week of August and slowly expanded, letting in more members as the weeks went by. I am Daniel, #607.

Now I have never had a camera – all my videos on youtube were either collages or used webcams in one internet cafe or another. But another vloggerhead, when he saw one of my first collage-style videos on the site (in which I mentioned that I have no camera, nor can I afford one), offered to send me a webcam. And so now I have one of those little black balls that sits on top of the screen and records my talking head and voice.

81 summer 10 moon 51vo año de la edad de espacio
51st year of the space age
9 september 2008