What is Popnirvana?
Originally I intended to write about bands on this Web site, but something happened along the way -- as is common with me, unfortunately -- and I wrote about my life instead. I'd been keeping a journal since my senior year at college. I just reorganized that information and picked up where I left off. The title didn't have anything to do with the content but that was okay. It was easy to remember and the URL wasn't taken.

Lately I've come to feel somewhat less comfortable writing so openly about my personal life. In the place of words I offer pictures -- with the disclaimer that I'm not in any way trained as a photographer (I took a class in high school, got a B or so, and probably forgot everything I learned) and my Canon PowerShot is extremely limited in its capabilities. I take pictures because I can't help myself; as a writer, I'm completely, one hundred percent bowled over by the succinctness and (potential) communicative power of point-and-shoot photography. Few pictures are worth a thousand words but even two hundred fifty or three hundred isn't bad.

Why keep a journal?
This is an easy question worth asking. Keep a journal to remember who you were, and how the world seemed to be.

Why make a journal public?
This is a trickier one. The honest answer is that for a long time I didn't think twice about it; I was a writer, this -- however personal -- was my work, and the technology existed, so why not put it out there? Now, increasingly, I have reservations about this -- in particular about putting the people in my life out there in quite the same way. Now I have a private handwritten journal I keep and I have my writing, which serves a fundamentally different purpose.

Isn't it time you redesign this page?
Oh but it's almost cool again, isn't it?

Why are there so many typos?
It's a strange thing I can't put my finger on. In elementary school I was repeatedly scolded by my teachers for being careless and I took offense because in many cases I cared deeply about what I'd written. There's a difference between being careless and not careful enough and I am absolutely not careful enough.

Does this site have anything to do with the band Nirvana?
No, though I strongly recommend picking up a copy of In Utero. It's a hard album to listen to and a sad one but a relatively pure statement of a man's condition and thus good art.

Who are you and where do you live?
Name: Steve M. Age: A young thirty. Home: G-point, Brooklyn. I can be reached at elevenfiftynine at Yahoo dot com.