I don't regard lj as dead, and am still trying to use it so well as I can; not best pleased with how much less that is in the job I've held for the past fifteen months as in the one I held for the previous eight and a half years. I'm not drawn to facebook or twitter or the like because I don't often think in units smaller than whole paragraphs, and lj's a sight better adapted for essay-shaped thoughts. One of these weeks I hope to get around to having something choate to say about recent mulling about photographs of people, in that I think I've identified the direction in which I am primarily interested as abstraction without objectification and that's proving interestingly challenging (I've only really been doing this seriously for a couple of years, and understood what I was doing well enough to define what I am interested in for less time than that.)

The first emotional response I have to LOVEAMOEBA is "how does one tell the difference between masturbation and incest in this context?"