Author's Foreword |
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There's a buzzin'
and a ringin' in my ear Well, another ten years passed and I filled up a few dozen notebooks with insanity, as usual, and some of it is actually interesting, if just as a study in dilettante-ism. The 90's were a rough ride for me and that's reflected in the work you'll see here. But I gave as much hell as I got, so I'm sure it evens out in the end. Anyway, the work in front of you is a cross-section of what I did in those years. As a cross-section, it includes the good, the bad, and the mediocre. The Compilers and I have decided to simply allow the reader to sort through the material as he wishes, as that's what the reader always does anyway. So, enjoy. I hope you find the serious parts serious and the humorous parts humorous. Richard Van Ingram |
COMPILERS' NOTE The 1990's began, for some, on a down note a war that could easily have developed into a world-wide conflict, an economic situation that left many either with no job or with terrible ones in the service industry, a political situation where the choices were between charlatans and rogues. All in all, the early 90's were unhappy times, especially for "Generation X-ers" who had discovered that everything they had desired or hoped for as children would have to be shelved in favor of cleaning up the messes of their parents. Little wonder that the latter 90's saw most everyone turn a blind eye to abuses of power and unfettered greed so long as most people benefited economically. Drop out, buy stock, eat Ecstasy. Even Gen X-ers became less edgy as they finally received better paying jobs and insurance. Of course, by 2001 it had all gone to hell again, but that's another tale. Our present story
is about the 1990's and about one man's journey through his
twenties into his thirties, and the poetry and other material he secreted
and left behind like the slime trail of some quiet literary slug. "Almost" is also an appropriate word here because every story needs characters and every character needs some sort of name; so why not use the fellow's actual name? It hardly matters, but it's conventional. That, and we have several interviews with this man as background and we don't want to have to go back and type in some idiotic pseudonym in place of his name. The Compilers |
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