http://www.newsweek.com/id/73896

There’s an article in the print edition of Newsweek this week that explores the idea that the quest for happiness is overrated. It draws an important distinction between depression and sadness, too…but it speaks to something I’ve felt in my gut for a long time.

This online version isn’t as comprehensive, so I recommend the print version if you want the full story.

Go ahead…flame away.

After a couple of months of using Facebook, I’ve decided it’s pretty much a timesuck and I’m going to dump it. I’ve already got a Livejournal, a Myspace, and my work at Gotpoetry.com and FB just takes up time without having much appreciable benefit.

At heart, I find I’m just not the pure social networking type, and FB — with its endless spam — is just not for me. I use the other spaces more for blogging and art and promotion; just not finding a useful purpose there.

So…adios to that, gang. I’ll be getting rid of it later tonight after a lot of folks have seen the notice I placed there.

Too much going on, and spending a lot of time working on stuff old and new…little time to post. The new project with Faro is taking a lot of my creative juice, hence the short poems I’m posting here are pretty much respites from that.

Tonight is Gotpoetry Live, our monthly new poem night. Read something new! C’mon down, dammit.

Last night was fun — javabill and I went out to Hampshire College and did a workshop for the gang out there. Lots of fun and good stuff emerging from everyone in the writing exercises. Cool night.

See you tonight, I trust; if not, see you around…