Soulard's Online Notebook 2014
july 23, 2014
5:35 p.m.
subway cafe across from boston common
boston, massachusetts
past several weeks without eurydice, my beloved macbook pro, i've fallen behind on work, now slowly catching up . . . radio page is now updated through last weekend's show and archives . . . the next entry will contain more updates, but this for now . . .
july 24, 2014
7:45 p.m.
back deck
milkrose, massachusetts
A double-release this time around: the new issue of The Cenacle, & the new Scriptor Press Sampler Annual. Both feature a wonderful array of writers & artists, as well as much graphical splendor. Greatly hoping you read & enjoy what is offered here.
The Cenacle's contents include:
*** New poetry by Raymond Soulard, Jr., Judih Haggai, Reneé Schamberger, Joe Ciccone, Martina Newberry, Victor Vanek, & Joe Coleman
*** New fiction by Tom Sheehan
*** "Paleo Redemption" [Travel Journal] by Charlie Beyer
*** "End the Ban on Psychoactive Drug Research" [Editorial] by the Editors of Scientific American
*** "Faceless in the Dark" [Travel Journal] by Nathan D. Horowitz
*** Labyrinthine [new fixtion] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** Notes from New England [Commentary] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** Classic poetry by Bashō
*** Graphic artwork by Joe Coleman
*** Graphic artwork by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
The Sampler's contents include:
*** Poetry by Raymond Soulard, Jr., Judih Haggai, Ric Amante, Joe Ciccone, Joe Coleman, Martina Newberry, Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor, Christopher Wick, & Tom Sheehan
*** Essays by Abraham Hafiz Rodriguez, Charlie Beyer, Nick Meador, & Ralph Emerson
*** Travel journal by Nathan D. Horowitz
*** Fiction by G.C. Dillon
*** Labyrinthine [new fixtion] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** Dream Raps by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** Graphic artwork by Joe Coleman
*** Graphic artwork by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
My fixtion Labyrinthine is also updated . . . now just got to get the print issues of the above out the door . . . new summer beckons new work . . . Burning Man Books 2015 pends with all sorts of No Borders Free Bookstore goodies!
july 26, 2014
11:38 p.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
updated radio page, while show is on, so better, been working my sorry ass off to catch up work & push ahead . . . it's summer again, when I stumble & stagger but brain seems also to be cooking all manner of possibilities up, if allowed time & room on the heat . . .
august 14, 2014
5:53 p.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
updated radio page, past halfway through the next week, struggling sometimes of late to be prompt with the work in its entirety . . . but the show went on, on time, and that's dandy . . . still trying to get Sampler and Cenacle out the door . . . but close . . . and reading old Americus notebooks, so far '89 to '93 . . . digging deep back, it turns out this is pleasurable and i'm remembering a lot of good hours, the ones when i wrote of course . . .
august 17, 2014
12:53 a.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
updated radio page, show still going, not the ideal, but I do struggle sometimes, then I do my work, dig deep the fuck into it, and it feels both good and right, whatever it all means, good and right . . .
august 24, 2014
12:20 a.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
updated radio page, show still going, went on air fine then tech issues, so 30 min late, but on, and going, and i wrote all night in harvard square, au bon pain cafe, courtyard, my table, it was gorgeous to do . . . .
august 31, 2014
8:45 p.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
updated radio page, a little late . . . four shows in a row now finished . . . now for a time spent up in Maine, ocean, writing, out of the routine . . .
september 18, 2014
7:34 p.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
updated radio page, days late, been struggling some this summer . . . then I read my notebooks, old or recent, and I calm . . . as though a salve . . . I don't know why . . . but it happens over and over like a glittering clue . . .
september 24, 2014
8:51 a.m.
dunkin donuts near sullivan square
boston, massachusetts
updated radio page, not as bad but still late . . . radio's show number 500, threw in bits from shows 100, 200, 300, & 400 . . . glad to have hit that number and more glad that number 501 is in just a few days . . .
september 28, 2014
7:15 a.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
updated radio page, not so late this time . . . writing a lot lately . . . yet can do so much better in all . . .
october 11, 2014
9:14 p.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
updated radio page, on time this time . . . working on next issue, working on a lot of stuff . . . like coach says, one good day then the next . . .
october 22, 2014
5:31 p.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
radio page is updated, back's been hurting, throw it out every so often . . . been sad over friends that have come & gone over the years . . . but I have KD & others I value still . . l & my pen is still moving fine . . . so carry on or be carried off!
november 10, 2014
10:37 p.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
radio page is updated, bit late, glad to be back after two weekends off . . . & here comes as well The Cenacle | 90 | October 2014 . . . contents include:
*** New poetry by Raymond Soulard, Jr., Judih Haggai, Tom Sheehan, Victor Vanek, & Joe Coleman
*** "Paleo Redemption" [Travel Journal] by Charlie Beyer
*** "The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis" [Essay] by Patrick Hruby
*** "Visitations" [Travel Journal] by Nathan D. Horowitz
*** Labyrinthine [new fixtion] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** Notes from New England [Commentary] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** Classic fiction by Sherwood Anderson
*** Photo Gallery by Catfish Rivers
*** Graphic artwork by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
It's a really good issue, a lot of hard work to make it happen, I was writing all summer in preparation for it . . . one more to go for this year . . .
november 15, 2014
11:33 p.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
once again radio page is updated, only 33 min into show, and this is the anniversary of 1981 party when J and I talked about dating, when I thought the life I had had up to then as a teenager, pretty much all failure, was going to change, and I was wrong. And trying to look back this many years with anything like understanding is hard . . . I was a sad case then, and maybe too much for any girl not madly in love with me to handle . . . she loved me, just not that much . . . is this understanding?
november 23, 2014
10:10 p.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
updated radio page, this weekend is my show's 11th anniverary on SpiritPlants Radio, and so glad the chance came, as back in 2003 my show had been on hiatus for over a year, and me in Connecticut with little prospects for local possibilities . . . now I can help others get on air too . . . tis good, and I am very grateful . . .
november 29, 2014
11:28 p.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
how 'bout this, updating radio page & my show is still on air, hardly deep into it . . . working on getting last issue of The Cenacle mailed out & next issue written . . . funny in a way . . . it's cold again in New England . . . part of the deal here . . .
december 6, 2014
11:30 p.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
again, updating almost timely for radio show, & The Cenacle finally mailed out . . . & much of writing for next issue is done . . . so roll the fuck hard into the remain of year, get some good work in . . .
december 13, 2014
11:45 p.m.
home
milkrose, massachusetts
seem to make a practice of late of updating my radio show in its first live hour . . . ah well, last show of year and a good break needed . . . for. . . The Cenacle . . . working furiously on it today and up till the 27th when JG meeting happens, 26th anniversarey meeting . . . sometimes this year I just ate my own shit, but now always, now thinking: commit to what you have, commit to what you do, commit to who you are . . .
december 31, 2014
9:49 p.m.
bungalow A
ogunquit, maine
On the cusp of the New Year, here is the new issue of The Cenacle! It features many of the regular contributors to the journal—-including the finale of Charlie Beyer's excellent short book, Paleo Redemption.
The new issue's contents include:
*** New poetry by Raymond Soulard, Jr., Judih Haggai, Tom Sheehan, & Joe Coleman
*** Paleo Redemption [Travel Journal] by Charlie Beyer
*** "Levi's Genes" [Travel Journal] by Nathan D. Horowitz
*** Labyrinthine [new fixtion] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** Notes from New England [Commentary] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Babylon, Revisited" [Classic Fiction] by F. Scott Fitzgerald
*** "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA, Mind Control, & LSD" [Essay] by John D. Marks
*** Graphic artwork by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
I'm writing from the hotel room we've stayed at for three new year's times, each celebrating the year & our wedding anniversary . . . 9 years this time, wow . . . this week, off from work, i proofread like the dickens to get the journal ready to put online here, and then wrote and wrote to get new work started after publishing work stretch . . . view of the ocean out this window, quite delighted this moment, I have Art, a partner, my health, a home, a job, & there are loved ones past & to come to think of . . . looking with anticipation toward 2015 & the good I wish to cause in it . . . here goes!
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