Soulard's Online Notebook 2020



january 25, 2020
9:51 a.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

OK, here goes my show for a new year, & this notebook too! :) Working, good health, KD is good, ready to take on 2020 & wonder at all it might be, all the good it might be, for me, for KD, for alll . . .


february 1, 2020
3:56 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Wow, week & jury duty & job got away from me . . . had to re-jigger . . . so this weekend is devoted to my radio show, shows from 1999 to 2020, just last week . . . added to radio show archives shows from 1/30/1999, 1/29/2000, 1/28/2001, & 1/27/200s . . . & Cenacle 110 is climbing online finally . . . just gotta do better . . . back to new show next week for certain . . .




february 4, 2020
7:14 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Cenacle 110 is posted to this site now, at last! Contents include:

*** Post a Poem You Like! thread from the ElectroLounge Forums
*** Feedback on Cenacle 109
*** New poetry by Sam Knot, Martina Newberry, Judih Haggai, Colin James, Tom Sheehan, & Tamara Miles and John Echem
*** "The Crocodile King of Belize" [Prose] by Charlie Beyer
*** "Green Star Soup" [Travel Journal] by Nathan D. Horowitz
*** "Notes on God" by Jimmy Heffernan
*** "States of Mercy" [More Excerpts From a Novel] by Ace Boggess
*** Classic Poetry by Octavio Paz
*** "Labyrinthine [a new fixtion]" by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Notes from New England" [Commentary] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Bags End Book #15: It Was a Dream of Rain, Part 1" by Algernon Beagle
*** "Session Games People Play:A Manual for the Use of LSD" [Essay] by Lisa Bieberman
*** Graphic artwork by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.

Job/contract is still paying, so I'm still going . . . now to get this issue printed and out the door . . .


february 8, 2020
6:27 p.m.
Dunkin' Donuts - near Assembly Square
Somerville, Massachusetts

Radio updated & new show on, thank universe for that . . . still working on online distributing Cenacle 110 . . . been a long week working . . . paying well . . . I care enough till it don't . . . then I do not . . .


february 15, 2020
5:32 p.m.
Dunkin' Donuts - near Sullivan Square
Boston, Massachusetts

Radio page updated & more news . . . my show is back on at 8 pm , like it was for a long stretch . . . . Cenacle 110 is nearly done for mailing, so close . . . & fucking IDEMIA laid me off halfway through my contract, for reasons unclear . . . it was good money but a shitty situation, mainly I worked with a lunatic who made my days upset & stressed for no reason . . . so move along, try again . . .


february 22, 2020
3:19 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page updated . . . job hunting, a nibble or two, nothing solid yet . . . Cenacle 110 should be mailed on Monday . . . keep on truckee'ing . . .



march 7, 2020
12:00 a.m.
Home
Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page updated, & I am again doing my show on Friday night ahead of radio weekend, this toward time tomorrow to write & write annual Bags End News epic story to its finally . . . no show last weekend at all, I was really rough in the mind . . . since been getting my shit together day by day, & even with the shitty cold that came, I'm still on it . . . Museter for radio's stream is down at the moment, but found another way to get show made & recorded . . . job hunting is its usual drag around by the ass . . . but I have been doing OK this week, holding my own . . . so keep the f going . . .



march 14, 2020
5:55 p.m.
Home
Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page updated, & I am employed again, & the world is dealing with a global pandemic . . . I am not sure what to make of it all . . .



march 21, 2020
8:54 p.m.
Home
Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page updated, & also the links pages are checked & updated . . . gone are Hippyland, SpiritPlants, & Earthrites . . . the pandemic continues, worsens, & nobody knows how bad it will get . . . KD & I got food enough for now . . . I went out to get my new job paperwork done, including a drug screening . . . I just don't know quiite what to say here . . .



march 28, 2020
11:40 p.m.
Home
Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page updated, ready to roll for weekend much better than recently, pushing each time to improve . . . starting work on Monday morning, work laptop came in the mail, mailman & I had to keep our friendly distance . . . then had to spray down package & wash my hands . . . pandemic is passing slowly, not near its bad peak, but there are a lot of good people doing their best to help . . . the heroes WILL win out over the idiots . . .



april 4, 2020
6:31 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page updated . . . & this site passes 22 years going, doing what it does, that is what matters . . . new job started, worked my ass off to get out of the gate well, & I think I did . . . not taking anything for granted . . . world shelters on & on . . . the medical people the world over, & other brave souls out there, are the heroes . . . the dumbass in the White House could only wish . . .



april 11, 2020
12:02 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page updated . . . more timely than usual . . . home again, another Saturday, this week's movie-at-home is Pixar's new one, Onward . . . should be fun, & then shrooming continues into writing & radio show tonight . . . new job two weeks in is good so far, not settling yet, have to keep uncertain & working to make my bones every damned day there . . .



april 18, 2020
6:52 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

New Cenacle work has started, radio page is updated . . . pandemic rolls on, stupid assholes want to make it worse by leaving shelter too soon . . . hang on, if you are reading this & struggling, hang on & see this through right . . . we'll make it if we're smart as fuck . . .



april 25, 2020
6:37 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

New Cenacle work continues radio page is updated . . . will be good to get a radio break to work on new issue fully . . . payjob is satisfactory for now . . .



may 23, 2020
1:15 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Cenacle 111 is about to be released . . . radio page update is done . . . sheltering in place goes on . . . smart people everywhere hanging tough, like NKOTB!



may 30, 2020
12:11 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Cenacle 111 is about to be released, as in tomorrow, for sure. . . radio page update is done . . . sheltering in place goes on . . . now the violence is pitching upwards . . . is this catharsis toward good?



june 6, 2020
7:27 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Cenacle 111 is released, more on that soon . . . radio page is updated . . . putting on masks, going to the local protest tomorrow . . . have to . . . the War is here to be won by Peace . . . VOTE IN NOVEMBER!



june 9, 2020
7:45 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Cenacle 111 | 25th Anniversary Issue iis posted to this site now, at last! Contents include:

*** Coronavirus Documentation Project thread from the ElectroLounge Forums
*** Feedback on Cenacle 110
*** New poetry by Joe Ciccone, Sam Knot, Martina Newberry, Judih Haggai, Ace Boggess, Colin James, & John Echem
*** "The Pervert of Pickett Creek" [Prose] by Charlie Beyer
*** "The Man Who Hid Music" [Fiction] by Tom Sheehan
*** "Rivers of the Mind" [A Novel] by Timothy Vilgiate
*** "Church in the Greenhouse" [Pandemic Journal] by Tamara Miles
*** "Nascent Black-Market Entrepreneurship and the Tides of the Sun" [Travel Journal] by Nathan D. Horowitz
*** "Notes on Artificial Intelligence (AI)" by Jimmy Heffernan
*** "Twice Visiting the Guardians of This Sacred Thai Waterfall" [Travel Journal] by Leia Friedman
*** "The Metamorphosis" [Classic Fiction] by Franz Kafka
*** "Labyrinthine [a new fixtion]" by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Notes from New England" [Commentary] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Bags End Book #15: It Was a Dream of Rain, Part 2" by Algernon Beagle
*** "My Community's People: Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria" [Photo Gallery] by Ekponoimo Iphyok
*** Graphic artwork by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.

Sitting out on the back deck of the Bungalow Cee, typing this note on my dear friend Eurydice . . . beautiful cloudy dusk, grey wonder . . . begun in earnest campaign to extend my job . . . KD had her hours cut, to help save her teammates' jobs . . . we were a few blocks from here standing shouting clapping, signs & masks, to support racial justice, just this past Sunday . . . then I had a couple of down days, or at least 24 hours of down . . . here I am . . . up & carrying on . . .



june 13, 2020
4:07 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Cenacle 111 is released, & now only printing & archiving remain . . . radio page is updated . . . damn Trump has to go . . . November election!


june 20, 2020
11:55 a.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Cenacle 111 is near done printing, next issue needs be under way ASAP . . . radio page is updated, more timely . . . payjob is good OK for now . . . and the world is aiming en masse against Trump . . . he's on the run . . . Nov cannot come soon enough to end his reign . . .


june 27, 2020
1:31 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Cenacle 111 done printing, been mailed, archives all that is left to do . . . Cenacle 112 is well under way . . . radio page is updated, figured a better way to record show, that's wonderful news . . . President Pandemic's poll numbers are skydiving down . . . & he does NOTHING to help himself . . . not a word or deed of empathy or understanding for anyone . . . his pending loss is happening now, day by day . . .



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