Soulard’s Online Notebook 2011
january 8, 2011
12:25 a.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
well, well, here is the first notebook entry for this site for 2011, a sci-fi sounding year for certain . . . updated the radio page for the first new show of the year . . . also updated the Labyrinthine PDF document for the most recently published pages . . . it's late, tired, but here's to the new year, & what possibles it contains, all sorts of glints, imaginable & otherwise . . . more soon . . .
january 14, 2011
6:01 p.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
sick all week, about all i could really get done was prepping for the radio weekend, which is indeed prepped . . . sick & job hunting & somehow clarity in just laid up on back, sleeping poorly, thinking . . . perhaps something good to come of all this . . . if i write it in word & deed . . .
january 22, 2011
1:17 a.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
updated radio page, nearing 12th anniversary of radio show, next weekend as a matter o' fact . . . getting well, & sign of that is that I finally assembled for print distribution Cenacle 76 & World's Window, & off they went by mail . . . so 2010's business is pretty close to done, & 2011's most eager to more fully commence . . . some server news too, but I'll save that for next time . . . still job hunting, Boston's snows hit hard, yet for all I am grateful & glad to be in New England tonight . . .
january 23, 2011
6:39 p.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
KD & I did a lot of site work this weekend, as follows: the Cenacles, RaiBooks, Samplers, & the Burning Man Books have been moved from yage.net to the Scriptor Press server . . . the Notebooks section links, including the archives page, has been updated . . . & I did my annual review of the Psychedelics links, Literary links, & News links pages . . . for the first, updated the Peanuts link, the SpiritPlants Radio link, & the Hippyland link, & deleted Yahooka, Marihemp, Fusion Anomoly, & Yage. net . . . for the second, deleted Blue Moon Review, & added Out Loud Mike . . . for the last, updated the Indy Media link, the ZNet link, & deleted the Keith Olbermann link (he ended his show recently) . . . so the site's necessary annual work, & some needed additional work, is done . . . more soon . . .
january 29, 2011
10:00 p.m.
dunkin donuts at union square
somerville, massachusetts
this weekend my radio show's 12th anniversary occurs . . . the show is broadcast, will be on again tomorrow, & occasionally thereafter . . . long time since i did an anniversary show in the boston area . . . two things . . . gratefulness . . . & healing is hereon . . .
february 4, 2011
4:36 p.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
updated radio page to add last week's show to list of archived shows, off this week from radio, needed after a four-week run . . . intend more three-week runs hereon when possible . . . job hunt goes on . . . i have my better moments these days & worse . . . it's hard to keep a steady hand on the wheel all the time . . . i can only hope for luck, work for good result, and ask the Universe: please let me land somewhere good soon with my feet on the ground, ready to roll on full steam . . . more soon . . .
february 11, 2011
3:12 p.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
updated radio page for the coming weekend's show . . . job hunting still, one nibble but no interview yet, waiting . . . working on various writing projects & press projects that have long waited their turn . . . nothing notable yet, but soon . . .
february 18, 2011
10:03 p.m.
gourmet market
cambridge, massachusetts
updated radio page for the coming weekend's show . . . several job nibbles now, but not yet real, just fucking-maybes . . . of more interest is that I've begun in earnest the new Scriptor Press Sampler, first press publication of 2011, be done early March, I am betting . . . biking more, working on writing & press more, maybe turning a better corner & hoping all good things follow from my efforts . . . I'll keep trying one way & another
february 25, 2011
10:06 p.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
updated radio page for the coming weekend's show . . . yearning for coming spring in tree branch & in my heart . . . this job hunt thing hurts . . .
march 4, 2011
8:27 p.m.
starbucks at arlington center
arlington, massachusetts
updated radio page for the coming weekend's show . . . & updated is Scriptor Press Sampler | 10 | 2008 Annual . . . long had some problems, this week needed fixing . . . also starting in on next Cenacle . . . time for the first issue of 2011 . . .
i worked hard as fuck off a deep, hard journey to make this week something good . . . and i did pretty well . . . it's a long road, i still don't have a job . . .
march 11, 2011
1:02 p.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
updated radio page for the coming weekend's show, first of five weekends in a row with new shows . . . also continued work on Scriptor Press Sampler | 12 | 2010 Annual, content all chosen, now it's time for a text edit & then page layout . . . Cenacle | 77 | April 2011 work is under way, starting to gather contributions . . . this month is when the press's work starts to get heavy again, & good on that . . .
i pushed harder into my job hunt this week, cleaning up email, & so finally writing to everyone who I've contacted in recent months . . . I don't know if the nibbles right now are real or not . . . I talk to people on the phone, I know I am sincere, my need is real, my offer genuine . . . what the person on the other end is all about, I just don't fucking know by a friendly bodiless voice . . . anyway, rock on . . .
march 18, 2011
8:40 p.m.
starbucks at davis square
somerville, massachusetts
replay on last entry: updated radio page for the coming weekend's show, second of five weekends in a row with new shows . . . also continued work on Scriptor Press Sampler | 12 | 2010 Annual, content all chosen, now it's time for a text edit & then page layout . . . Cenacle | 77 | April 2011 work is under way, starting to gather contributions . . .
i have an interview on monday for a full-time job in boston, first in-person interview i've had in don't-know-how-fucking-long . . . it looks promising . . . but consider me to be asking with all my heart, Universe, please make this the lucky break for which I've waited . . . this is plain asking . . .
march 26, 2011
10:02 a.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
again: updated radio page for the coming weekend's show, third of five weekends in a row with new shows . . . also continued work on Scriptor Press Sampler | 12 | 2010 Annual, content all chosen, now it's time for a text edit & then page layout . . . Cenacle | 77 | April 2011 work is under way, starting to gather contributions . . .
interview was alright, i did my best, feeling like a raggedy man walking into the glare of the lights, asking for help in the form of a job . . . hard these days not to equate my worth and lack of it with this process . . . but i am trying to be more aware of things, and believing choicelessly that my lucky break is very soon . . .
april 2, 2011
1:05 p.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
again, only one word change: updated radio page for the coming weekend's show, fourth of five weekends in a row with new shows . . . also continued work on Scriptor Press Sampler | 12 | 2010 Annual, content all chosen, now it's time for a text edit & then page layout . . . Cenacle | 77 | April 2011 work is under way, starting to gather contributions . . .
that said, or nearly all said again, i can also say that The ElectroLounge is 13 years old today, first anniversary celebrated me living in boston area since 2002, & in april of that year my mind was set on moving to oregon no matter what . . . so here I am, 9 years after that, those days, these days, the heady fucking mix of it all . . . grateful to be here, angry that i'm jobless still, hopeful things will work out better as time goes along, & the one idea I've heard of late that sticks is that free will is learned, earned, sounds like a good goal to me for awhile to come . . .
april 9, 2011
12:50 p.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
and finally: updated radio page for the coming weekend's show, fifth of five weekends in a row with new shows . . . also continued work on Scriptor Press Sampler | 12 | 2010 Annual, should be done in a few days at most . . . Cenacle | 77 | April 2011 work is under way, content in hand, now the push to get my own writing done for it . . .
job hunt dogs me on and on, but I am working on a plan I may start seeing to fruition on monday . . . important meeting that day . . . more soon on that . . .
> april 15, 2011
7:04 p.m.
starbucks at davis square
somerville, massachusetts
this weekend & next Encore Weekends for the radio, time to get Scriptor Press Sampler | 12 | 2010 Annual and Cenacle | 77 | April 2011 work done . . . next weekend is the first Jellicle Literary Guild meeting of 2011 . . . glad to have all of these long-time projects well under way again . . . & anyone tuning in the radio will hear the DJs from the past month or so, very good stuff all around . . .
my job hunt has taken, perhaps, a positive twist, as a meeting toward me managing an archives/website went very well . . . the catch? no funding in place yet to pay me . . . so for now I am working on the faith that it will come sooner than later, & this many months job hunt nightmare concluded . . . of course, till that happens, I am still job hunting . . . can't be stupid . . . hopeful but not stupid . . .
april 30, 2011
12:30 p.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
Cenacle | 77 | April 2011 work is done, save for a last weathered-eye scour of the text, then it will get fully distributed, what began last weekend at first Jellicle Literary Guild meeting of 2011 . . . a really good one which included our friend Victor V visiting from Oregon . . . the JG seems to have found its footing again, four times a year, aligned with new releases of The Cenacle . . . often enough to matter but not become a stressful burden . . . more than ever, it is a special event, & that's how I like it, carry on its history, & move along into new territory . . .
So close is Scriptor Press Sampler | 12 | 2010 Annual to being done, it's late, but it's close, & once it's out, I'm going to jack its distribution to levels not reached previously . . . Boston area is my canvas, though I will push it farther too . . . my plan is to print as many copies as I can, using old ink cartridges that have been taking up space . . . that will use them up & I'll be able to really go to town with distribution . . . this periodical was always intended for this purpose, it's time it happened . . .
Job hunt slowed while these things above happening, now it's time to hit the gas again . . . oh & my birthday came & went this week . . . May 4 is way more important to me, the date I started my journal back when . . . in sum, I'm still swinging . . . more soon . . .
may 7, 2011
11:50 a.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
radio is updated for this weekend's show, other work is just pending . . . may 4th initiative may help . . . more soon . . .
may 13, 2011
11:28 p.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
there was a fair amount that did not get done this week (radio update did, work on finishing new Cenacle is too long still at the dissemination stage), but in a way its most notable event for me was the very positive job interview I had by phone this morning . . . it may be my time to crawl from the jobless hole . . . & of course the wait to know one way or another, but I am hopeful, not dumb hopeful, just hopeful . . . please, Universe, let me fill this hole in my life so that the rest will benefit & I can do better by myself & the world again . . . I ask please & say thanks you . . .
may 21, 2011
8:39 p.m.
gourmet market at porter square
cambridge, massachusetts
tonight i can say here that i have scored work in the boston area, first time since spring 2002, when i was in heart-despair & no shape for anything much . . . i started on friday work as a contract project editor for a healthcare company . . . in short, i'll be leading a contracted team of writers to create content . . . the kind of work that might go on & on if it goes well . . . i am deeply grateful tonight not to be again bemoaning my jobless state . . . thank you, Universe . . .
And . . . here's The Cenacle #77 | April 2011 | 16th Anniversary Issue . . . out of the gate & ready to roll . . . Can it be really 16 years of this literature & arts journal? I suppose the numbers add up, but it still seems strange. This new issue features what amounts to an all-star cast of the periodical’s recent contributors . . . the contents include:
• Poetry by Joe Ciccone, Ric Amante, Tom Sheehan, Martina Newberry, Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor, & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
• Interview with Judih Haggai & new poems
• New fixtion by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
• New language essay by Ralph Emerson
• Letter on the death penalty by Jim Burke III
• Classic fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Psychedelics essay by Terence McKenna
• Photography by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
• From Soulard’s Notebooks commentary
• Notes from New England by Raymond Soulard Jr.
And also here's Scriptor Press Sampler #12 | 2010 Annual My thoughts this year are to distribute this periodical farther & wider than before, picking up the idea I had for it when it first began in 1999 . . . the contents of this new issue include:
• Poetry by Joe Ciccone, Ric Amante, Tom Sheehan, Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor, Martina Newberry, & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
• Fiction by G.C. Dillon & Horse Lampner, & fixtion by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
• Language essay by Ralph Emerson
• Letter by Jim Burke III
• Essay on Wilhelm Reich by Alex Smith
• Psychedelics essay by Dave King
• J.D. Salinger tribute by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
• Photography by Victor Vanek, & by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
And added are the Jellicle Literary Guild highlights for 12/18/2010 . . . these audio highlights include:
1. Raymond – JG’s 22nd Anniversary Meeting intro
2. Raymond – “Season of Lights” poem
3. KD reads Tom Robbins’ Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
4. Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor reads Tom Sheehan’s poetry
5. Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor – Gluten-Free Guerilla Cooking Book
6. Raymond with Catfish Rivers – “From Soulard’s Notebooks”
7. Raymond gives intro to Chris Gose’s World’s Window
8. Chris Gose – World’s Window (recording)
9. Ric Amante reads poetry from near South Station Boston (recording)
10. Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor reads from Toni Morrison’s Beloved
11. Group Jam with Tibetan Book of the Dead, House of Leaves, and Beloved
12. Raymond reads from JD Salinger’s “For Esmé—With Love & Squalor”
13. Raymond – Memorial Tribute for JD Salinger
14. JBIII & Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor – Neil Young medley
15. Proxy reading for David Hartley of William Burroughs “A Thanksgiving Prayer”
16. Martina Newberry – “Bad Manners” (video)
17. Judih Haggai – Poetry (video)
18. Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor – Gluten-Free Guerilla Cooking Book (continued)
19. Raymond – Labyrinthine (excerpts)
Also, just added three shows from October 2008 to the radio archives . . . updated the Labyrinthine link . . . added Seventh Series #1-15 poems to the Many Musics collection . . . dream poems, of a sorts . . .
Lastly (yes, I promise), I’ve decided to continue the Burning Man Books series under the name TransArtBooks (funny little word play there) & find a new venue to continue the No Borders Bookstore aspect of this project. It’s taken awhile for me to get re-settled in Boston, & so the first TAB titles will not be coming until the summer of 2012. . . .
may 28, 2011
1:34 p.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
updated radio page, a bit late, for this weekend's show . . . big news is started new job . . . all day training tough & also a return to the sometimes airless, bloodless world of the corporation . . . i intend to be tough enough to make it good . . . i'll report in again soon . . .
june 5, 2011
11:53 a.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
updated radio page, a bit late, again, for this weekend's show . . . all week online training for job, it's been getting better as it's gone on, next test is going from training to doing the week this coming week . . . but hopeful . . . very late still working on mailing Cenacle 77 to contributors, that soon done . . . begun work on next issue . . . it's going to be a tight time frame, only three weeks left till it is to debut . . . but working it . . . feeling better overall right now . . . hoping hard work & some good luck hold for a solid path a fair while . . .
june 11, 2011
8:44 p.m.
gourmet market at porter square
cambridge, massachusetts
updated radio page, a bit late, more so, for this weekend's show . . . this week was a long one, full-time work can be a mind fuck . . . but here I sit, knowing a paycheck is due . . . it's what it is, pay for the rest, the better hours, unchained ones . . . so now to me to do with these better hours again . . .
june 17, 2011
10:32 p.m.
home
arlington, massachusetts
closer & closer to done with Cenacle | 78 | June 2011, due to debut at the Jellicle Literary Guild meeting next weekend . . . it's coming along well so far, has promise of being quite good . . . updated radio show, three Encore Weekends in a row, for a break . . . another long week of work . . . but paychecks coming soon in a shitty economy . . . nights & weekends my own . . . it will do for awhile, quite well . . .
june 30, 2011
7:34 p.m.
library
arlington, massachusetts
here goes: Cenacle | 78 | June 2011, comes in just under the wire: contents:
• “Travel to Belize” journal by Charlie Beyer
• Poetry by Joe Ciccone, Ric Amante, Tom Sheehan, Martina Newberry, Judih Haggai, & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
• New fixtion by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
• Classic essay by Henry David Thoreau
• “My Acid Trip with Groucho” by Paul Krassner
• Photography by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
• From Soulard’s Notebooks commentary
• Notes from New England by Raymond Soulard Jr.
Also added is the 4/23/2011 Jellicle Literary Guild highlights:
1. Raymond – Introduction to Meeting #116
2. JBIII – Poem in old Cenacle
3. Ric Amante – Poems in old Cenacles
4. Raymond – Introduction to April 2011 Cenacle
5. JBIII discusses his Death Penalty essay in April 2011 Cenacle
6. JBIII – The Who’s “Who Are You?”
7. Victor Vanek – Billy Collins' poems
8. Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor – Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
9. Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor – Poetry
10. Ric Amante – Poetry
11. KD – Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book
12. JBIII & Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor – CSNY’s “4 & 20”
13. RS – Many Musics
14. Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor – Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn
15. Judih Haggai – Poetry video
16. AbandonView – “FELT” video
17. Martina Newberry – Poetry video
18. Ric Amante – Poetry
19. RS proxy reads W. S. Merwin for Joe Ciccone
20. RS proxy reads Rainer Maria Rilke for Ralph Emerson
21. Ric Amante – Rilke’s “Morning Prayer”
22. Ric Amante – Rilke’s writing about “Aliens”
23. Ric Amante – Poetry
24. RS reads Tom Sheehan’s poetry
25. Ric Amante – Poetry
26. Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor – Poetry
27. JBIII – Closing Song: The Beatles’ “Get Back”
lastly, updated the PDF file here for my fixtion Labyrinthine, complete through part 5 . . . payjob going ok, & that's a good thing for a stretch . . . no major projects this summer, first time since 1998, oddly when this site debuted . . . but plenty of work on a smaller scale, & more writing by any means necessary . . . radio back next weekend after hiatus . . . more of that & other things soon . . .
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