Universe goes analog!

In a classic temporal reversal, this advanced self-publishing machine (ie, the "web-log") has been converted into a bi-monthly print column in the LA Alternative, a Los Angeles-area lifestyle newspaper, now the only alternative weekly in the city since the LA Weekly's deep sell out. Logistically, the switchover means this: I will be writing a new "Universe" every other week which will appear first in the LA Alternative, then, a few days later, on this blog. This blog itself will remain an exclusive source of "Recent Mountain" links, web-only entries, and discussion. I will also get paid.

This development has only increased my befuddlement regarding the sudden legitimacy of the "blog" as a format, but I am running with it. Homies, I am excited for a new inter-media, inter-textual, scientific discourse. Readers of the paper column will be (and are) prompted to continue the discourse on the more communal, more expanded internet format. If you will, the column is a hyperlink to a larger conversation.