Signing On

So I’m new to the blogosphere, bloggery, schlock bogfest, whatever you like ( it is the 21st century after all)…

And so are we! (THIS IS AN EDITOR IN CHIEF SPEAKING!! CAN ANYONE HEAR ME?!)

Yes you can and are, so here’s some news… 57 is almost done, and we are accepting pre-orders, but won’t be printing/shipping until January. We’re going to spice up blogland with our Tucson funk quicker, stronger, and more pungent than ever.

Our journal has historically mingled the trashy the with the classy, new and old, academic and streetwise, quiet and loud (intellectual), whatever. We toyed with the idea of having a rap celebrity haiku deathmatch, but realized that it would take a great deal of time and we are grad students. Grad students, as you may well be one or were one or know about them, are either too lazy, busy, manic or all of them + drugs depending on who you’re talking about, to accomplish a feat of this proportion.

We got about 900 submissions in the last 6 months and railed out about 885 rejections, denials, “we can’t accept your work at this time”, whatever you’d like to call them. We’re happy with what we’ve got because what we’ve got we think is good. No, better than good, it might save the children and children’s children from being, as John Berryman put it, heavy bored.

My boy Andrew, who is not a boy at all, but a full grown man with a beard, will be blog-intern for the next 6 months and we’re excited to see how things shape up, roll out, fold in, bust. Yes, we’re hoping for a blogfest of epic proportions and we would like you to hold our hands and take part, both here and in print.

Yours faithfully,

Co-Editor-In-Chief

Jake Levine  (hailing from Tucson where we’re still kicking it poolside for Christmas)

photo credit: Jamison Crabtree