The Notebook

mod­ify behav­ior
obe­di­ent appear­ance
veil over self

See what oth­ers did with the Three Words thomg pro­vided by aim­ing your browser here.…

Ideas sim­i­lar to this have been rat­tling around in my head for the past few days.  This draft is just the begin­ning, I think of a direc­tion I want to write for a while.  I am tired of the kinder­garten atmos­phere of alleged grown peo­ple not doing their jobs.…..

ThomG’s three words for today are “occur, ragged, tidy” and they helped bring some focus.  This needs work, but every­thing needs to start somewhere.

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It never occurred that it could hap­pen,
Not here.  Not ever here.
But it could hap­pen, it has hap­pen,
con­tin­ues to occur and we shall
all be the poorer for it.

Lead­er­ship runs ragged around hoary
excuses,
                “Dan­ger, Land of Lib­erty!
                Dan­ger!”
                            still they cry, “The
Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!”
Pan­der­ing to vocal fac­tions 24/7.

Keep­ing their present place in the scheme
of things, more press­ing than leav­ing life
a tad, just the tini­est bit tidier than when
they were elected upon it.

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Also, I have a project I’ve been work­ing on.  A new lit­er­ary jour­nal called ‘Cats with Thumbs’ and the first issue came out on Mon­day.  Check it out if you’re interested.

A project that I have been work­ing on for the past 6 weeks or so, has come to fruition.  I have cre­ated a new Lit­er­ary Jour­nal that I call Cats with Thumbs, and the first issue is now out.

The cost is nil, so the only thing you need to do now is head over to http://catswiththumbs.wordpress.com/and down­load a copy of the Debut Issue.

There are sev­eral writ­ers from ‘around here’ that are included in this issue, and I know they would appre­ci­ate it if you took a few min­utes to take a look at the debut issue of Cats with Thumbs.  I’m pleased as punch with how it turned out and that so many cre­ative sorts agreed to have their work included in this issue.

I belong to one of the best writ­ing com­mu­ni­ties on Live­Jour­nal which is run by Angie W. (therer2doors), and one of the joys is read­ing so much great work by gifted poets in a safe and com­fort­able set­ting.  The com­mu­nity is called ‘your_spirals’ and another nifty thing that comes out of the group is a semi-regular pub­li­ca­tion of mem­bers work. 

The newest project is titled ‘Spi­ral­ing Thrice’ and there is a (for now) free PDF copy avail­able through the Lulu store­front.  There are some won­der­ful poets included in this issue and I encour­age you to take a look, and per­haps pur­chase a print copy.  There are also a cou­ple of poems that I wrote included…

I would love to take credit for the fol­low­ing, but I can­not.  I can tell you that this lovely piece of snark came from the lit­er­ary blog, bark.

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The Cath­ode Ray Review
Eng­lish Depart­ment, P.O. Box 10102, Lit­er­a­ture Uni­ver­sity, New York NY 10102–0000. Email: theliteraturereview@​junkmail.​com Con­tact: Greg Ari­ous, edi­tor. (deceased) Mag­a­zine: 13X2; 4–1180 pages; coated with polyurethane cover paper; 120lb. “The Cath­ode Ray Review pub­lishes 10,000+ word sto­ries that steer clear of char­ac­ter, and plot, unless they resem­ble recent movies. We also accept trans­la­tions, if they resem­ble recent movies. We don’t enjoy read­ing flat prose, so right click every cou­ple words and use the syn­onym func­tion, pick­ing out a word with more let­ters. We want a writer who’s not afraid to dust off the first 10 chap­ters of their failed novel and send it off with­out both­er­ing to edit out the chap­ter breaks.” Semiannual/septuagenarian. Estab. 1882.
• Sto­ries for The Cath­ode Ray Review have been included in The Best Armen­ian Short Sto­ries, and have won the Puelit Sur­prise.
Needs: lit­er­ary, environmental/erotica, hybrid forms of recipes, and short short short shorts. Receives 100,000,000 unso­licited mss/month. We process art like poul­try. Accepts 6 mss/decade; 0/year. Pub­lishes 6–12 months after author’s death. This month is our theme issue, Writ­ing about writ­ing, espe­cially if you’ve never pub­lished any­thing. Recently pub­lished work by Greg Ari­ous, Ran­dolph McQueef, and Ray­mond Carver’s (Obituary)

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There is much more to the “list­ing” at bark.com…