<p><center><a href="http://www.coppeneur.de/cms/front_content.php?idart=75"><img src="../img/Schwarzbier_Sch.jpg" alt=""></img></a></center></p><p>Hopefully everyone survived the so-called "Holiday Season" and their new year's initiation, and is looking forward to a 2011 bursting with pseudo revelations on the despicable nature of the world and the human race. AJ, Anton, Wolf and I wish you all a joyful year to come. Well, they probably don't, but they have no say in the matter.</p><p><br />My plans for the new year are to continue putting the final touches to<em>Deathscent</em>, the long awaited novel by dead poet Wolf Rabenhorst. I am also working on a fantasy novel featuring Gilles de Rais, the Pied Piper, and Poppy de Vine (yes, spelt like that), which promises to be more accessible than my poems and short stories, and which will hopefully be completed within the next few months. Other than that, I will hopefully record the remainder of<em>Heart:Scatter:Logica</em>l for release as downloadable sound files, a project that is in limbo due to a cold I got a few months ago that developed a clingy relationship with my throat lining. AJ is planning<em>Heart:Scatter:Logical vol.2</em>, and I hope to publish my children's story<em>The Seven Belly Buttons</em>; sadly no one with artistic talent can be found to illustrate it.</p><p>Don't forget that signed copies of<em>Heart:Scatter:Logical</em>can be ordered from <a href="http://aj-books.com/">aj-books</a>. Those that are boycotting Paypal and/or prefer real shops can now get it from <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><strong>Freedom Bookshop</strong></span> in London.</p><p>(Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX, City of London, United Kingdom). My sister SIG is having an exhibition there too, starting tomorrow 6. Jan, so don't miss that if you live in London or are in the area.</p><p>Click below to get to the event:</p><p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#%21/event.php?eid=185694154790465"><img alt="" src="../img/Almanac-of-the-Discarded.jpg"></img></a></p><p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#%21/event.php?eid=185694154790465"><br /></a></p><p>On a ridiculous note, anyone playing Cityville who is friends with me on Facebook can get their own Sweet Oblivion tavern in their town, just ask :P</p><p>I will now resist the urge to devour more Schwarzer Abt chocolate and go and cook something as I am seeing triple.</p><p><strong>Sweet, Sweet Oblivion</strong><br /><br />Let me forget<br />The things I''ve done.<br /><br />Let sleazy,<br />Sugary,<br />Queasy<br /><br />Nightmares<br /><br />Divide my mind<br />From the things inside.<br /><br />The thoughts as acid<br />As anthrax;<br />The memories as divine<br />As disease.<br /><br />Dissect my unconscious fear<br />Of all things near<br />Of all things dear<br /><br />Dear Darkness<br />Come.<br />To sweet, sweet<br />Oblivion.</p>