Teemings #7 : “No Alarms, No Surprises” has just been posted online and frankly, I think it’s one of our best issues ever!
Issue #8 should be out on December 1st and if you have items you’d like to submit, please go ahead and send them in. It’s never too early. Just be aware that we have a very special edition on tap for our next issue for which the line-up has already been finalized. I think you’re really going to like what we have planned.
It seems that in the past we’ve been mostly a literary zine and I’ve hinted that we’d like to broaden our nets as to what we’d like to see in the future. To give you an idea of what we’re looking for :
Artwork : Are you an artist? A cartoonist? Photographer? We have plenty of web space, so if that’s you’re field and you’d like to see your work featured, send it on in.
Editorial : Although we won’t publish any crackpot theory that comes down the pike, we do open our submissions to editorials on the news of the day as well.
Reviews : While we do have a 1 to 2 month lag between submission and publication, we’d still love to see reviews of current books, movies, theatre, what-have-you.
Anything Else : Don’t see your particular (or maybe peculiar) field of endeavour featured? Drop us a line and let us know what you have in mind.
Lastly, I should quote the last paragraph in my opening editorial as it has a direct bearing on this thread :
Ooh, Ooh, I know!! I know!! This months title, “No alarms, no surprises” Is taken from the Radiohead song, No surprises. Is that enough to get me my goodies?
Usually I’d shrug and let it slide, but for some reason, this is bugging me enough that I won’t sleep tonight unless I make a real try at finding out the answers.
2 - “The Damned and the Pubescent”; internet trolls
3 - “Wretched Entertainment at the Sign of the Trap”; Ishmael seeking accommodation in New Bedford (Moby Dick, Herman Melville)
4 - “More Fool Me”; Genesis live album from the mid 70s
5 - “The Weird Sisters in the Year of the Big Wind”; James Joyce, Ulysses
6 - “Cage 3 - Free Show”; a partially animated film directed by James Incadenza
7 - “No Alarms, No Surprises” - Radiohead
1 - I’m just gonna take a WAG and say it’s a term applied to any literature when the writer’s too lazy ( ) to come up with something else.
Gee-- thanks, Fenris. I read the article again and said to myself “I gotta clean this up.” I guess and hope the ideas pulled it along over the rough writing.
BTW – read Pepper Mill’s piece. Highly recommended!
Sheesh. Print a guy’s writing and the next thing you know he’s bragging about how long his “thingy” is. Would that be the Penis Mightier than the Sword?
I vote for “not-poetry.” I always dump the poetry on my lovely assistant editor, Persephone, and I don’t want her to crack under the strain.
I just realized that this is only the second issue of Teemings that doesn’t have one of my pieces in it - and Euty is saying it’s one of the best issues ever. tears up Oh FINE, you brute, I can take a hint. sobs theatrically