The Little Campus on Maryland Avenue in Annapolis ah~ha, replaced now by a pretend Irish pub, was our neighborhood bar, when Laurie and I lived on Hanover Street. It was where Laurie introduced me to Campari
back home
We were in Maryland for the last week, at my parents' house.

awys--k.lj

so sjca, you do bring to me kindreds ~

elsewh-

What are we likely to carry with us when we ask that our relationship with all technologies should be like that we have with the technology of printed words?" (349).
"Blinded by the Letter: Why Are We Using Literacy as a Metaphor for Everything Else?" (19)

I wasn’t impressed with the opening essay’s content, which was hard to follow at times, but the activities section at the end is where the richness of 's vision begins to take shape.
“Opening New Media to Writing: Openings & Justifications,” a piece with five different “openings” that seems better suited for hypertext than book format. somewhat ironic since one of her key points is for writing teachers to pay closer attention to the materiality of texts. This understanding of materiality (a la Bruce Horner and Christina Haas) a critical point feels shld be explored further within new media scholarship. With each “opening,” she tries to define “new media,” finally doing so with any clarity by the third “opening,” a tough enough task to be sure, but - few page-long uninterrupted paragraphs - materiality of the text shld be considered more.