While encoding my projects beneath a numerical cipher is /secure/ and prevents me from getting pinned down to any sort of commitment (hm, a complaint my ex had also), it must make for oblique, boring reading. Article 2 is IN—hopefully not too late to be used. (It was a review of Michael Barnholden’s Reading the Riot Act: A Brief History of Rioting in Vancouver; an interesting read, but a topic I exhausted most of my word count in just setting up. This may be why my proclivity leans far more toward online writing: never hitting the end of the page means I can be a slow boil + can build as long as I need to. As it is I put all my players on the stage, introduce them, and then need to wrap it up before they get to do anything! In any case, these conflicts were the primary obstacles in getting the piece in.)

Article 3 was an interview of Bob Uker, aka the Minoans, for a magazine run by one of my old computer artscene buddies Tincat. The interview was mostly fluff peppered with a couple of paragraph-long questions, but really the whole purpose of the article was for an excuse to quote from his over-the-top song lyrics about how hard an artist’s life is.

Article 4 coming on up is a feature on that locally-grown video game about living on the street and setting the theme of homelessness and repetitive, arbitrary labours for uncertain rewards, in a video gamey context.

As for 5? Poetry? I still stall at the thought. I imagine they’d take fiction too.