that the most looked at entry yesterday was “Why There Is Night,” a poem, and the most commented (okay, it was just two) piece was “Is That A Squid In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?”

I’m enjoying Brownsville’s Web-O-Sphere quite a bit. There are some very intelligent and witty folks finding outlets at last. And I am really happy to read the commentary and really, really pleased to watch city council meetings in the comfort of my front room, cup of coffee in hand, but I’m also glad to see that there is hope that people looking in are interested in the wider world. Previously the highest ranking entries have been the ones about Brownsville’s streets.

I suspect that some of the interest there was politicians (Google Analytics reported one contact from a server named Carlos Cascos) and bureaucrats looking to play gotcha and some looking to see if I’m playing gotcha, which I’m not. I’m just a citizen interested in paying a reasonable cost for city services and seeing that city services are organized in a way that makes some sense (which, of course, they don’t). And I don’t want to see the city go through the embarrassment of further privatization, thereby approving the asinine point of view that profit and greed provide the only motives for doing competent work.

I was talking to a fellow blogger yesterday– face to face, at lunch– and he reminded me of a very early post on this blog of some video shorts, one an early Tim Burton effort and the other a cartoon of a boy who had problems with the wind. Those were memorable to him.

Don’t get me wrong. Watching and reporting the news and commenting is useful and entertaining. I don’t quite agree with Thomas “Tip” O’Neill that “All politics is local,” but I do believe that local politics is too important to be left in the hands of the politicians. Thus my search for information about how things are running in public works and engineering.

But life is larger than that, and I’m glad to see readers understanding that as well.