preparing to spend next week in santa cruz. we've rented a beach-side house with some friends, and we've been looking forward to this respite for months now. and now the weather has turned from winter to summer, as usual maybe two days worth of spring, we might even get a chance to dunk our toesies in the warm pacific. the website for the rental agency states that the house is equipped with hi-speed internet access, so i'll be taking my laptop, but most likely spend most of my time drinking beer and gazing at the surf while nicholas, with our friends' 2 and half year old, scampering about like, like, like, kids at the beach.

so for a week au revoir mon pretties. oh and in a little bit of self-promotion i've got a text in the latest fhole. look up the line-up there, there's some great stuff by john w. macdonald, rob mclennan, jon cone, lynn mcclory, francis raven etc. etc. send 3 dollars canadian to daniel f. bradley, now.

word to yr momma