Making this a living space

This is how it’s going:

Blog’s back. Backyard’s bullying me.

I’ve made this blog public again, and will be adding material now and then. I’ll also be working on the design, so it might get a little buggy, but hopefully not for long.

My summer’s overloaded with projects. I need to write a script for a documentary about Daniel Defoe, write an article, also about Daniel Defoe. The documentary’s about punishment, the article’s about trauma, so, all pretty heavy stuff.

The picture to the right shows Defoe in the pillory. He was sentenced to stand there four times after his 1703 arrest for seditious libel. The pillory was often a violent punishment, with crowds throwing things at the person being punished. Rumor has it that Defoe’s bookseller came and sold his texts, and people threw flowers instead of brickbats.

The big, physical project is my backyard. It’s been a pile of weeds for ages. Hopefully in about two weeks it’ll be a usable space. I’ll document the progress of that in pictures. Here’s one to show what a mess it is now.