What about being a person in a town?

[sovay]

The afternoon's mail brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #76, containing my poem "The Green Room." I have referred to it as "a sort of depressed rural Inanna thing," but it was my first poem and almost my first piece of non-film writing since January. A fragment of it goes back fourteen years. The genre-spanning theme of eat and breathe encompasses stories and poems by Romie Stott, Jennifer Crow, Meep Matsushima, and more, with equally wide-ranging black-and-white art by John and Flo Stanton. The website remains temporary, but the 'zine is an institution. Subscribe, submit, check it out.

spatch's work-related COVID scare has resolved in favor of the far preferable outcome of his not having COVID. Allowing for the necessity of phone tag, I was surprised by the ease with which I was able to get him scheduled for a PCR, as opposed to the last scare where even a confirmed contact wasn't enough without symptoms; I can't help but wonder if it goes with the reactivation of the free government-issued tests, even as the pandemic is officially supposed to be post-. I am still getting over the miserable cold, which means I am no longer running a fever over a hundred and coughing the color of lemons, but I could stand to feel a lot more percent.

Please enjoy this spectacular pop-art preventive maintenance pin-up by Will Eisner.

Comments

[rushthatspeaks]

For a moment I thought Will Eisner was going to be trying to prevent maintenance of pinups, which seemed unlikely. I think it works better this way. (Her clothes are the exact colors of my mother's wedding dress. I am neither joking nor exaggerating. 1968, that would be.)

[sovay]

(Her clothes are the exact colors of my mother's wedding dress. I am neither joking nor exaggerating. 1968, that would be.)

I had no reason to doubt you. That's a hell of a zeitgeist.

[kathmandu]

Ack for the scare, yay for the NOT having Covid!

[sovay]

Ack for the scare, yay for the NOT having Covid!

Thank you! Yesterday was highly excited.

[minoanmiss]

sends further imprvement vibes

[sovay]

sends further imprvement vibes

*hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, I hope you have a lot more per cents soon! ♥ I'm glad the COVID scare did turn out to be a scare only, at least - and congrats on the poem!

[sovay]

I'm glad the COVID scare did turn out to be a scare only, at least - and congrats on the poem!

Thank you!

[asakiyume]

Yay, Not One of Us! Always a pleasure.

spatch's work-related COVID scare has resolved in favor of the far preferable outcome of his not having COVID. --Excellent. Continue in this vein!!

[sovay]

Yay, Not One of Us! Always a pleasure.

Thank you! It is.

--Excellent. Continue in this vein!!

We're working so hard on it!

[ada_hoffmann]

Congrats on the new poem! "Depressed rural Innanna thing" sounds excellent. And also congrats on not having COVID.

[sovay]

Congrats on the new poem! "Depressed rural Innanna thing" sounds excellent. And also congrats on not having COVID.

Thank you on both fronts!

[konstantya]

Hooray for no Covid, hooray for being on the mend (even if you still don't feel great just yet), and dang, that is one hell of a pin-up!

[sovay]

Hooray for no Covid, hooray for being on the mend (even if you still don't feel great just yet), and dang, that is one hell of a pin-up!

Thank you! (I can take no credit for the pin-up, but I'm so impressed by it.)

[labingi]

Congratulations on the publication!

[sovay]

Congratulations on the publication!

Thank you!