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That’s right, read them and weep. I know you are all jealous of my new “Death Metal Black with Solar White Racing Stripes” look. They are pretty bad ass if I say so myself. I took the girls to get pedicures and they treated themselves, so why not me right? I am just sorta ticked the girl would not do a pirate skull on me, I think it was well beyond her artistic capabilities. Next time, I will ask them to let me do it myself, I will design a skull logo and do a 2/3 design to make it look as if the skull is embedded on the bed of the nail. Anyway, the best part of this whole thing is that foot rub they give you. I could get used to that every once in a while…

-Fco.

I am stoked about this one. I knew I would eventually want to put the galleries up, show the illustration work I have done and get back into it. Now I can finally show it without kicking you out to my deviantArt site, which is good and all but I like having this sort of content visible through the website. So…feel free to browse around, you will find the buttons on the top right navigational bar. One titled Sketches, the other Illustrations and I think those names are pretty self explanatory. There are navigational buttons beneath the gallery to view multiple pages and you can click on any thumbnail to enlarge. I have tested it on Firefox and it seems to work well, I will get around to testing it on other browsers later.

For now, that is the only upgrades I will be putting on, though a music link and an apparel link may eventually find their way here.  For now, enjoy the drawings and thank you again for visiting!

Fco.

So here it is, version three point Oh! That’s right, the first installment of focoproject, some of you will remember, was a rather complicated affair through Dreamweaver, far more complicated than it needed to be and a pain in the arse to update, which is why it never really did get updated…or not often anyway. Version deux point oh was the one I had going up until a few days ago, running on rapidweaver which was a hell of a lot simpler, but still only updatable on rapidweaver, which unfortunately only runs on a Mac. This meant that I could only post on my site when at work, and let’s be honest, the exciting stuff worth posting about does NOT happen at work. It really sucked having to wait to put something up until the following Monday, by which time I most likely would have forgotten.

This brings us to version tres punto zero, which as you can see, is a hell of a lot simpler and running on Wordpress, which I am happy to say allows you to post from pretty much any computer that allows for internet access. At some point I will be adding a gallery page for my sketches and illustrations, I will also be hopefully adding a page for music which would be nice to have on my own site. So, yes, there is still work to be done, but you will also notice that the movie and book reviews that I used to carry on the forum can now be found here. Sadly I have decided to get rid of the forum, where I was doing most of my posting but unfortunately not where all of the traffic was going. All of those reviews have been moved over here (a lengthy task when you are transferring all that stuff manually) which you can easily access by clicking on the categories link on the side bar. You can also use the search field on the upper part of the sidebar to look up any genre or movie/book title and this will conveniently pull it up for you (assuming I have it); and of course you are still welcome to leave your thoughts and comments by simply clicking on the post title and typing it up! So this will hopefully make things easier for everybody and will also create more traffic where the traffic should be.

Lastly, I must give credit where credit is due, so thanks Todd for 1) letting me know about wordpress, which will save me lots of headaches and 2) for letting my site kick it in your server. Having said that, welcome to the new website, I hope you enjoy it and while you can expect changes soon, they should not affect the functionality of the website, it will only add more goodies to it.

So, in the words of some random astronaut whom I do not know, as far as this website is concerned: “Houston, we are go!”

Fco.

I am re-reading The House of Leaves, something I rarely do with books. Much time needs to pass, details forgotten for a while before the curiosity within me is risen again to opened once read pages again. But it has been known to happen. This time around I am particularly paying more attention to “The Pelican Poems”, which I frankly ignored the first time around. They are all interesting, for sure, but among them I have found one that tonight–or should I say this morning–seems singularly delicious:

Pelican’s Ratiocination of Erring Recurrence in
Correspondence He Just Left Behind

With forgetful ease
the forgotten tease
of shapeless days
pass by
and I feel them hesitate
sometimes
and whisper their concordance
of slight gestures in glass.

They are mine
and drift still with the irregularity
of wine and doors
in constructed mythologies
of evening reflections
long since gone by.

– For Johanna in Rome
August 14, 1988

Credit on that, of course, goes to the gifted, Mark Z. Danielewski, as far as I am aware.

-Fco.