… if you have a home, why publish elsewhere? Why not put everything on that home to begin with? … why create and maintain an independent home? Why own a domain, setup servers, configure software, hunt down and test typeface after typeface? Why worry about spam or hacks or hackers? Why trade sleep for CSS precision? Why make and remake an SVG file to get the padding just so?

Simple: To revisit. To collate. To gain informed perspective by placing the words once separated by both time and vast digital expanses next to one another. To give those same thoughts the shape you saw for them when you wrote them. The shape they may have never achieved out in the wild. To reedit the edits from editors you didn’t agree with. To — if not own the bits — feel like you own the bits. To make sure the margins are absolutely, goddamned, perfectly measured.

Craig Mod.