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When you look at this cover image are you seeing what you think you're seeing? Look again.
This is the opening example of how we plan to be very different this year. After the debacles of 2001, your World's Magazine plans to take you on a ride through the doors of perception this year.
AND much to our non-surprise, our Publisher has not completed his hejira. He still has that wild-hair that took him to Serbia.
NEXT STOP? Well, hang onto your hats. All shall be revealed in the coming days. BUT FIRST you have to stick around for our Gala 300th Web Event, coming in only three weeks.
Stay with us.
TODAY'S RDR: LOUISE WISECHILD, PH.D weighs in at The World's Magazine with "In Praise of FUN." A good place to start your New Year -- PLUS our Web Site Pick of the Week and the Readership Poll: ("2002! Oh Baby! I'm going to....?") RESULT THUS FAR: "Leave the country. It's too scarey for me" 25%, "SSDD" 25%, "You talkin' to me?!?" 25% -- Now go rock the vote. ABOUT US** TABLE OF CONTENTS **
[EDITOR'S NOTE: To kick off this new year, long awaited, we decided to poll the members of the G21 Reading List on their opinions about the magazine itself and the world. We asked three questions:
Do you like/dislike our new cover design? Please explain?
What are your thoughts and feelings about the coming year, 2002? and
Who would you nominate for The World's Magazine "Person of the Year" slot?
The answers follow.
From Lehnert R., Fountain Valley, CA, USA:
1 - It seems fresh, alive but not overly cutesy and confusing -- I can
still find my way around.
2 - 2002 will be more of the same -- the more things change the more
they remain the same.
The "War on Terrorism" will end the way the Vietnam War should have ended long before it did -- we will declare victory and go home. No one will dispute our declaration because the ones who could dispute it don't really care what we declare; they got what they wanted -- rid of us.... More
NEW ORLEANS, 1 January, 2002 - I've always liked the actor Fred Ward (Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins, The Right Stuff, Henry & June, Miami Blues, to name but a few films.) I like him in whatever he's in. For some strange reason, I identify with him the way I used to with Spencer Tracey.
Maybe it's because I want the kind of average, rough-hewn looking guy to win, being a kind of average, rough-hewn looking guy myself.
Two New Year's ago, I took Rod, that character in a novel that pretends to be myself, to Cancun, Mexico. This New Year, while residing in New Orleans, The Plan has become to move this spiritual hejira of mine to Mexico until I return to Europe. It's going full circle, I feel, in that when I made my last major life decision (marriage) I had been planning to go to Mexico and write The Great American Novel. That impulse to live in Mexico has never really died. And those letters from the women of ArtCamp have had their effect upon my imagination.
OAKLAND, CA, USA - In last week's RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT, my colleague THOMAS HART had a lot to say about being glad to have 2001 behind us. I read it, laughed, and sympathized with his flow. I wasn't exactly overjoyed with most of the events of 2001. But I got married in June of that year, so it will always be special for me. So, looking forward to 2002, I was pleased to be asked to share with you some of things I have to say.
I'm looking forward to this New Year, 2002, like the rest of my homies. But maybe for a lot of different reasons...More
VASHON ISLAND, WA, USA - Since childhood, New Years has been the occasion for torturous forays into flagellatory attempts at self-improvement. For years I made odious and ultimately impossible resolutions: I will not pinch my brother. I will not talk back to my mother. I, Louise, on this New Years Eve (pick a random year) will quit smoking. I will meditate for an hour every morning and evening and devote myself entirely to running-Yoga-walking-weight-lifting-aerobics-fasting-and-positive thinking. Like a soldier facing the long march, I sternly surveyed the year ahead, chest out and jaw firm.
Within a week I was worn out with inner conflict. Nonetheless, it took over thirty years before I realized that struggling to be "better" was about as effective as spanking a child. Instead of creating positive, lasting change, my resolute use of internal force and shame just pissed me off and made me rebellious..... More
RDR 12.24.01: THOMAS HART says of 2001: "Glad That's Over!"
RDR 12.17.01: FAYCAL FALAKY on "The World as Theatre." More provocative thinking from your World's Magazine
RDR 12.10.01: MATTIE LENNON offers "A Kingdom of Song" from Dublin, Ireland.
DUBLIN, IRELAND - When I smell wild woodbine (Honeysuckle, to you) I'm no longer a middle-aged balding, overweight eejit sitting at a computer. No. I am once again six years old, standing in a field, with my mother, on a June evening while buttercups grow profusely underfoot. The smell of chalk dust and it's 1952. And I sit in gap-toothed amazement in Lacken National School. One whiff of creosote and it's the early days of rural electrification and ESB poles are being delivered to West Wicklow by the lorryload. I could go on and on...
Olfaction or smell is our most evocative sense.
'Ever noticed how your childhood home seems smaller than you remember it? When you bring that old cracked LP down from the attic and play it you'll find that your memory has been playing tricks on you.
And maybe even the things you remember feeling...More
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When you look at this cover image are you seeing what you think you're seeing? Look again.
From Lehnert R., Fountain Valley, CA, USA:
Our friend in Connecticut opens his Art Exhibition on the pages of the World's Magazine. We hope you enjoy it. 