Last night, just after the clock struck twelve, your brave All Rights Reservers (plus one extra friend, Seamus Murphy) stood before a podium and expounded. I mean, EXPOUNDED Homer’s Odyssey. Book VI never sounded so great! Had to use a Coke bottle to stand in for an olive branch, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Really wish we could’ve stuck around for the Phaecian dance party. Perhaps Atilla will fill us in soon!
Of course there’s still time to donate everyone. And still plenty of time to get down to Alumni Hall on King’s campus and catch the last, oh, 7-8 hours of reading. I suggest you go at around 5–Books 22-24 are real doozies.
If you’re too tired, too cold, too whatever your excuse is, then check out the live stream.
Hey all. I’m happy to announce that All Rights Reserved will be participating in “Odyssey Live! 24 Books in a 24 Hours,” a fundraiser for local literacy advocate Halifax Humanities 101. The event runs from 6pm Friday (January 22) to 6pm the following evening. Our team will be reading the hilarious Book VI, where Odysseus comes scampering out of the woods wearing nothing but an olive branch. Hello ladies! We’re on at midnight, so please come out and show your support for the night shift! If you’re on Facebook, then please join the group, spread the word…you know the drill.
To all our lovely writers:
If you submitted anything between December and January 11, you may have received a response that indicated your email was not received. Unfortunately, we are in the process of reworking the website, and so for a while emails were bouncing back. But it appears as though the problem has been remedied, so if you’re concerned that your submission may not have come through, please do submit again.
Sorry for the trouble. And, oh yeah, Happy New Year by the way!
Hey everyone!
We’re making some changes to the All Rights Reserved website. Please check back again soon!
Yes, that’s right, we’ve done the unthinkable: All Rights Reserved has set up a Twitter account. I suppose it’s really not all that surprising. After all, we love words. And brevity. So start following already!
Hey everyone!
We’re gearing up to print the 2009 issue of the journal, and we’d like your help. That’s why All Rights Reserved will be hosting a silent auction at Pogue Fado (1581 Barrington Street) on October 4th, between 5:00 and 9:00. Lots of amazing items on the block, so be sure to get there nice and early.
Hope to see you all soon!
Your friendly ARR editors.
Recently Pottersfield Press released Nova Scotia: Visions of the Future, a compilation of ideas regarding the future of our province. According to their website, Pottersfield Press hopes that the book “may set in motion some serious action that can help Nova Scotia live up to its full future potential. The writing is personal, reflective, proactive and thoroughly captivating by more than 30 contributors from many diverse fields of expertise.”
Quill & Quire provided a brief article on the book, mentioning that Lesley Choyce (author and publisher) plans to hand-deliver copies of the forward-thinking enterprise to politicians across the province. We think this is a great idea! Though we couldn’t help but notice that ex-Premier Rodney MacDonald is on the list of contributors. Something tells me his vision of the future didn’t include a humiliating defeat and third party status for the Progressive Conservatives in the election last week. Of course, the writers were only asked to describe what they thought Nova Scotia would be like in ten to one thousand years, so what can we really expect?
Whether these writers see a utopia of clean energy, better healthcare and efficient politics or a dystopia of polluted harbours and minority governments, let’s all hope that this book garners more serious attention from our politicians than Yann Martel’s correspondences with Stephen Harper’s communications staff.
Hey Haligonia!
Since this is our first official entry (Welcome messages don’t really count after all), I thought I’d kick things off with a nod to an article published last week in New York Magazine.
In it, Sam Anderson explores the negative impact of modern technology on the brain, and offers his defense, as it were, of sites like Twitter, Facebook, even the Internet in general (this includes blogs!). As in, if you’re reading this blog entry right now instead of doing your work, then you might just be a victim. Or an evolving species, depending on your perspective. Anderson points out that “People who frequently check their e-mail have tested as less intelligent than people who are actually high on marijuana.” Well, that explains a lot. But do compulsive e-mail checkers also eat peanut butter straight from the jar with their fingers after a round of inboxing?
Enjoy the article! It scared me off of email for a whole 2 hours.
P.S. Just thought I’d share the news that there’s a Writer’s Open Mic happening at Local Jo Cafe & Market (2959 Oxford Street) on Thursday, May 28, 2009, at 7pm! No affiliation with us, but if it’s got something to do with words and the people who write them, we’re all for it!
Welcome to the All Rights Reserved Editor’s Blog! We’re just getting things sorted out (i.e. poking about our wordpress dashboard, trying out themes, etc), but be sure to check back again for exciting literary news and info.
