Minutes of the Editorial Board Meeting (21/6/16)

21 June 2016
Present: RS, FS, GT, ST ('Bastards')
Apologies: Comrade Jésus

[In a fit of anarchist whimpering, the agenda was discarded. The self-appointed secretary randomly recorded fragments as they occurred.]

"Clean as a Swiss hotel."

"The Anonymous Scotsman must be thanked."

"A butt does look a bit like a Venn diagram."

"If I hear one more thing about hemp I'm going to kill myself."

"'Milk buttons' sounds like a euphemism for nipples."

"The hot jet of maternal sustenance shatters my cornea like a stained municipal window."

"... you are subconsciously excoriating the premise ... of a creative commons and how literature transmits itself."

"A broad shovel whacking--" / "At the testicles of illiterate society?"

"I don't think casual homophobia is necessarily the way to engage with an intellectual idea."

"The poo is all on me."

"'Four and twenty inches / hanging to his knees.' I only ever quote poetry accurately when it's obscene."

"Chickenbridge: a bridge made from chickens, for chickens."

"It will be a symphony in meow."

"And then, when she said, 'Adolescence is like being in a pool of yourself the whole time.'[*] I had a giggling fit and soemone had to talk me down."

"Get off my back!"

"Blee!" / "No, it's spelled, Bli."

"This means, 'Pedagogy as a practical mechanic.' I don't really want to think about [sic] that." / "Pedagogy of the Easily Impressed."

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[*] Lavinia Greenlaw, 9 May 2001 (25:55, introducing 'The Long Day Closes')

Minutes of the New Editorial Board Meeting

date: 24/5/16

present: RS, FS, GT, ST, Comrade Jesús.

Collectively to be known as 'The Editors ("Bastards")' in future.*

item one, welcome.

By founding editors GT & ST in this Revolutionary Year Zero, to new comrades, FS and RS and Comrade Jesús. Comrade RS offered compliments on the of commandeering of a ballroom for this occasion. Comrade Jesús praised the wine. FS paints the walls with slogans.

item two, initial intentions.

FS: Writing Inside vs. Outside of Academia

RS: In Praise of Precision

GT: A Response to John Shoptaw (-------**)

ST: Francis Towne conversational review with RS (-------**)

NB: Bracketed items may take longer than stated deadline (see item three).**

General discussion of possible article categories:

- Sacred Cow Patties

- Conversational Reviews

- (Aggressive) Interviews

- Lists of links / news

- "This week I have mostly been reading..."

- The Internet Forgets Nothing (a.k.a. 'From the Archives')

- Existentio-millennial Meltdown Corner (E=2MC?)

item three, deadlines.

1 June 2016.***

item four, AOB (what does this acronym mean? why is it even allowed?)

All Our Base

Anti-Oedipus Bust-up

Apple Or Barbiturate?

Acheron opens Bakery

Also Organic Babies
...

Further additions, emendments, variants, system dumps and data variances welcomed, likely ignored.

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* With optional exemptions of Comrade Jesús and Bastards, according to context.

** Excised from public records so as to throw the enemy off the scent.

*** All dates are nominal/fictional. "Time does not exist" --Buddha, laughing.