2007 Roundup
At year’s end, it’s customary to reflect on the year and ask, “so what?” Here are some highlights, from the blog and offline. Life offline has been work-intensive: I moved to a new apartment, settled into a new job as a web developer for a non-profit, and I finally began to learn my way around Baltimore. The blog has been quieter this year than it was last year, but there were a few interesting moments.
People seemed to enjoy reading my plan for circulating manuscripts and submissions in order to get published. I should admit, I haven’t shown much follow-through in that department, but the groundwork is there.
Another favorite entry this year was a sketch for an essay about spoken word, hip-hop, and the like. I broke that whole realm of things into three simple… um, categories. Maybe it’s the hypocrisy that drew a crowd? That essay never really went anywhere, or maybe I just cut to the chase, and this year I began creating spoken word recordings. The first was an audio spoken word recording. The second, later in the year, was a video spoken word performance produced on internet tv.
Somebody asked me at a Chrsitmas party the other day: “Weren’t you working on a book?” My answer was “It isn’t a book anymore.” With advice from an editor, I’ve decided to cut the poetry manuscript into individual poems (minus several, plus revisions). I’ll submit those individual poems to whichever publications seem to fit. I decided not to self-publish the book of poems.
Instead, I decided to put out a new zine. The first issue should be ready in a week or so.
Other, random thoughts about the year:
- I thought about Grad School. This year I should work on getting a decent portfolio.
- I didn’t think about literary hypertext. I would like to try making a new one, though.
- I thought about, but never wrote much about physicalism. I did write a little bit about imagery. The zine should show some follow-up to all of this, I hope.
- Speaking of zines, Punk Planet will be sadly missed.
- In the work world, the writing on the wall says I’m a programmer. It’s time to get out the spray paint and make some editorial corrections.
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