YB Two Things

This post was going to be like Denis Johnson’s short story “Two Men,” where you never hear anything about the second man, not in that story anyway. But then I decided to put both things in the same post after all.

So, the first thing: Submissions for Issue 5: Animals, close this Sunday, 20 November. We’ve got lots of great stuff so far (fantastic!), but still have room for a few more, if they are super. In particular if you have reviews, send those.

Second thing: We’ve sent, or are sending as I speak (thank you Sherry, who is doing the actual sending since I can’t) – our Pushcart nominations. The Pushcart is something I don’t quite understand, and I’m not afraid to admit it, and there you have it. We are sending our nominations anyway. They are the same as for the Best of Net, earlier. Here’s that post. Or scroll down two posts. You know how to scroll don’t you? If you’re me, you put two fingers on that little rectangle wedged in between the heels of your hands and nudge up, now that OS Lion changed things around. (Used to be: nudge down; i.e., if you wanted to go down the page, you nudged down, which made sense didn’t it. Now, if you want to go down, you nudge up. This is what’s known as an upgrade.)

So – second thing continued: Most hearty thanks to our nominees Brittney Corrigan, Risa Denenberg, Daniel Romo, Troy Urquhart, and Megan Williams. And most hearty thanks to all our contributors.

Third thing! (Ha! That went the other way.) The pic: is a cat. Yes. There have been a lot of whiskers appearing around these parts lately…. This pic is the doing of Karyn Eisler.  She is having computer problems at the moment but I hope she will be back soon.

Are more computers crashing these days, or is it that more people are reporting it? It seems to be happening all the time now, whereas a few years ago I rarely heard of it. I had two hard drive crashes on my less-than-year-old MacBook, and the third could happen anytime, and there is no Apple Store anywhere near here and international warranties are not so international as they are said to be. OK that’s the end of my techno/computer rant.