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Finally, I've uploaded the new web page. Actually most of it has been there for several weeks, but now the new index page is up. There are still a couple of minor glitches... some text that needs to be kicked in away from the margin, things like that... but everything works now, I think, except the couple of things that clearly say they don't (a couple of bits of writing still in progress).

I'll need to add to it. The above mentioned writing, which is perhaps another hour or two of work to add. More images in a couple of the galleries (some of which are already scanned). I need to clean up the punk memoirs, which are linked about two layers deep, they've been there forever and are starting to look dated and have lost a few images through accidental deletions over the years. Those pages get a lot of hits, so they really need to be fixed. I keep meaning to do a major re-write and expansion, but that will require time, something that's in short supply at the moment.

The biggest differences from the previous version: A lighter look, a bit less edge. More words. Changes in the way images are grouped and presented, less abstract than anytime recently. New images, some shown before in other places, some not. Old words, post-punk words, written a long time ago but only read by a very few people until now.

The old version is mostly still there, on blind links, although I'll probably delete almost all the old pages after a transition period. Got to keep all the kids who hot link images at least a little honest.

Usually I like to update the site once a year or so, as a very rough average. It's been a lot longer than that, it was overdue. Hopefully the next update won't need to be put off as long.

It's ironic that even as I tame down the site a little, I'm mulling some fairly extreme concepts, and corresponding with a Bay Area model who just might help make some of those concepts into reality.