June 2009

Hello all,

I've greatly enjoyed Discharge this month. Lots of strong, dazzling work going within the blog itself. Elsewhere, CJ seems to have gone into chapbook overdrive - all good, all in-keeping with the tone of Discharge. Thanks to Aaron for taking this material and connecting it to the myspace. I say it each month, perhaps, but this all represents a substantive body of work.

Chapbook 2 is in the wind; edited by Doriandra. Here's what she said on the matter. Take heed, please...

Dear Blogger Family, on the heels of 'Be Serpentine Thy Hyde', comes the vacant space which nature abhors and must be filled with the D5 Chapbook II. As i wear the humble hat of editor for this round, please accept my request for submissions at this time. Thematic issues have been the source of quite some pondering but may i suggest to plant this little worm in your mind as you fire up those brilliantly jagged minds.. Aretaeus of Cappadocia, living during the 2nd century A.D., realized and wrote about the often disastrous duality of spirit that exists between the common man, hence being cited in modern psychological parlance, as the first to identify bipolar disease. But ignore that. What is more endearing is his belief in a physical, tangible soul that violently navigated around in the human body, bursting forth evident in angry men with red enflamed faces and then withdrawing timidly in great panics that rendered the human face pale and anxious. It's this manic duality that i wish to explore- that nagging little voice that inspires you to do reckless and brilliant things, and then the other whisper that sends you scurrying back inside in anxious haste. Or not. Send what you wish...it will all take form in a gloriously disturbing fashion. I will be on the road through the middle of August, peddling my textile wares with the freak circus and thereby making the proverbial day job earnings but will be armed with a laptop and various hotel rooms. expected date for Chapbook 2 would therefore be at the end of August.

There you have it.

Best wishes,

Anthony