Soulard's Online Notebook 2021


july 17, 2021
6:36 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, back to my show, now a long run of weekends throughout the summer . . . Cenacle 116 debuted last weekend at JG meeting & now is in slow final editing process . . . hoping to get it done, electronic & print & archives, by end of July . . . but I need to write alongside of this too . . . I lose myself, my best self, when I stray from it . . . so run writing, press-work, radio, side by side . . .

Got called about a job at Moderna, web author position . . . interview was unimpressive, but the money better than anything I have made . . . is it just about money, though? Has it ever been? I'd say, as much as I can, no . . . still, I did it because I am on a current contract till December . . . nothing further at this moment . . . come the fall, I have to start job hunting anew . . . I'd like to stay where I am, keep doing what I am doing . . . no knowing at this moment about this . . . today to write, that's what matters most of all . . .



july 24, 2021
1:21 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, & Cenacle 116 final edit work goes on still . . . nothing futher about that job, somehow not surprising . . . just doing my best with the good job I have, the promises that it may keep in time . . .

On a totally different note, one of my SPRadio DJs, Paul Finch of DJ Frogs' In the Window, died in the past week . . . I knew he had been sick, in hospital, but hoped he'd make it . . . him being in England, not much else I could do but email . . . then his daughter's email came telling me of his passing . . . we were not close emotionally, or knowing much of each other's lives, but he was a good DJ & he loved music & show was one of few from 2011 to be around still . . . I hope he died painlessly, as he wished . . . if you're free of pain now, my old friend, & carrying on in your chosen way among the Stars, so much the better for all . . .


july 31, 2021
1:21 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, & Cenacle 116 final edit is done . . . soon to be online . . . . . .

Seems like pandemic lingers . . . another long summer . . . better than last year, but still killing people . . . frustrating to see . . .


august 7, 2021
1:05 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, & SPR weekend is under way . . . this one is devoted to & dedicated to DJ Frogs, aka Paul Finch, host from 2011 to 2021 of In the Window, when he passed last month . . . I've created a weekend of content including 23 of Frogs' shows, ranging from #1 to #289, first to last & many in between . . . added some photos to the radio page of Frogs, & also a playlist for the weekend for his shows that is derived from what he would send me . . . & my radio show has a sound collage for him . . . I guess that is all something for now . . . suspect there will be more over time . . .

Cenacle 116 is done to publish online, which it was last weekend . . . printing & archiving & promotion under way . . . here are the contents:
*** Feedback on Cenacle 115
***ElectroLounge Forums
*** New poetry by Sam Knot, Martina Newberry, Judih Haggai, Tamara Miles, Colin James, Ace Boggess, & Kenzie Oliver
*** "A Hood Funeral" [Prose] by Charlie Beyer
*** "First Steps Around San Pablo" [Travel Journal] by Nathan D. Horowitz
*** "Notes on Human Evolution" by Jimmy Heffernan
*** "Too Much Asia to Erase" [Fiction] by Tom Sheehan
*** "The Dead" [Classic Fiction] by James Joyce
*** "Labyrinthine [a new fixtion]" by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Notes from New England" [Commentary] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Bags End Book #18 - Sleep Over in Imagianna! - Part 1" by Algernon Beagle
*** "Rivers of the Mind" [A Novel] by Timothy Vilgiate
*** "Secret Joy Amongst These Times: A History of Scriptor Press, 1995-Present" by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** Graphic artwork by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr., AbandonView, Timothy Vilgiate, Tamara Miles, Nathan D. Horowitz, & Judih Haggai


august 14, 2021
9:24 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, & Cenacle 116 is in the printing stage. . . . . .

Running so late . . . but getting this done . . .

august 21, 2021
12:33 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, & Cenacle 116 is in assembling stage. . . thinking of the brave people marching in the streets of Afghanistan . . . wishing them safety & freedom & love . . .


august 28, 2021
11:54 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, & Cenacle 116 is still in the assembling stage, & promotion too . . . autumn coming, people are getting vaccines, hope swirls in & amongst the dark & doubt . . . & is ready & wishing to touch each & all . . .


september 4, 2021
11:54 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, & Cenacle 116 is ready but for disks that are burning this long holiday weekend . . . glad the autumn is nearing . . .


september 11, 2021
6:02 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, & Cenacle 116 is done, but for archiving . . .

And wow, three years in the making, Scriptor Press Sampler | 19 | 2017 Annual is done!. . . This Annual's contents include:
*** Poetry by Raymond Soulard, Jr., Tamara Miles, Ace Boggess, Martina Newberry, Colin James, Judih Haggai, Joe Ciccone, Gregory Kelly, Joe Coleman, Tom Sheehan, & Patrick Gene Frank
*** Travel journals by Nathan D. Horowitz & Charlie Beyer
*** Prose pieces by Jimmy Heffernan & David Hartley
*** Dream Raps by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** Labyrinthine [new fixtion] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** Fiction by Algernon Beagle
*** Graphic artwork by Kassandra Soulard

Onto to new work, & thoughts of a ten week plan for The Cenacle!

september 18, 2021
2:02 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, & Cenacle 117 is pretty much under way, trying a ten weeks length of plan, eight leading up to and two after Jellicle Guild meeting debut . . .matter of momentum & making the most of more planned time. . .

Here's some nice additional work to tell of . . . several older Cenacles have been uploaded to the site: Cenacle 43-44 from Winter 2001 & Cenacle 45 from April 2001 . . . more to come!

september 25, 2021
12:25 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, & Cenacle 117 is reaching out from my work started to the contributors too this weekend . . .

Here's some more nice additional work to tell of . . . newly added Cenacle | 1 | April 1995 & Cenacle | 2 | May 1995 to this site, plus the first RaiBook, Orpheus & Eurdice: Making the Lyre (1999) in a more reader-friendly form . . . push-push-pushing along!

october 9, 2021
11:38 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, & Cenacle 117 is rolling along in prep . . . all the primary contributions are in hand, feedbacks pending . . . I've been really devoting to this issue, writing for it, working with my friends/Artists/contributors to hit the many marks along the way . . . it's getting my prime attention, & this is a good feeling . . . a devotional feeling . . .

Didn't go last year because pandemic, but this year drove a full-up Sydnee Grand Prix SE up to Mt. Desert Island, to our hut Bungalow Bee, for hiking, biking, Woods & Sea, so much fun . . . many foolish maskless crowds . . . one masks to protect one's self & others . . . how hard is that to understand? Anyway, it was a dandy time nonetheless . . .

Continuing to work on Within's Within archives project, & JBIII Raibook, & Scriptor Press Sampler 20, & toward Burning Man Books 2022 . . . Labyrinthine, Many Musics, Bags End News, Dream Raps, Travelers Tales, next Jellicle Literary Guild meeting end of October . . . & my radio show went on promptly today! 11 am! Woot!
october 16, 2021
5:10 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, & Cenacle 117 work weekend begins now!
november 13, 2021
12:12 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page updated . . . & Cenacle 117 took extra long, I wrote extra much, Jellicle Guild delayed a weekend, & now today the rest . . . still a lot of work to do . . . the autumn is gorgeous, even having to still shelter for safety way most of the time . . .writing has begun big canvas again, excited as I am at the edge of what I know can do . . . push, push push on . . . oh, also, for Scriptor Press Sampler #1 1999, revised its page for Publitas reading view . . . better than just a PDF download option alone . . . more to come . . . oh, also 40 years since that Jenny Lehman party, almost felt good for more than a day or two . . . ah well . . . feel better in a lot of ways now, & grateful . . . life does not even out its hurts, but better days are always possible . . .
november 20, 2021
6:59 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page updated . . . & Cenacle 117 will be ready this weekend for online release this weekend . . . gotta get pushing to new work pronto . . . extension of job contract or full-time lingering question . . . I have little job hunted yet . . . did put on a big presentation to colleagues about value of work my team does . . . hard to know what will decide it how . . . just keepin' the fuck on . . . oh, nicer thing: KD updated the Photo Galleries on this site, more of her photos always a better thing!
november 27, 2021
9:29 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page updated . . . & Cenacle 117 is printed, not yet bound, but posted here so that is progress for sure . . . running real late this weekend from COVID booster shots last weekend . . . & Thanksgiving too . . . trying to get shit together . . . from hereon . . .
december 3, 2021
3:13 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page is updated, earlier than usual, because this weekend, though I am not able to get to New Britain for my annual retreat to work on writing for the next Cenacle, I am going to be as many hours as possible up in the Attic here with just pens, notebooks, Attic Radio, Polly iPod, working away . . . & so my show is getting pre-recorded tonight, & the rest of the radio work is already done . . . intending to make good of this time . . .

Cenacle 117 is done but for the supplementary disk, SO CLOSE . . . tardy in posting its contents here, but here finally they are:
*** Feedback on Cenacle 116
***ElectroLounge Forums
*** New poetry by Jo Monea, Nathan D. Horowitz, Martina Newberry, Judih Haggai, Tamara Miles, Colin James, Ace Boggess, & Tom Sheehan
*** "Plumb" [Prose] by Charlie Beyer
*** "Hold On Tight" [Travel Journal] by Nathan D. Horowitz
*** "Notes on Morality" by Jimmy Heffernan
*** Letter from Gregory Kelly
*** "Mabon Calling" [Fiction] by Sam Knot
*** "The Golden Key" [Classic Fiction] by George MacDonald
*** "Labyrinthine [a new fixtion]" by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Notes from New England" [Commentary] by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** "Bags End Book #18 - Sleep Over in Imagianna! - Part 2" by Algernon Beagle
*** "Rivers of the Mind" [A Novel] by Timothy Vilgiate
*** "Secret Joy Amongst These Times: A History of Scriptor Press, 1995-Present" by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
*** Graphic artwork by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr., AbandonView, Michael Couvaras, Jo Monea, Frederick Albert Horowitz, Tamara Miles, Nathan D. Horowitz, Maurice Sendak, & Judih Haggai

It's such a great issue, longer I think than any previous. Finish it good, onto the next!


december 11, 2021
12:07 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page updated, & penultimate show of the year is going nicely. . . & Cenacle 117 print copies are well along their way, using a service called Pirate Ship for printing labels & tracking the packages, so far really nice . . . & the really wonderful news that my employer has extended my contract to June, & the plan seems to be to convert my job to full-time well before that . . . if so, WOW FUCKING HAPPY WOW . . . it was July 2019 that ERT broke my damned heart with layoff . . . looks like daylight ahead . . . for more than just me too . . .
december 18, 2021
11:47 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Radio page updated, holiday show going this weekend, 36 shows this year as wished for every year . . . Cenacle 118 work is deep deep in, with only a week to get it done . . . & Cenacle 117 done but a handful of online promotions . . . what a mindfuck of a year . . . I guess every one of them is in one way or another . . . grateful to be on the beam, along the path, wishing peace & love to all, & hoping 2022 is kinder to all of us & each of us to each other . . .
december 28, 2021
2:06 p.m.
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Milkrose, Massachusetts

Scriptor Press Sampler | 2 | 2000 Annual, Scriptor Press Sampler | 3 | 2001 Annual, Scriptor Press Sampler | 4 | 2002 Annual, Scriptor Press Sampler | 5 | 2003 Annual, Scriptor Press Sampler | 6 | 2004 Annual, & Scriptor Press Sampler | 7 | 2005 Annual now all revised for Publitas reading view, & part of the press's ongoing Twitter / Instagram / Facebook regular promotions . . . it's really good to get this series more distributed online, even as Sampler | 20 | 2018 Annual is under way . . . would love in 2022 to get it all caught up & out there in print copies too . . .

Cenacle 118 was released at last weekend's long long Jellicle Literary Guild meeting . . . now of course to do final proofing . . . printing, promotion, archiving, all that . . . will take into January, but already begun . . .

2021 was a kind of hard dry butt-fuck of a year . . . a survive-now-&-hope-to-thrive-later kind of year . . . 2022 I intend to work harder than ever for my Art, & do what I can to encourage others in all directions . . .



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