Back-Talk and Over-feeding.

In keeping with the design and functionality around here being a good two or three years behind the curve, I’ve gone ahead and enabled Trackback and tried to fix up the RSS feeds (RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0). Please let me know if I broke anything. (Also, if there’s a quick way to allow trackbacks on all the old posts without going through and doing it manually, that’d be helpful to know too.)

Senryu in the City.

How can we fix us? The fights, the silence . . . I know! Let’s get a puppy!” A hearty congrats to Joel Derfner, who’s both a friend from college and the brother/roommate of a good friend here at Columbia, on the publication of his recent book, Gay Haiku (a project which originated on his blog…assuredly a better way to make this hobby pay than the Kottke route.)

New Looks, New Voices.

With spring just around the corner, old blog stalwarts Lots of Co. and Do You Feel Loved? (and, for that matter, even the ghastly-retro AICN) get spiffy new redesigns. And, if you stop by GitM mainly for the politics, I have two newly-born blogs of note for you. My Columbia colleague Ted Wilkinson (currently working on a dissertation on Pat Brown) has set up shop over at The Late Adopter, and Ben Kirby, an old friend and political hand from DC, is now posting at The Spencerian. All of the above are well worth checking out.