The OblivionSpin Occasionally

 Volume 1 Issue 4 featured 100 truths, one of the suggested fall activities, scattered throughout the zine. Due to copying, cutting, pasting and everything else, some are missing, obscured, faded or otherwise difficult to read.  Here's the full list.  100 truths 1. My name is met 2. It’s my initials 3. And a small play off my older sister being mel 4. Making sure my next legal name has the same initials was more important to me than anything else when choosing a name 5. I always assume most facts about myself are obvious 6. I have a difficult time conceptualizing that anyone would dislike me 7. (I am either conceited or oblivious) 8. I have an overwhelming fondness of marshmallows 9. Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch 10. Und der grosser Fehler, den ich gemacht hab’, war nicht in Deutschland zu studieren 11. I am convinced not submitting that scholarship application in 11th grade was what split my life onto this path 12. I think life is meaningless ...

 In 2012 I wrote a poem I never finished, titled Perhaps.  Oh, I made the start of a series of mini zines of it, I edited it, I reimagined, revisited and revised it- but I never truly finished it.  "Perhaps" started in a small square book I made- pocket sized, and was written by hand in a scrawl wherever inspiration struck me over the course of a spring month or so. If ever I stalled on what to write next, I just wrote the word "Perhaps" again and saw where it went from there.  It was one of those poems I considered to be my magnum opus- and I still hold some of the different versions (which never got the exposure to the world that they deserved) in high regard.  But this blog post is not about "Perhaps" it is not entitled "Perhaps" and I still have not given up on my to do list that "Perhaps" will have its moment.  This post is about "An Anachronism in the Making" That's more like it. In 2016 I was in my art and writing r...