01/23/04 FRI:
---After a big slowdown or quasi-temporary stoppage in adding to my listings on biblio.com, I just posted through Pul-, including the tedium of giving all the issues of Psychotronic Video and Pulphouse Magazine separate listings. That brings the listings up from Mic- to Pul-, including mass-market paperbacks with publishers in that range.

---Living in Iowa I thought I ought to come up with at least a few comments from my perspective, muddled as that may be sometimes, regarding the big-news caucuses here recently. Hence my comments a few days ago. I can't be following current affairs as closely as I should if I want to be a spouter offer, but I probably end up being exposed to some things that most people, unfortunately, miss (and vice versa). I will try to continue posting these diatribes sometimes. They should come under the heading "fountainpennings", because if I transcribed what I write in my longhand journal (as I did here), such things might be more common on this weblog. I do think it might be more interesting than if it were just a straight bookseller site--kind of more into the spirit of what a blog should be--even if I come across poorly.

---Meanwhile, I appreciate receiving this response:
"Greetings Chris!
I've been following your political comments with great interest this week. I often succumb to despair when witnessing the spin that mainstream media puts on political events, so I very much appreciate your sharp observations. I have the feeling that Dean may be down, but he is not out yet. We'll see."