As of today we are officially BLIP, an independent lit mag heir to MississippiReview.com. As is mentioned elsewhere, we have the same editorial group plus some new additions, and we will publish a quarterly magazine as a structured publication in January, April, July, and October. In addition we’ll do a This Week page which Meg Pokrass is working with us on, and a Favorites page where we’ll publish things that catch our interest outside of the regular publishing schedule. We started as RICK Magazine, but someone couldn’t bear that, so we’ve adopted BLIP, which precisely captures who and what we are–all of us. New address is www.blipmagazine.net, though blipmag and rickmag will also get you here.
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Sep 10
We been blipped
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Aug 10
Glenn Beck is an Idiot But the Story Does Not End There
Gary Percesepe
Glenn Beck is an idiot, flotsam & jetsam in time’s stream. Any day now, like a spot, he’ll be mopped up. He’s the very latest model of fear mongering, name blaming, self appointed prophet come to cleanse America and see to it that we as a people are “renewed” and that “honor be restored” to our nation. He also believes that President Obama is a racist, and that gathering thousands of angry white people for a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of the March on Washington led by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is just a coincidence and should not be interpreted as a slap in the face to African Americans, or to Lincoln for that matter.
But Beck is not what I really want to talk about.
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Aug 10
Call for submissions, October issue
Accommodations
Edited by Gary Percesepe and Sara Lippmann
How do daily concessions affect us? How do we bear up under the weight of compromise? Those tiny adjustments we all make, even in our most intimate relationships, eventually accrue – but how, exactly? We’re looking for stories of accommodations we’ve known or made or imagined, and how they shape us.
As always when we read, we seek the problematic, the curious, the ill-fitting, the remarkable and the mundane, work that stays with us, which challenges our tastes and imaginations, our spirits. We thank you for sending your best work our way.
Word limit: 5,000
Deadline: September 15, 2010
Send stories as attachments in MS Word format to Gary Percesepe or Sara Lippmann at editors@rickmagazine.net.
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Aug 10
Meg Pokrass named Editor at Large
We at (sometimes) RICK magazine are particularly pleased today to announce that Meg Pokrass has joined our little group as Editor at Large. She begins immediately heading up a project called This Week (This Week in your menu bar) where she will put who knows what? Other editors may contribute as well, if they dare. We have no clew what will be put there and will attempt not to intrude editorially unless absolutely necessary, although intrusion remains, for us, a pleasure forever possible.
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Aug 10
Speaking of Cheryl
Speaking of Cheryl, maybe you’ve seen this piece already–Capping Stress in New Orleans