july 5, 2019
2:26 p.m.
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Cenacle 108 is under way, lots of work this weekend on it . . . my show was recorded yesterday, & all is ready to go . . . tonight to see Phish at Fenway Park in Boston! With KD! Yowza!
july 20, 2019
11:41 p.m.
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Cenacle 108 is done & debuted at 7/13 Jellicle Literary Guild meeting . . . now into final proofing toward online & print publication . . . trying to do it timely this time . . . radio page is updated . . . trying few new weekends, but keeping my show's 36 shows a year . . . a sort of hybridg model . . . i like my show as it, need more time to write, but went to keep station viable . . . hoping this works . . . one more item: had my payjob mid-year review & it went really well . . . it's been a stress there for awhile, but I dug in to make it better, & some good results finally . . . room to breathe easier . . .
july 27, 2019
2:35 p.m.
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Cenacle 108 finishing was still happening when on Wednesday my employer of nearly 7 years, ERT Corp., laid me off, in a day, I was done from all the years I'd worked there, all the working relationships, all the good results, & I had barely fucking time to send out a goodbye email before my email account was closed, never even the end of the day for that . . . I'm still processing the pain of such a big & sudden loss, & having to reckon with job hunting again . . . it was a cruel end to a job I'd cared about for a long time . . . radio page is updated too . . . i'm just working fucking on despite . . .
august 3, 2019
12:57 p.m.
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Cenacle 108 final work eventually started up again this week, it was rough, I had to go into office Wednesday past to return things & get my stuff, fell down bloody hard coming out, fitting somehow . . . but at the MFA last night, for the Toulouse-Lautrec show, but also to have a look at "Dance at Bougival" (cover image of this site) . . . there's more to come & better if i make it so with my hard work, plus some luck . . . radio page is updated too . . . every working hour away from that bloody moment is a blow in the right direction . . .
august 17, 2019
12:05 p.m.
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Cenacle 108 final work is even closer to done, though job-hunting owned my sorry ass this week mostly . . . couple of live interviews, went hopefully, esp one in downtown Boston I covet . . . phone calls, emails, blah blah . . . keep it on next week till victory . . . radio page is updated . . . Woodstock is 50 years old this weekend! SpiritPlants Radio is playing its music all weekend!
august 24, 2019
12:19 p.m.
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Cenacle 108 final work was part of my priority this past week, even as I pushed & pushed to find work . . . both are closer to fruition, hope to call this August a month I kept on truckee'ing through to wins! Radio page is updated too, doing tihis show Saturday mornings a deep beautiful balm . . .
september 3, 2019
4:42 p.m.
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Cenacle 108 is posted to this site now, fight for it to finish through jobless summer. Contents include:
*** Earliest Childhood Memory thread from the ElectroLounge Forums
*** Feedback on Cenacle 107
*** New poetry by Sam Knot, Martina Newberry, Ace Boggess, Jimmy Heffernan, Gregory Kelly, Judih Haggai, Colin James, Joe Ciccone, Tom Sheehan, & Tamara Miles and John Echem
*** "The Crocodile King of Belize" [Prose] by Charlie Beyer
*** "Vines and Vignettes" [Travel Journal] by Nathan D. Horowitz
*** "Same Moon Shining" [Memoir] by Tamara Miles
*** "Poetry & Its Death" [Classic Prose] by Virginia Woolf
*** "Labyrinthine [a new fixtion]" by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Notes from New England" [Commentary] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Bags End Book #13: The Great Pillow Summit!" by Algernon Beagle
*** "My Adventures with the Trip Doctors" [Essay] by Michael Pollan
*** Graphic artwork by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
Also updated radio page, a few days late . . . new job is SOOOOOOOOOOO close, but not yet, waiting....
september 7, 2019
12:55 p.m.
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Cenacle 108 is done but for archives . . . print copies mailed as well as online distrib done . . . radio page updated for this weekend's show . . . & shit fuck piss another job blew me off, after saying I was due an offer letter . . . unknown people overruled & that was that . . . back into the hunt, again . . . keep going . . . oh, yes, also updated the Labyrinthine & Bags End News sections of this site . . . way more important, jobs don't want me fuck em. . .
september 14, 2019
3:22 p.m.
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Cenacle 108 is done & move on . . . radio page is updated too . . . job hunting week was rough, but had one in person interview, & another good one maybe pends . . . just trying to hang on, period.
september 28, 2019
8:01 p.m.
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Cenacle 108 lingers only in a few more promotions, nothing else, time for the next one . . . radio page is updated, back in action . . . Eurydice had a scare, is OK, and getting a bigger hard drive, whoot! I have a day-long job interview on Monday, complete with me giving a 30-minute presentation, many interviews, & a writing test, FUCK DO I WANT THIS JOB!
October 5, 2019
11:28 a.m.
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Cenacle 109 begins work in earnest today . . . radio page is updated for new weekend . . . didn't get that job though I gave it my fuck-all, & should have gotten it. . . told them so too . . . but now move on . . . cross the fucking finish line soon, have to . . .have to . . .
October 11, 2019
11:44 p.m.
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Cenacle 109 delayed some by job hunting, but this weekend for sure . . . radio page is updated . . . new job chances appear as I keep at it . . . but will be good to be at Cenacle for many hours for a long stretch. . .
November 9, 2019
1:21 p.m.
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Cenacle 109 done & debuted at the 11/2/2019 JG meeting, so now into proofing for print & online release, partway there . . . radio page is updated . . . oh, & near four months of looking for work began to end not long after that last entry above . . . took about three weeks for all the details to shake down, including a drug test & other checks . . . but all good, I start 11/18 . . . wow WOW . . . next week to get Cenacle & Scriptor Press Sampler & other much done . . . WOW!
November 16, 2019
11:43 p.m.
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Cenacle 109 is getting into distribution mode, radio page is updated, & new job starts Monday! :) Can I make it work this time? Really find a way for Art, body, & soul to succeed? Can I?
november 19, 2019
3:40 p.m.
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Cenacle 109 is posted to this site now, made it to the finish line. Contents include:
*** Post a Poem You Like thread from the ElectroLounge Forums
*** Feedback on Cenacle 108
*** New poetry by Sam Knot, Martina Newberry, Gregory Kelly, Judih Haggai, Colin James, Joe Ciccone, & John Echem
*** "States of Mercy" [Fiction] by Ace Boggess
*** "Jehrico and Chico and the Western Conservation Society, Inc." [Fiction] by Tom Sheehan
*** "The Crocodile King of Belize" [Prose] by Charlie Beyer
*** "Notes on Private Property & Civilization" [Prose] by Jimmy Heffernan
*** "Guapulo" [Travel Journal] by Nathan D. Horowitz
*** "Same Moon Shining" [Memoir] by Tamara Miles
*** Classic Poetry by Robert Frost
*** "Secret Joy Amongst These Times: The History of Scriptor Press, 1995 to the Present" by Raymond Soulard, Jr.:
*** "Labyrinthine [a new fixtion]" by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Notes from New England" [Commentary] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Bags End Book #14: Cackle! Cackle! Cackle! A Shenanigans Fantastika!" by Algernon Beagle
*** "Session Games People Play: A Manual for the Use of LSD" by Lisa Bieberman
*** Graphic artwork by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
Better than last issue for this, more timely . . . work not done yet, but getting there . . . flying to Virginia next week for job training . . . two days in, so far so good!
November 23, 2019
11:40 a.m.
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Radio page is updated, 16 years of SpiritPlants Radio! Started new job, traveling for training next week, so far so good . . . my bike needs big repairs so getting em going . . . Cenacle 109 is along the promotion/printing path . . . so all in there, going & getting along . . .
November 30, 2019
8:51 a.m.
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Radio page is updated, my show now being live recorded at 8 am, then starts the schedule at 11 am . . . job training in Virginia went well, good folks at the job, hoping it is a trajectory up & up after a long decline at the last one . . . Cenacle 109 still in the process of being finished . . . & getting my big into its repairs further this coming week, a plan in place . . . so in it right, moving, trying . . .
December 1, 2019
8:49 p.m.
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Added Many Musics, Tenth Series, #25-30:
*** Many Musics, X, xxv *** Self-Portraits, While Painting *** there are simple wants & then there are those that ever reign the blood . . .
*** Many Musics, X, xxvi *** Two Women Embracing *** even in the most fantastic of worlds, blood, emotion, loneliness . . .
*** Many Musics, X, xxvii *** My Lunatics *** a weird sanitarium, a place of desperate wanters . . .
*** Many Musics, X, xxvii *** Inquisition *** Francisco is a teacher, & his passions, & woes, inform the wisdoms of his teachings . . .
*** Many Musics, X, xxix *** Lumen Nature *** Francisco is a teacher, & his passions, & woes, inform the wisdoms of his teachings . . .
*** Many Musics, X, xxx *** In the Meantime / Some Other Time *** Francisco & his childhood servant, & the strange land he comes to, the beginning of a much bigger stranger trip . . . it gets much more hereon . . .
December 9, 2019
10:38 p.m.
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Radio page is updated, late . . . but done . . . Cenacle 109 getting printed, getting there . . . new job is going well so far, lot to learn, but better than jobless, & maybe better than what I had even with the last job by the end . . . hopefull . . .
December 14, 2019
3:40 p.m.
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Radio page is updated, late . . . but done . . . Cenacle 109 closer to done, but not yet . . . payjob is going well, tiring mentally but getting there . . . now also ito Cenacle 110 . . . next year Scriptor Press is 25 years old, mulling what to do for that a lot lately . . .
December 21, 2019
3:40 p.m.
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Radio page is updated, late again, but 36 shows again this year for Within's Within . . . Cenacle 109 is printed & mailed, just pending archives now . . . Cenacle 110 is under way . . . pay job going well, learning a lot . . doing OK right now after such a high & low year . . . here's to doing better in 2020!