Instead of looking back on the glory days of 2007 like a couple of sad old pillars of salt, Weird Deer Correspondents Eric Baus and F.J. Bergmann share their hopes and dreams for 2008.
Eric Baus:
As of December 31st, 6:44 PM Denver time, I’m excited about reading
all of these 11 books and chapbooks in 2008.
Tisa Bryant, Unexplained Presence (Leon Works)
Renee Gladman, Newcomer Can’t Swim (Kelsey St. Press)
Bhanu Kapil, Humanimal (Kelsey St. Press)
Matthew Goulish, Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology, and Goat
Island (Routledge)
Sara Veglahn, Closed Histories (Noemi Press)
J’Lyn Chapman, Bear Stories (Calamari Press)
Lesley Yalen, This Elizabeth (Minus House)
George Kalamaras, Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors (Bitter Oleander)
Andrew Joron, Sound Mirror (Flood Editions)
Sueyeun Juliette Lee, That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut)
C.S. Carrier, After Dayton (Four Way Books)
A non-book-oriented list would of my most anticipated things of 2008
would include: walking in Denver when it is neither 5 degrees or 110
degrees, trying every kind of Herdez brand salsa, getting better at
ice skating, and for more people to realize that Noah Eli Gordon
looks and acts alarmingly like Count Chocula.
F.J. Bergmann:
The impeachment and subsequent public self-immolation of the entire
Bush cabinet.
Giuliani spontaneously combusts.
Gore runs for President with Nader as VP; they win by a landslide.
Halliburton nationalized and dismantled.
Blackwater board of directors convicted of murders, sentenced to life
in prison.
Immediate total withdrawal from Iraq, which unites under a secular,
tolerant female leader.
Patriot Act repealed. Homeland Security terminated. Peace Corps takes
over global anti-terrorism initiative.
Marijuana decriminalized.
Borders opened: free access from/to Canada and Mexico. Citizenship
offered to anyone still interested.
Bill Gates opens Food for Guns exchange programs throughout central
Africa; starts local cottage industry to use recycled gun metal to
make structural frameworks for coral reefs.
U.S. citizens voluntarily repay whatever tax rebate they got from
Bush to offset the national debt.
Government funding of alternative energy research is immensely
successful.
Discovery of new reliable, cheap, safe contraceptive, effective in
both genders, that also prevents STDs, including AIDS.
Apple invents iPortal: personal teleport devices that are safe and
can be easily set up at home by anyone. Airlines go belly-up, but
nobody cares.
Ivorybill sightings confirmed.
2 responses so far ↓
1 pyramid backlink // Nov 5, 2011 at 7:10 am
Just thought i’d comment and say neat theme, did you code it yourself? Looksgood.
2 dresses suitable for beach weddings // Dec 1, 2011 at 1:38 am
Hands down, Apple’s app store wins by a mile. It’s a huge selection of all sorts of apps vs a rather sad selection of a handful for Zune. Microsoft has plans, especially in the realm of games, but I’m not sure I’d want to bet on the future if this aspect is important to you. The iPod is a much better choice in that case.
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