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Preface
I started
 Xanax Pop
sometime around June of 2004. I had been suspicious of poets'reaction to the web log format; coming from the perspective of an internet programmer, I believed blogs to be just another excuse for people NOT to learn the technology behindthe web. Blogs made it all very easy, especially blogspot.com, the free web service that provided users with online space to publish just about anything; simply point your  browser to blogspot and type. While the artworld was opening up to the possibilities of internet media, while flash and java and php were ushering in a new age of onlinenetworked multimedia applications, these people were writing glorified emails. Sheesh!It was later on, of course, after a bit of maturity had come my way, that I began tounderstand the appeal of blogs. I couldn't expect everyone in the world to share my passion for code; not everyone was going to get server space and host dynamic sound-video flash toys. And these people deserved to be heard. So I went through a few blogspot blogs, the first of them collaborative (Stamen Pistol), until I discovered Open Source blogsoftware.I had a Palm IIIxe handheld computer and I was lucky enough to run across an applicationthat published posts written on the Palm to an FTP server you set up in configuration; thiswas
 Xanax Pop's
first incarnation. The posts were stored as flat files in a directory under the blog's root. For much of 2004 and 2005, I was curled around my Palm Pilot, tappingaway at the poems in this book. The application was perfect for me, as I was away frommy desktop computer for much of the day; I was working at a video store in Lorain, Ohioat the time as low-level store management, and was often at the store until one or two inthe morning.Much of this work was written at that store, or on the long walk home. The store was precisely on the opposite side of town from where I was living at the time, and I savored
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