Back in Portland now, the throat is mending nicely. Last night I slaved away on some fylers and ads for a concert that the radio station is putting on. I'm really happy with how they turned out. The ad will be run in the Portland Mercury for the next two weeks. I am also try to tun it in the Willamette Week. The other designs (numbered 1, 2, and 3,) will be put up on telephone poles and countertops all over town. The concert should be really great, as the bands are awesome and the people putting it on are great (including myself, of course).

Following a link I saw on that channel last night, I came upon an International Appeal from Birzeit University in the West Bank, one of the Isreali occupied territories in Palestine. It seems that the Isreali military has set up a checkpoint along the road to the university which is effectively preventing the students from reaching their classes. As a result, the university is on the verge of closure. I urge you to read this page, and consider signing one of these appeals to the Isreali government.

March 23, 2003  
This year I have chosen to celebrate my last ever Spring Break by having my tonsils out. So here I am, back home in rural Auburn, California, floating in a sea of movies, war coverage, parental love, and liquid vicodin. The organs in question came out two days ago, and I am handling it pretty well. I am in a lot less pain than I thought I would be at this point. In fact, I even ate solid food last night! All in all, I am enjoying the enforced downtime and using the opportunity to stay fully up-to-date and the sadly-now-unfolding war in Iraq.

Yes, I am against this war. I feel that it will harm America's security interests more than it will help them. It will do this by further radicalizing the Islamic world, and alienating crucial allies, whom we need to cooperate with in order to share important intelligence regarding terrorist threats.

Also, America cannot afford this war. We have a monstrous deficit, and yet GW has proposed a budget which makes no allowances for war costs, while offering up a massive tax cut. Meanwhile, the school year in Oregon has been shortened almost a full month, due to lack of funding.

And of course, people will die. I don't want to see and human beings, Iraqi or American, die unless it is absolutely unavoidable. I do not feel that this is the case. I am happy to say that my representative in the House of Congress, Earl Blumenauer, agrees with me. I wrote him a letter today, expressing my support for his efforts to speak for the anti-war stance within the current hawkish administration. He has also proposed the "Bike Commuter Act" which will provide a tax cut for people who ride their bikes to work. Sounds sweet to me!

March 7, 2003  
So the Blogger website has this thing up for a free trail of this strange service called Audblog. The way it works is that you call up this number and speak and it records an mp3 of your voice and automatically posts is to your blog (if you don't know what a blog is: you are reading one). I thought it would convert my words to text, which would have been cooler, though I had no idea how that could possibly work. Anyway, I gave it a (free) try, and you can click on the little icon thingy below to hear the results. This is me at the end of a long week, feeling tired, trying to make myself excited about the weekend, and about to procrastinate by messing around on the internet before getting back to work. It gets cut off at the end.

Do I sound gay?

In other news, there is an awesome indie press store here in Portland called Reading Frenzy, and I have spent the last half hour checking the links on their site. One of them eventually led to this, which is really pretty odd and funny. Also, this is a really cool little creative forum, so check it out.

About Me
My name is Matt Wright and I am a scared racoon baby trapped in the body of an elderly woman. Just kidding. I'm actually a (somewhat) well-adjusted twenty-one year old, reared in the magical forests of Northern California ("Pass me the water crystals, MoonBeam!"), and currently residing in Portland, Oregon. I like to spend my time exploring my navel, knitting, and creating my own dog calendars.

When I am really drunk and standing in front of a bunch of cartoon "Hey!"s (and you'd be surprised how often this happens), I generally look like this.

I like to make music using my computer, and, lucky for you, I also like to put mp3s of said music up on this very webpage. I also like to take zany pictures and draw wacky drawlings, both of which are also on display here.

I am releasing (if you can call putting files on the web releasing) my music under the name Comma, which is why this webpage says "Comma" at the top. Of course, it actually says "Comma," but does that silly little punctuation make any difference? Well, yes. The title of the webpage is pronounced "Comma (pretentious pause)". Of course, you can leave out the pause normally, but not when you are talking about the webpage. This webpage is very artistic and important. Never forget this, as it is vital.

What else... Ah yes, if you haven't already noticed, I am part of this way superbad group of like-minded people called Metempsychosis. The site you see here is but one branch an ever growing... tree? Check out the main site for more good music. And, of course, I'd be way stoked if you'd e-mail me.