Things have been relatively quiet over here on my personal blog since the big magazine project. I’m torn about whether to continue a personal blog with the magazine, or to just move everything over to the mag. Can’t iron out the details at the moment. However, I will definitely be redesigning this blog by way of moving it to a payed server and therefore having actual design control.
You can read a short post from the mag here:
http://receivingme.com/blog/?p=65
Also, on a sad note, Ivan Dixon passed away.
I am a HUGE Hogan’s Heroes fan and Dixon played radio expert “Kinchloe” or “Kinch” as he was often called. He was actually the only main member of the cast to leave the show (one year before it was canceled). He immediately started directing TV after that and had a very successful career in that field. Even as a kid I always found him a bit uncomfortable on Hogan’s Heroes, but he had this great warmth nonetheless and the show really needed that heart. He was also one of the go-to actors in the cast when they needed someone to perform a crazy German accent. They actually had him do it quite often and in those moments he really did make Bob Crane and some of the others look like amateurs (Crane’s German accent was terrible AND not funny). Maybe I’ll send him a radio message to see how his new digs are treating him. Or maybe I’ll just watch a few Hogan’s Heroes episodes and laugh. I am sorry he is gone.
Well, the mag is growing fast and furious. There is now more a sense of “layout” and I broke down and included “writers”. My friend Leslie from the much discussed Sub-Cranial Cavern was in on this from the beginning; here are the other two writers: (in no particular order– cause they both suck equally– I kid– no, they suck– no, I kid– no, seriously, they’re the best– no, seriously, they suck… I KID!)
Brett Harsch (Sports)– The man’s brain is so large he has trouble keeping his head up, even when he isn’t drinking.
Richard P. (Debauchery)– You know he’s the real deal when he doesn’t even use his last name!
other writers on the fringe:
Pates Baroni (Unhealthy Living?)– With a name like that you’d think he’d use a moniker.
Andrea Aguzzi (Italian Stallions)– I have asked him to write a regular column in Italian with no translation, because why not?
what the mag needs:
If I can get Ms. Li, The Times better watch out, ’cause I’m gunnin’ for them!
Here’s a very preliminary glimpse into the magazine I’m going to start sometime soon (in all my free time). It’s mostly just a bunch of placeholders. I haven’t decided on the name, but since I’m temporarily hosting the mag on my play’s website, at the moment I’m calling it Receiving Me? (a clever twist on my play’s name: Receiving Me).
enjoy the chaos (and the surprise!)
And now for something completely different…
Sirens
You are only ever as absurd as you seem when you open the thoughts’ foil stained cherry pies.
Your lashes jut out like the rivers gone through, holding that which seemed awkward in jobs of lust.
That’s why up until now the fighting of the soul found copy-paper would do just fine.
Reaching into quietness, zooming into pale hacks of godless shame, keeping left of the right, calling out for teatime.
Don’t go past me for vegetable mouth vibes, flawed furniture running through lackeys that won’t open the door.
Loose the wind for fear the whales might engulf the timepiece and crawl flames to the floor.Why is it that fools are shamed for foul balls, the way sightseeing dogs catch breaths in the air?
Kill for no one, two, or three reasoned ways that swing by on the ropes of copper toy dolls–
Those are mine.
Reasons won’t comprehend that composer, that escaped to the clouds of the night’s fire truck rule.
Siren’s flash bravely to disco as I go to shadow and sounds my mind echoes.
If that seemed unintended to fright the sands, might you forgive your hands?
Helpless they fall.
Greetings from the stick…
Dear Mam:
As you know, Bern-it-Up! LLC has been the official sponsor of The Sub-Cranial Cavern for The Cavern’s entire existence. This is a relationship that is agreeable and mutually beneficial. Bern-it-Up! is proud to count The Sub-Cranial Cavern employees among its most ardent and only readers. The company also enjoys supplying The Cavern with readership. Creatively, spiritually, and sexually all is well. Unfortunately, amidst this dreamy backdrop, Bern-it-Up! is facing a financial crises; that is to say, the company has yet to raise the substantial cash reserves necessary to support its own gargantuan waste of time. Although Bern-it-Up! appreciates that The Cavern is likewise accomplished in this realm, and greatly respects this shared mission, the company’s employee has unanimously voted to withhold funding for any secondary projects until such time as the employee has eaten. Though the decision was difficult and tragic, it “might taste good”. That being said, rest assured that measures have been taken to dissuade this type of aspiration in the future, including adopting a stylish new motto: “Don’t eat!” The company is confident that this is a vast improvement over the overly optimistic old motto: “Food!” This is a cost effective change as well, as the new company logo will simply be the old logo (with the hungry guy and the fruit basket) festooned with a big red “X”. It is this sort of ingenuity that keeps Bern-It-Up! in contention to make a donation of actual usable money (sorry about the Monopoly thing) sometime in the not so distant future, or at least before we transfer over to the DNA swap currency system. As, no doubt, The Cavern has often heard: patience, indulgence, and hallucination are the keys to any good Bern-it-Up! contractual relationship.
Though financial support may be lacking, Bern-it-Up! offers its sincerest, warmest, and most heartfelt ________________, which we trust The Cavern will be able to imagine with the utmost spirit, dignity, and patriotism.
Yours most evasively,
Berni Tup
Founder/Employee/Company
Bern-it-Up! LLC
P.S. To assist us in cutting business expenses further, please photocopy this letter and deliver it to yourself at the beginning of each month.
If you read the post below, then you already know why I redesigned the site (again)…
because I’m crazy!
And by the way– if you haven’t read it, it no longer makes any sense!
Just found out that those of you using low screen resolutions cannot see the wonderful sidebars that should be visible on the right-hand side of my blog. You low-resolutionites will only see these sidebars if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page… how convenient! For those using higher screen resolutions minimize your window to see this crappy effect. I cannot edit this, as I have no control over this !@#!@$!$#@%!$% blog! Guess what that means?… Yes, I will be moving again… AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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