i am so sorry about the dearth of updates recently. when mardi gras comes around in tandem with our dsl going all screwy, well. . . i just feel awful. don't think i haven't been thinking about you and your needs. i just can't imagine you sitting at home, office, or opium den and thinking, "erik used to love me? what gives?" as this post will hopefully prove, my little hands have not been idle. i can't even begin to tell you all the things that i have seen in the past week. i think the best way to describe what happened here is that when the comet on the collision course with earth is discovered to be undestructible and incapable of being diverted (most likely due to some bureaucratic oversight involving a un resolution vetoed by the us, britain, and israel), every major city will look exactly like this. there may be a few more fires and corpses littering the streets, but that would really be the only difference. it is nice to see every tree and powerline covered in cheap chinese plastic, though.