+1 expansion and creativity, +4 mobility

People of the internet,

The Semantic wants to reach out to all its readership. All of you, no matter how infrequent, matter to us. And our writers are prolific. And none of us want to write term papers. People of the internet, you mirror that sentiment. This is why we get along.

So this is our proposition:
-We're going to do more reviews and more creative stuff that might not be featured in hard copies of The Semantic.
-The creative content will be posted on new website, The Syntactic (get it?)
-You're going to read it and love it

Now, if you would like to have your creative writing published in The Syntactic, please contact myself (ke.mckenna@gmail.com). There is a decent probability that a Syntactic will be printed quarterly and distributed on PEI.


Edit// All back issues are up! Kindly comment if they don't work.

Issue Six: Another Triumph

Hi everyone, you'll be pleased to see I updated the blog (that's two issues in a row!) with the content of the most recent Semantic.

This issue is completely creative, fictional content. You'll see it there, waiting to be clicked on, in the sidebar. We thank all contributors, and congratulate them all on excellent submissions.


Also, we're done for 2008. See you in 2009!

Righto

Issue 5 in PDF - http://www.sendspace.com/file/3qghd9

Cheap Gimmicks and (finally) More Content

Daisy and me, I’m pretty sure we were conceived at the exact same moment. It was probably Sunday afternoon, probably around 3pm, when my parents were sick of housework and hers were at some exotic hippie convention. It was exactly nine months before I was born, and eight months and twenty-seven days from her birth. It’s the only explanation I can muster for how two people could be so in sync sometimes.
Me and Daisy, we’ll walk around the market every Wednesday. She’ll pack us both a lunch (veggies, mostly, for her, tuna for me. She hates tuna, but keeps some on hand for me.) And we’ll stroll around pretending to buy shit. I know - and she knows I know - that she just likes having a boy to tote around town. And even though we’re not dating, and will never date, we both know her misplaced affection is beneficial for us both. I’d feel badly about it, but I know she gets as much from it as I do. And I’m not a complete ass, on occasion, I’ll do what she wants, pull out her chair for her overlarge ass to challenge, take off her coat, open the door for her . . .

I mean, it’s a fucked up situation. We don’t really have each other, but we don’t really have no one either. Straddling the crevice in between isn’t easy, but it’s better than being on either side. She claims she is better alone, I claim she’s wrong. When she says shit like that, I dunno, I can’t help but be a little offended - as though I don’t know her well enough to know better. Sometimes we get really drunk and lie down, and she tells me all the secrets she knows, but it’s not a big deal. She doesn’t always remember and I don’t have anyone to tell.

Daisy and me, I can’t tell for sure when we were conceived, but I think that is okay because we are both here.

The Semantic encourages you to submit for the upcoming creative issue. There is meager monetary compensation, but mostly, you get your name in print. Submissions can be sent to thesemantic@gmail.com, and while we do not really have any limitations, it is unlikely we will print anything longer than 2000 words. No prior experience nor talent is necessary (clearly).

Submissions are due before Wednesday, November 5th.

True Love Waits

Okay, I suck.

If you want to see the third issue, you'll probably have to wait till I have lots of spare time (like next summer) or go to the library and look at the archived sections.


New issue out Tuesday! Probably won't make it to the internet!

There is a third issue

And it will be up soon, but not today, and possibly not tomorrow.

why?
Mostly my own disorganization, tests and the like. I took last weekend off to visit friends. If you are my profs, feel free to give me extensions.

Issue two, I choose you!

Truthfully, I would prefer not to have this on blogger. Or really, on any internet site that isn't especially catered to my very specific artistic whims. Sadly, I have no design talent, nor do I have any html talent. And no amount of illegal software is going to help in that regard :(

Though we recently received funding, only 500 copies of each (of the first two) Semantic were distributed - so, I copied and pasted the text here for the curious. Don't expect this to be updated on a regular, or even semi-regular basis. Channeling my inner artiste, or perhaps snob, I don't really feel like it's an accurate representation of a newspaper whose charm is reliant mostly on the little things - the little things that do not transfer to the internet well. So don't judge, motherfuckers.


Your grumpy editor,

Kate

hi

By popular demand, and questionable printing budget, The Semantic is making its way to the internet in the only way I know how - BLOGGER!