I once read that among the predictions made by Myrddin Wyllt – the madman and prophet that Merlin, the great wizard of Arthurian legend, is based on – was that one day a man standing on one shore would instantly speak to a man standing on another through a “talking stone”. As if seeing someone yapping on their cell phone or chiseling glyphs into it with their thumbs wasn’t already enough to make me think he might have been onto something, I also like to note that stone is the basis of our modern technology – quartz in particular – and is used in the silicon chips that run cell phones and computers. It makes it easier for me to go along with this kind of craziness, the kind that inspires my work.

Anyway… with this in mind, and as a nod to my own recent dream about a white stone with unbelievable consciousness implications, I just got a white iPhone and finally jacked myself into the mobile world. Uh-oh, here we go…