11 posts tagged “leg over leg”
25 characters including spaces for the first line
old urine unwashed hands
quiet the only person in the church
bathroom during sacrament meeting
kids yell leave holy room
orange padded benches shelter for
action figures in testimony meeting
Lallatin’s Foodtown store
north wall stuffed elk deer geese
stayfresh produce being watered
Paved paths clearly marked
metal rails smashed penny to pickup
train nails ducktaped into dumbbells
Truth or Dare in Camper
naked locked in woodpanel closet
first kiss and my name isn’t Jack
leave meetings to pee
finally alone the bathroom smells
unwashed hands silence dries
basalt cliffs pile up
caves underneath porcupine hides
hands and knees craw to protection
pistol pond somewhere up
through leafy passage green
darkness blue open light exit
Yesterday, I went upstairs to see if James had started the novel that we both have to read for our Contemporary Lit class, and he showed me a surprise on his work table. He had just completed his all art zine! Then, he asked me if I would help him copy it. After 4 hours and 40 dollars we produced a little over 50 issues of his zine. This zine consists of old and new work from the life of James as an artist. I wondered if he had put it together in one day. Well, he pretty much did, but it is the work from over 2 years with some drawings straight from his sketchbook, some paintings from a few months ago, pictures that he has been trying to find a use for the past 4 months, and finally, some sketches that he did just for this zine. These are all meshed into a bright colored cover (if you're lucky!) with professional lettering from the software Microsoft Paint. If you know him, you can get a special discount for it($2 plus shipping and handling). If not, you will have to pay full price(like $5 plus shipping and handling).
To contact James via myspace: http://www.myspace.com/quadrapedsofearthunite
or send him a postcard
James Lloyd
223 N. 15th Ave
Pocatello, ID 83201
P. S. There will be some pictures to come....
The whole online presence of my zine has really started to show its advantages. I have been recieving some submissions and getting some great feedback. I really haven't strived to put my zine on the map of the world-wide-web but I now see that at least putting an indicator of what legoverleg is, has been quite a good thing. Not only that, but people have been contacting me through e-mail with requests and submissions after they have seen the website that was done by my pal or after seeing this here blog.
So I finally decided to give some updates that are proceeding here on my end with the zine and the creative process. The last issue (issue no #3) was supposed to be a rough draft/literary journal where the reader could participate by editing the works that were there, but it turned out to be a failure. NO ONE SUBMITTED ANYTHING THAT NEEDED EDITING OR REVISING. They were all great. Even the Greggy Peggy puddin and pie poem, especially surrounded by the wonderful designs of James Lloyd, a friend and loyal member of the leg over leg staff. Well it wasn't too bad of in issue if you ask me, but here comes another out of the brain child of myself:
ISSUE #4: ALL ART!
so yeah, no more literature, or if you look maybe hard and long enough at this next issue you might start seeing words. A picture is worth a thousand words, and a thousand words could make many, many poems or a story about sitting on your own pet rabbit under the couch cushion. (see dead pet stories, another zine) But here it comes. Actually it is proceeding about as fast as a herd of sloths, but if any of you people out there would like to submit send:
3 pieces of art( the magazine will be in Black and White) to
legoverleg@gmail.com
or
223 n. 15th Pocatello, ID 83201
I can almost gaurantee you that you won't have much competition, so feel free to express yourself(plus I will send you some free copies of other issues). Thank you to all the people that have submitted thus far, and if you aren't an artist except with words the regular submissions are thus:
3 poems
or
1 story(1500 word max)
or
3 literary or artistic articles(creative non-fiction/magazine writing)
cool. That's about it. Keep those juices pumping. So long and have a wonderful day
-yours truly,
jeff pearson, poor man, editor-in-chief, exhibitionist (for today)
attention writers!
Do you want your work revised and published? leg over leg
a local zine is producing two literary issues(#3 and #4)that
are in need of submissions: Rough Drafts
that you want to have worked and published by a plethora of
readers and writers. The edited copies will be bear a final
draft put together by two editors. With each submission you
will be granted a free copy of both the rough draft issue #3
and the final draft issue #4
Therefore, you may self edit and edit other people’s work to
be considered for the final drafts.
The first issue(issue #3): will have an introduction
designed
to produce a reader that can become literate in the art of
revision with an overview on editing marks, revision tips, and response questions for both poetry and fiction. Then, the issue will
contain the rough drafts of all the submissions with room on the pages for editing remarks and feedback. There will be a SASE with
each issue that will have directions on sending it in and an area for a return address, so everyone can get their rough draft issue,
issue#3 back. With all of the edited issues we receive we will make a
masterly crafted final draft for each submission (so the rights to allow us to edit the draft is required upon submission)
We will then create issue #4 which will contain the edited and
revised poems and stories of everyone that submitted.
This is an awesome chance to get published and learn how to make
your writing more effective.
To learn more email me at legoverleg@gmail.com
attention writers!
Do you want your work revised and published? leg over leg
a local zine is producing two literary issues(#3 and #4)that
are in need of submissions: Rough Drafts
that you want to have worked and published by a plethora of
readers and writers. The edited copies will be bear a final
draft put together by two editors. With each submission you
will be granted a free copy of both the rough draft issue #3
and the final draft issue #4
Therefore, you may self edit and edit other people’s work to
be considered for the final drafts.
The first issue(issue #3): will have an introduction
designed
to produce a reader that can become literate in the art of
revision with an overview on editing marks, revision tips, and response questions for both poetry and fiction. Then, the issue will
contain the rough drafts of all the submissions with room on the pages for editing remarks and feedback. There will be a SASE with
each issue that will have directions on sending it in and an area for a return address, so everyone can get their rough draft issue,
issue#3 back. With all of the edited issues we receive we will make a
masterly crafted final draft for each submission (so the rights to allow us to edit the draft is required upon submission)
We will then create issue #4 which will contain the edited and
revised poems and stories of everyone that submitted.
This is an awesome chance to get published and learn how to make
your writing more effective.
To learn more email me at legoverleg@gmail.com
The next issue of my zine is going to be reminiscent of a literary journal, but there are going to be many differences. This issue is going to contain rough drafts of people's work and guidelines for editing them. It will be a magazine on how to edit a literary journal. It will have directions on how to participate in the magazine process by using professional editing marks and strategies. The directions will require that the reader reads, edits, and returns the issue back to alexa and I, who will then create the next issue which will be the final drafts, then we will send everyone back their copies that they edited.
Each zine will include a SASE to send back into Alexa and I, so that we may create the final work.
But I need You! I need submissions from all different writers that will allow for their work to be edited by a large number of people and a final draft made out of the conglomeration of the editing. There are guidelines for submissions but if you submit there is a very good chance I will publish you, whether you are good or bad; all of the readers of leg over leg will help every author to improve upon their work.
These are the submission guidelines for this issue:
Poetry and short fiction rough drafts that are free to be edited, 3 pages maximum, typed, and sent in with contact information to:
legoverleg@gmail.com
or
jeffery ryan
610 E. Whitman
Pocatello, ID 83276
-When submitting: any money donations, stamp donations, and envelope donations would be much appreciated and will guarantee the success of this project.
I have a great idea for issue #3 and #4, but I gotta go to mcdonald's before class so I will tell you all later.
signing off
-jeff
Here is the scoop. I have been watching many movies lately, and with the season of the oscars, it seems pretty fitting. I don't really know what it is, but I have also had a ton of ambition lately. When I watched American Hardcore, I suddenly felt that whatever I do here while I am still alive, I better make it memorable: for me and also everyone else. That is a huge promise or goal, but I figure as long as I continue to have that mindset, I will accomplish something.
Issue #2 for leg over leg is finished for all of you that want it: send two dollars concealed to:
610 E. Whitman
Pocatello ID, 83201
Back with the American Hardcore thing. The way that I am going to become memorable is by writing, since I don't really play any instruments and I feel like the music scene is dead. I would like to become influential as an author, somehow I want to become unique and fresh than with this I am going to make a change to how things are run. I want to make literature come back into style.
The other movies are:
Maybe I am too Idealistic, I don't care. I don't really fit in with the typical Creative Writing student, so I can do whatever I want. Yay! I got a new book, when Saturdayas.usual and I went thrifting last Friday.
Hmm...What am I doing? My weekend has been a train wreck. For some reason I keep making the mistakes that I try so very hard to never make....wow is that vague. I can't really go into detail, its too personal for the whole entirety of the internet 2.0 blogger fanbase of mine to read.
Finally, I am almost finished with an entire tv series. Six Feet Under. I have watched every, single, entire episode(except the last episode, which I was way too emotional to watch it last night) Its weird: I feel so close to death through a tv set, but at the same time I am like the characters within the series, I don't think I can deal with death. I really don't know anyone that can. I guess the people that believe death is a step into another room, or whatever. I don't really see it as an end; I see it more as a different place where I won't be able to do the same things that I do now. There will be better things to do than write. That's it. I am scared of death, because I am afraid of the possibility of not being able to write and love.
What is it? This death thing won't get off of my mind. I am completely fascinated with how people view death. When I went to church, I believed one way. Now, I believe completely different. Or maybe I just believe that I am going wherever evil, non-church goers go. My 2nd issue of leg over leg is going to be on death. That sounds completely unoriginal or stupid. Well, that's the kind of looks I get when I tell people that is what my next theme is. Wes Andersen to death: We can do anything, its my girlfriend and I's zine. She doesn't like to write, so I guess it really is up to me.
I am in a phone-a-thon next week.
Weekend:
The first issue of Leg Over Leg is finished. The theme is Wes Andersen, well kind of. I am selling them fast, but the only people that I have even tried to sell them to have been my friends. There is a review on the velvet underground and nico-self/titled album and much more, mi amigos. Let me know if any of you out in cyberspace land want one, send $2.00($1.00 for the zine; $1.00 for shipping) to:
Jeff Pearson
610 E. Whitman
Pocatello, ID 83201
Sorry for the street address, I promise I will be getting a P.O. Box soon, like when I get the money, but just conceal the money or write a check; whatever works.
