The Utopian
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The smell of fresh coffee
The Sunday morning breakfast meeting is being changed to Sunday afternoon brunch or Sunday evening dinner. Gardening is the rule of the day and we are putting sweet potatoes, artichokes and asparagus in the garden. The watering system works, the air is clean and quiet, only the mosquitoes that I seem to be breeding are… Continue reading
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Sunday morning fire meeting
Good morning good morning, good morning. I know this is a little earlier for some of you than you are comfortable with. But that’s what makes this a great newspaper.It’s not necessarily a great newspaper. It’s a newspaper and it might be great but we cannot say empirically that it is already great. I read… Continue reading
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Back in business
Good morning. Happy Friday and we’re not quite done yet. Yesterday I put a good solid dent in things and I’ve got a nice combination of creative work and bureaucratic make work to finish this number. Though it is not finished yet, you’re welcome to look and the new link can be found here: The… Continue reading
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Just in case
I don’t remember if I posted anything today. If I didn’t, today was a pretty good day. We made good headway on this journal. I think we’re going to make it. And we have this new blog. Things are happening. There’s optimism. That’s it. I didn’t really want to say more. I just have one… Continue reading
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Idea for a meme
Worker number four says “Shut the fuck up!” And hot darn it, we have got ourselves a merch business. This is on a t-shirt. Continue reading
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Evening report
It’s very late but it’s been quite a productive day. I finally pulled the trigger on the biggest part of the move back to the summer office. It’s functional out there and both screens are busy trying to put together our issue of the utopian. It’s pretty close to where we crashed on Tuesday. I… Continue reading
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Master Lu San says…
It is best to do a good job. But the words “good job” are not a matter of public consideration. They are a private moment between yourself and nature. Continue reading
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Replacement picture
The reconstruction has started on the utopian and so far everything is going okay. It’s just a matter of doing the work. Step by step and read every word. We are getting there. No panic. But at one point in the meeting when everyone was getting hungry, we had a question about replacing the picture… Continue reading
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Wednesday problems
Hi. I guess we are in the middle of a transition period that has come about because of an unexpected crash of our Google doc home for the utopian literary magazine. We have been printing 16 pages of hopefully something interesting for the last few weeks but it seems that one stray click can crash… Continue reading
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Utopian Literature
Sunday, January 8, 2023 Hi again. It looks like vacation is over and I am back to work again. I’m really not sure how all of this is going to be going forward except for a few basic ideas. The theme of this year’s blog as well as several other writing projects that I’m going… Continue reading
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