tommorow I lose my virginity

If you do anything enough you do it better. This would probably be what i've learned above all with Port Veritas. On July 4th our first Anthology comes out, we started preparing it years ago when I would harrass Nate every night he hosted about it. "Do you need me to send you more stuff? I have more stuff!" I already had a lot of stuff, but it wasn't the stuff that we have now. I kept bugging Nate and talking to Wil about it and asking for participation from everyone but Santa.

Finally Nate turned it over to me and I began bugging the authors a lot of them without saved, edited documents they just turned over to me multiple crumpled notebooks sometimes with two or three different versions of the same piece. It was terrible because poet notebooks are all in some disgusting bombed out version of cursive. I HATE YOU CURSIVE!

I read them and re read them and sometimes i called the authors to run a part by them but in going through the process of saving them on documents and filing them under one folder I fell in love all over again with the wide spectrum of ideas that exist under our umbrella. We settled on the perfect picture to represent it just a deserted Portland street whistling with the lives of so many crossing paths sometimes incidentally sometimes purposefully and forever.

At our best that is how we are and I'm going to buy ten copies. I'm going to force my mother to read some of it. I'm going to march with it and keep beating the drum until the sound is perfect, its what we've all done. Tommorow is not a big deal in the end. Just ask Nate about next year.