Revenge of the SIMs

May 20, 2005 D. H. McKee

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I had a weird dream last night about infiltrating an evil government compound, using a stolen SIM card and an electronic government ID device that looked like a Blackberry. Yesterday, a sales guy kept bugging me about helping him insert a SIM card into his BlackBerry. Coincidence?
I’m sitting in the Starbucks at King and Weber this morning. It’s running busy today, but no one is sitting down; everyone’s hurrying off to work. I drove R to her job because she wanted to walk home. I was going to go to the gym, but I didn’t have anything ready, so I decided to blog instead. Seems to me that I need to find places other than coffee shops to do this.
I’m drinking a grande latte, by the way. It’s the only time I put milk in my coffee anymore.
Looks like a nice day today — apparently it’s going to be nice on the weekend too. That’s good. I’m looking at having a BBQ and inviting a couple of friends over. I’m working Monday, so it’s not a long weekend for me (sigh).
Echo Weekly has this terrific review/commentary of George Lucas and the Star Wars franchise — how he moves from the traditional good/evil dichotomy in the first trilogy to blurring the lines and commenting on absolutism in the second trilogy — he’s widely seen as making an anti-Bush comment with Anakin Skywalker’s remark “If you’re not with me, you’re my enemy.” I remember hearing ideologically similar remarks from Bush I and Reagan when they were in power. The article is here, at http://www.echoweekly.com.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.