Journeyman journalism

Statements from the Fourth State

Guarding the Avant-Garde since 2005

Hyper text duality

The interjuntion for those at a juncture

The organic lexical organ

The quarto for the quartet

The uncut hair of graves.

No, Tone Loco, I’m not home free yet on the fourth: like Dufresne, I’m still crawling through the sewage pipes. It’s not till the fifth that I break out of there.

yes, i am aware that Roommate #1 may believe that still leaves you with a catchy / catchy combo, but perhaps he can shove it and lets face it: conz, you don’t exactly write anything interesting with the crispiest clearest prose; you like to utilize the ornamental side of writing much more than most douchebag journalists so run with it. By the Fourth Night you are home free – they ain’t gonna catch you wit their bars and billyclubs! shiet, Andy Dufresne was already in mexico.

Libby: Yes, I’ve always liked ‘The night nears,’ but then again, it would mean a “catchy – catchy” combo for website name and tagline that “Roommate #1″ was advising against. Glad you liked the photoblog section. Yes, I took them (except, obviously, for the old family picture). The photoblog section is just a sampling of the photos. A larger collection of my Fourth Night photo sets are on Flickr: http://tinyurl.com/rxh3n2

For example – Oxfam: Working together to end poverty and injustice (vague then clear) or International Rescue Committee: From Harm to Home (clear than catchy)…sorry I clearly work in Intl development.

So Fourth Night is on the catchy side think you are saddled with a clear and descriptive tagline like – Independent, off-road journalism. (Though Proudly flipping off publishers since 2005 is my favorite…)

A DIFFERENT VOICE: Thanks for the correction. You’re right, I meant to say daisies. Thanks for the eye for detail. I’ll correct that. And thanks for the great suggestions. I especially like: “When you tire of the other three.” I may bring the wood-like man back. Those figures are actually sculptures by a Monhegan artist, Ted Tihansky. He chainsaws logs and stumps and then burns them until they blacken. You can see his artwork at http://www.tedtihansky.com

SELDOM SEEN: Encapsulate means “to express in a brief summary, to summarize.” There you go, you learned a new word today. Don’t ask me why you’re a patient fool, my friend. That’s for you to answer. I never made any claims at specialization. My initial pledge, and that’s all I ever try to do, is to deliver interesting writing. About what? Everything under the sun. Look elsewhere for topical writing. As for “naming a book that has yet to be written” all I can say is, nicely put.

ANNABONES: To be honest, I wasn’t really planning on using the ranting quote but I wanted to see the response. So far it’s the most disliked one of them all so consider yourself a bellwether.