Errata is a web journal written by Robert Davis who has neither spent a night in a ghost town nor pulled a turnip from the earth. He doesn't even know if turnips grow in the ground. Perhaps on trees, like candy corn. Therefore, Errata is a non-commercial project.

Observation #1: It may be appropriate, when leaving a movie theater, to say "mysterious."

Observation #2: It may be appropriate, when leaving a movie theater, to say "mysterious" at the top of your lungs. Bring your eyebrows together before you say it. Effective!

Observation #3: Same for books. Even at libraries.

There is a prize for people who correctly guess the thing about Metropolis, Nevada.

Except where the text specifically states otherwise, Errata's vagaries are indicated vaguely and its authors are indistinct in the traditional way of the Internet, except where the authors lay claim to their work. In some cases Robert Davis lays claim to work that is not his own but has been abandoned like so many ghost towns. Except where held presently, fistfuls of dirt are suspended via dispersal, or dispersed via suspension (in the air), and thus their dissolution is their transcendence, or their transcendence is their dissolution. And yet our eyes tear, and our vision is impaired, demonstrating for the umpteenth time that one entity's gain is another's fit of sneezes. Except where indicated, storms shall outlive the clay upon which they rain, unless storms are improperly delimited by their clouds, which dissolve, rather than by their inevitable return. Thus the clay loses, unless the clay is said to own the storm, to use it to make itself heavy, to make itself cling to white garments, refuse dispersal, cake upon the facades of abandoned buildings, and sit like Man [sic] upon the earth where it is pelted by a storm that it owns. In which case the clay still loses, if you ask us.

Some of the above is legally binding and should be considered a mental contract between Errata and those upon whom it acts. The bit about the prize should be considered an overstatement insofar as prizes differ from dirt and prize dispersal differs from dirt dispersal. Please recall that ownership is a weight and, therefore, hope that you do not win the prize.

One day Errata or its representatives will call upon you for a favor. It is expected that you will hop-to without delay.

You may contact Robert Davis by email unless it's about the rock that was thrown in anger. The rock is more properly called a clod. Why do you continue to raise the topic?

27 July 2004

It's Alive

A few administrative notes about this web site:

I've recently overhauled some things internally, but externally you should see little difference. One thing though: everything posted to this site will now go through this blog. Before, the reviews and articles were outside of the blog, and I found myself pointing at them ("go read this") since it wasn't always obvious. Now they'll just appear here, too, even the articles with their crazy little sticky notes.

If you read Errata via an RSS reader, note that there is now only one feed for the whole site, not two. It's available in multiple versions, but they refer to the same content. I recommend the RSS 2.0 feed, which is the default, because it has pretty pictures. Your current feed will continue to work, but you may need to unsubscribe and resubscribe if you want to upgrade to the latest/greatest version. (Look in the lower-left margin of this page for subscription information.)

Thanks.

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Reader Comments

July 28, 2004, 02:28 PM

Jim

I'm glad to see that all your reviews will now be going through the blog--I missed too many of them because I would keep forgetting to check the reviews page.

July 29, 2004, 05:25 PM

davis

OK, I'm glad to hear that. I went back and forth on it. It was a bit weird before, because the blog was a late addition, added just before the site launched. One of my many errors. :-)

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