It's been a Blue Monday here in Montclair in more ways than one. It's foggy and wet with patches of drizzle. The doorbell rang this morning and the Fedex man came with my advance copies of Blue Monday. The book looks fantastic and I can't wait to get it into the wild. It is the perfect size to be "A Guide to the Operating System of the System itself" as Reinhold Martin calls it. If the dot.com era was marked by Verso's somewhat (deliberately) cynical Communist Manifesto with the Komar and Malmid cover that was supposed to "fit snugly in a Prada purse," then Blue Monday is the irony-free successor.

Regrettably, ever since I moved to a so-called "failover" web hosting plan, my server has done nothing but fail. Varnelis.net took a turn for the worse today and the not-so-very-helpful staff weren't able to account for (or admit) what they had done. As a result, instead of being able to post this account to the blog quickly, I had to move the site over. Oh well, it all makes the eventual transition to a new host easier! In the meantime, some links will have broken. Unfortunately, it will probably be a long time before I can spare the cycles to rebuild them.

Did you know there's a whole site dedicated to photographs of copies of Blue Monday and their owners ?