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THE WORST IS to become accustom to. To take for granted the things that once made you wonder. This is the diminishing returns of knowing and familiarity. This isn’t to be confused with loss of innocence but instead the innocuous encroachment of the banality, because banality isn’t just a category of trivial things but their repetition ad nauseam.
The subject of this taking-for-granted can be many things; bread makers, your favorite band you haven’t listened to in months, macramé, a pet, a place, a person or any combination of the preceding (feel free to come up with your own list of things you’ve taken for granted or ignored and submit it to us, maybe we’ll publish it).
Since familiarity is a circumstance of memory would it be better to be goldfish living in a world of constant novelty?* You could argue that some of us are already there but let’s assume that most of us are still unable to support a 24-hour hedonistic lifestyle. So what to do?
Well I’ve heard tell that living is a constant state of becoming, “he not busy being born is busy dying” and so on. I think what I’ve realized is that as long as you remain the tempest eye in the center of the calm you can keep one step ahead of the creeping complacency. And it is with that notion in mind all three of Ugly Accent’s editors have embarked upon our own separate journeys to “mix things up a bit”.
One of own has moved to our nation’s capitol as part of the recent congressional democratic surge, congrats Juli Obudzinski (Rep. D-WI)! Another editor has moved across state lines to jeer his least favorite ursine football team at point blank range. Our final member has begun the most arduous journey, undertaking eighteen or more years of chaos by becoming a father.
The changes in our lives will hopefully become evident in this our second issue. Mistakes from the first issue, and yes we may have made a few, will be adjusted if not rectified, (maybe even made worse). Fonts will be changed and margins realigned. Our new perspectives on life will bleed into the journal whether it is the outlook of a new father, a delighted sports contrarian or as a political neophyte we will continue to metamorphose so that neither you the reader nor we the editors can ever take UGLY ACCENT for granted.
* Recent studies have shown the notion that goldfish have miniscule to non-existent memory to be false and they actually have the ability to retain memories similar to the way in which mice can remember a maze, but for the purposes of expediency and metaphor I have once again decided to propagate this misnomer. Apologies to the goldfish.
- Matt Friauf, Co-founding Editor
UGLY ACCENT SPRING 2007 NOW AVAILABLE
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| THE MUCH ANTICIPATED follow up to our premier issue which launched last fall, can still be found in select cities throughout the Midwest, including the Madison, Milwaukee and Chicago metro areas. We are also hoping to get with the technological times, by making future Issues available as a pdf, which you can download and print at home. Yes, pretty cool, we know. As always, our online archives house the complete works of UGLY ACCENT fiction, poetry and essays, so don't be shy to play around our site for a few hours... Where to find UGLY ACCENT in Madison Willy Street Coop, Atomic Coffee, South Madison Library, Monroe St. Library, Central Library, Avol's Bookstore, Star Books, UW-Madison Memorial Union, A Room of One's Own, Supreme Pizza, Mabel's Sandwich Shop, Company of Theives & Rainbow Books Where to find UGLY ACCENT in Milwaukee Harry Schwartz (Oakland), Harry Schwartz (Downer), East Side Library, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Beans and Barley, Art Bar, Fuel, Bremen Street Cafe, People's Books, Rochambo & Anodyne Coffee Copies are also available in select venues throughout Chicago, Seattle, Olympia, Portland, St. Louis and San Francisco. |
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UGLY ACCENT AUTHOR IN THE SPOTLIGHT
MILWAUKEE AUTHOR Bayard Godsave has recently been honored with the publication of "00:02:36:58" in Norton's Flash Fiction Forward, a collection of "80 Very Short Stories," released in July of 2006. Bayard's story was published in the Carolina Quarterly, and when editors James Thomas and Robert Shapard picked up on it (after scouring hundreds of literary journals and publications), they contacted him for permission to publish it in Norton's newest anthology. Learn more about Flash Fiction Forward on Norton's website at wwnorton.com. Bayard Godsave is currently a PhD candidate in UW-Milwaukee’s Creative Writing Program, working on the completion of his dissertation. A lover of books, he can intermittingly be found at the legendary Harry W Schwartz Bookshop in Milwaukee, shelving books or secretly reading at the register. His name is authentic, and will be famous someday. His work has appeared in The Cream City Review, Tohe Carolina Quarterly, Cimarron Review, and Red Weather Literary Magazine. Check out "Letters from the Editor" in UGLY ACCENT'S Fiction Archives. |
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