the site

Tuesday, 02 January 2007

When I first began this site, just over six years ago, it was little more than a technical exercise. I was working on writing an interface for a client to add content to a webpage easily and decided to test it out and refine it for myself as I went along. Although I had thought about starting my own website and even posted a few things online around Thanksgiving 2000, I decided that it had to be automated before I’d do it regularly, and so I pulled all of that other content and created what you see hear, well, what would eventually become what you see here. The first automated posts went online just after New Years in 2001, but it would be several months before the site got it’s own domain name (before that it was just an IP address).

What didn’t take long was for me to hit a stride writing. Those first months I was writing often and vividly about New York and what I saw there as I first began to explore and learn the City. I’ve never again written with such regularity as those first months. From the very beginning I thought of the site as an extension, to a large degree as a replacement, for my offline journal where I thought through my own emotions and conundrums and psychoses. I brought it online partly out of enthusiasm for the technology, a way of testing myself, but also out of a desire to see what would happen—it seemed like an exciting moment, when something new was being born, and I wanted to participate in it. And it has been rewarding, affording me opportunities to meet people I would never otherwise have met, but also to participate and witness other’s lives as they unfold. I guess that’s why I still do it.

oncaesura continues to be a place for pause and a chronicle of interiority, concerned only with those things that interest me, that strike my fancy, or become part of my life: reading, writing, narrative, literature, politics, psychology, philosophy, as well as daily life. I’m especially gratified by the way my voice has developed through writing about books and now into stories about Thailand. It’s been a long time now that I’ve been doing this, and I don’t anticipate stopping anytime soon. Thanks for reading.

— andru @ 8:55am | Comment [1]

the author

Sunday, 12 November 2006

My name is andru, and my wife (referred to as nj on the site) and I currently reside in Bangkok, although our permanent address is still in the United States. I recently completed a Masters degree in fiction writing at City College of New York, and am a freelance database and applications developer by day.

I’ve lived in the Northeast, the Northwest, the West Coast, the East Coast, the South, the Southeast, and now overseas in Asia, Southeast Asia, no less. I hope that isn’t the most interesting thing about me.

If you’d like to contact me, you can email me here.

— andru @ 5:16am | Comment

the name

Saturday, 11 November 2006

A caesura is a natural pause or break in a line of poetry, when the rhythm allows you to breath a moment before continuing on. I had come to believe that I lived in-between, in the gaps as it were, and wanted a domain that reflected that. Thus caesura.

The “on” was added as a reference to javascript events (which are all named on-something) because I was a programmer (and wrote all the code that powered the site originally) and as a way of making the caesuras active rather than passive. When you pause or you make a pause, the name suggests to me.

— andru @ 8:55am | Comment

administrivia

Monday, 14 June 2004

The entire site is now powered by Dean Allen’s Textpattern, with hosting provided by Textdrive.

All content is copyright oncaesura.com, except comments, which belong to their respective authors. Speaking of comments, I reserve the right to delete them if offensive, inappropriate or an advertisement. The css is a modified version of the textpattern default, other design, including the hideous color scheme, is my own.

And I frequently modify my words after they’ve been posted, for reasons of grammar or coherence or clarity or beauty. I make no apologies for that. If you’d like to use any of the copyrighted material here, just drop me a line. I probably won’t have any objections.

— andru @ 12:53am | Comment