I am not as much anti-technology as against the uses to which technology is often put, particularly digital technology. I could sum the whole thing up, I guess, with an axiom. I don't own a microwave and I make my own bread from scratch, without a bread machine. I'm learning to spin wool in my spare time and, for my birthday, my friend Wendy gave a blown-glass fountain pen that I use with a dip ink well when I write letters to her. I'm an online editor at a bleeding-edge technology Web site.
Computers make the unnecessary possible.
Charlie Varon is a humorist and playwright. Calif. Jim and Charlie are also co-founders of the citizen group Californians for Earthquake Prevention and partners in Mockingbird Media , which offers a full line of comic services. All rights reserved.