Northern Voice 2008 comes to a jubilant end. (Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to get there next time-please, please, please.)

Barbara Ganley decides ’tis not to late to seek craft a better world.

In “The Medium is the Message,” Marshall McLuhan writes, “The serious artist is the only person able to encounter technology with impunity, just because he is an expert aware of the changes in sense perception.”

This gathering of inspired and serious artists, this serious artist of the blogosphere and beyond making her own way through her vocation: oh brave real school, that has such people in it! (and never mind Prospero’s cynicism). Tonight I hope I will see and hear them in my dreams.