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e and even chagrin blogs with literary intent haven t blossomed and spread in anything like the profusion i expected indeed in the past couple of years we seem to have lost more than we ve gained i ve been able to find even fewer active lit blogs than i could three years ago when they seemed to be everywhere and about to explode into an important segment of the blogosphere i m not sure why this is blogs are just another form not inherently hostile to literary aspirations as dan roentsch has certainly proved yet his is the only fiction blog that aspires to the form that i ve found and one of the very few still active that continues to attract a large readership in the beginning i put it down to blogging s newness assuming that lots of comic and fiction writers just didn t know about it yet but three years have passed since i started doing this and everybody now knows what blogs are even if they don t read them so ignorance is no longer an excuse is there something about the form that turns writers off hardly possible i used to edit a small lit zine back in the day and even though we paid nothing were expressly looking for off track stories and had at our height fewer than 300 subscribers we received hundreds of submissions a month most were over written but many were short shorts little more than prose poems larger zines got thousands of submissions a month were literally buried under them to the point that they had to declare a moratorium sending manuscripts back unopened for 6 months out of the year you d think such a rich and varied subculture frustrated by standard publishing mechanisms would have gravitated to self publishing which is after all what blogging is all about in droves yet it hasn t happened read the rest of this entry comments 4 comments categories essays fiction writing catching up 2 the journals 10 06 2007 of the folks still working at the old stand some have improved some have deteriorated and some are well exactly what they ve always been in the first category is jen balderama of nonsense verse original review is here although she doesn t post often when she does she rarely misses her writing has deepened significantly in the past couple of years it seems to me this is from a post about writing f or those who have fallen in love with an art walking away or being forced away creates an irreparable wound not unlike that of the amputee haunted by phantom pain the limb is gone and the amputee no matter the prosthetics applied will never be what she once was whole the artist severed from her art may not suffer in the same physical sense the pain may not be located in a specific place but the ghostly ache is there and always will be this all may sound overly dramatic and yet the comparison is apt if one is to comprehend the difficulty with which the artist having lost one art can even begin to consider picking up and moving on to the next the artist is haunted by pain indeed i don t have her chops but i ve been writing since i learned how and there was a period when i quit for 20 years i couldn t sell anything nobody but me seemed to like to read what i was writing and my relationships were all endangered by the time i gave to it what s the point i asked myself and answer came there none so i just stopped for the next two decades i felt just the way she described as if a part of my body was missing it took me years to figure out why i was so miserable and at that point i frankly didn t care if i never sold a damn thing i just wanted the pain to stop and it did for a real writer as opposed to an author no matter how hard it is to write not writing is harder and more painful her post catches beautifully the cast of mind the shifts of allegiance the doubts and the devils it s all there it s all true and she manages to describe it without whining or complaint now that s talent read the rest of this entry comments leave a comment categories updates catching up the comics 5 06 2007 as has become our habit when we re animate litblogs yet again monotonous isn t it we will begin our newest round of documenting literary blogs by returning to the sites we ve already reviewed and marking any changes and believe me have there been changes some are wonderful even inspiring others are downright depressing like the number of brilliant bloggers we ve lost in this past year the comic blogosphere has been particularly hard hit two of the three funniest net exclusive bloggers have vanished without a trace chris who was responsible for the satiric genius and laff out loud gut busting of the fafblog hasn t written a post since july of 06 that doesn t mean he and his crew of space light alien cookies won t be back at some point after all if shakespeare can return more later there s hope for everybody but it s not looking good one longs to hear giblets defend libby while fafnir taste tests various poptart frostings and then goes into paroxysms of delight over the comparatively high food value of the cardboard container they came in brad delong called fafblog a national treasure and somebody has clearly looted it now who could that be admittedly a poor second but amusing in its own right for totally different reasons is an homage blog no i m not kidding called i miss fafblog spot by a group of otherwise bloggers who have appropriated fafblog s template in toto and attempted to foist upon it their own version of wit sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn t from a post of awards for well i m not exactly sure what they re for read the rest of this entry comments leave a comment categories humor updates don t reject rejectomorph 31 05 2007 first published aug 21 05 rejectomorph is the baby of one flying_blind otherwise known as joe a personal journal type blog rejectomorph is all but free of posts about politics or world events or sports but it also doesn t descend to the all too common depths of i got up this morning and had eggs for breakfast personal blogging that clogs a reader s arteries as surely as the writer is clogging his her own when he wants to joe has a wicked sense of humor expressed in a laid back i m having fun with this and i don t care who knows it way that can be absolutely charming witness his info page wherein he explains what his journal is about and why the identity of the person who used to have it joe s alter ego sluggo is still active bio well look at this i ve had the new computer for several months and i still haven t gotten around to getting rid of sluggo s message here now that it comes down to it i m reluctant to make it go away sluggo himself hasn t gone away either he s still over there in his corner i fire him up once in a while when it s cold enough true he may be the most evil of computers but i still have hope for his redemption if i replace his overheating amd cpu he might still be a serviceable backup machine besides if i have him destroyed his ghost might return from the digital beyond and haunt me i think i ll let both sluggo and his rude words stay for a while hello i m sluggo crasher frankenclone the computer assigned to destroy the bio unit known variously as flying_blind rejectomorph or joe hah like that last one is a real name so far i d say i m doing a pretty good job i have increased his blood pressure at least 30 caused him to lose a great deal of sleep which makes his judgement even poorer that it was before i arrived and i m pretty sure he is developing ulcers if all goes well and how could it not given my natural superiority he will soon be losing his hair disgusting stuff developing carpel tunnel syndrome from his vain attempts to control me through my keyboard suffer diminished eyesight from staring at my screen and endure frequent hallucinations which eventually will drive him to indulge in self destructive behavior yes all is going according to the great plan hail gates sluggo read the rest of this entry comments 2 comments categories essays humor satire poetry outafocus isn t 30 05 2007 first published april 6 05 california photographer susan burnstine s photoblog outafocus is uniquely intriguing susan has a real feel for the different characters of various types of cameras and the kinds of pictures they take unlike other photoblogs which are catalogued by types of pictures or the dates the pictures were taken susan has built galleries around which kind of camera she used from a mamiya 645 medium format to the infamous diana toy cameras with plastic lenses of which she owns many so many in fact that this week she ll be raffling off three of them each gallery has a separate identity and its own individual look but the dianas are by far her favorite of the 60 photographs currently living in her galleries more than half 33 were taken with a diana the soft plastic lens tends to blur the picture and susan uses that hazy blur to produce photos that seem to have been taken of a dream or a memory pictures like this in the distance have an unreal reality or perhaps a real unreality that a bit like those dark adult comic books sin city say belongs to a world similar to the one we live in but slightly skewed softer around even its harder edges than the one we live in a world where memories are stripped to their essence the form of the man in the picture above isn t the form of a specific man but of generic man of man sitting by the vastness of an ocean dreaming dreaming of what perhaps everything perhaps nothing perhaps both at once it s an iconic photograph out of time or real space of an alternate universe parallel to our own we recognize it alright but why read the rest of this entry comments 2 comments categories photography raymi the minx 29 05 2007 originally published feb 21 05 minx mingks n a cheeky or mischievous girl the oxford american dictionary and raymi the minx is all of that while you re at it you can add irreverent scatological self obsessed insecure arrogant discumbobulated opinionated compassionate intense distant exhibitionist funny hip and clueless sometimes all at once that will do for a start but understand it s just a start raymi is one complicated individual but then so aren t we all and isn t that the point raymi s blog which today is called either soon i will hit the ground and explode or when the peanuts wept she changes the title several times a week and the title on the banner is often different from the title rendered by your browser is a mulligan s stew of stream of conscienceness patter that veers from the unexceptional to the trivial to the poetic post to post raymi writes about everything and nothing in a semi free form ramble that sometimes sounds like kerouac on crack and at other times like a whiny teenager afflicted with petty obsessions and neural diarrhea that most of it is tongue in cheek so to speak saves the worst of it from maudlin excess and lifts the best of it into walt whitman charles bukowski land where it twinkles like a pearl necklace in a junkyard read the rest of this entry comments 7 comments categories essays humor journals photography lumpenblog redux the saga concludes 28 05 2007 first published feb 16 05 this is the new home of litblogs welcome to a new season of finding interesting stuff i know this idea has been asleep for awhile and i don t honestly know how long it will stay awake but for as long as i can keep it up i ll bring you new and not so new sites that are playing with the blog as art form to start with the impetus for reviving litblogs is the news that dan roentsch has brought the current lumpenblog storyline to a well startling and hilarious conclusion a conclusion that includes a blimp yes blimp is what i said and blimp is what i meant and the mysterious mickey snaketail i won t give it away but it seems nefertiti snorkjutt and desmond cork have hunted down the infamous bruce and lola otherwise known as the babecat with the help of a team of detectives and the two of them are um rocking a well dumpster read the rest of this entry comments leave a comment categories humor satire updates a view from a broad don t mess with the kid 5 10 2004 maybe my taste runs to the outrageous to people who say what they mean the way they want to say it and let the chips fall where they may a view from a broad is exactly what the title implies the views of a self styled broad who takes no shit and no prisoners ginmar a soldier serving in iraq is profane witty and profound by turns sometimes all at once she s an unrepentant uncompromising unapologetic feminist and proud of it she rants raves sputters snarls snipes and shivs many of her posts she does not suffer fools gladly or at all instead she makes them suffer and is it ever fun to watch her do it the following excerpts are all taken from the most recent page of avfab unfortunately she s at livejournal which doesn t link separate posts you ll have to scroll down the page to find the rest of each entry but that s ok on the way down you ll find a lot of great stuff i can t reprint on the day her top sargeant had something to show her a relatively mild one to begin with sunday october 3 2004 top came and got me this morning and dragged me out into the courtyard ginmar cmere he said urgently what this is important i gotta show you something the something turned out to be a frog living near the pool uh yeah i looked at the frog he looked at the frog then he looked at me significantly it s a frog he pointed out i noticed that i m afriad of frogs so to recap for those of you in the cheap seats my 1st sgt the cop from new orleans the guy who regularly does stupid and crazy shit and gets me to take his back while doing it the guy who thrives in this environment he s afraid of an animal that weighs approximately two ounces and which makes politicians look attractive read the rest of this entry comments 4 comments categories journals a plan for handling the milblogs 12 09 2004 since cbftw s highly regarded by me as well as others blog my war fear and loathing in iraq was shut down by himself it now appears questions have been raised about how the military is handling milblogs are they being too heavy handed if opsec operational security is the issue shouldn t they just shut all the blogs down rather than take the risk of someone saying something that endangers troops or strategic goals eric magnell an army lawyer stationed in iraq gives a pretty clear explanation of the difficulties at his blog dagger jag t he information environment has changed so much and is so different than in any previous war or conflict here in iraq we have access to so much new communications capabilities it really is mind boggling when you think about it when my father was in vietnam he wrote letters and mailed home cassettes or reel to reel tapes to keep in touch with my mom and his family even thirteen years ago during desert storm the soldiers still wrote letters and had very very few opportunities to call their families in the states with these new capabilities come some very real concerns over operati...