happy new year!!!

it would seem that new year's eve is an auspicious day to sum up the year just ending. furthermore, it is also the end of the first decade of the 21st century. for many of us all we can say to the outgoing year and the decade is good riddance. it's been pretty fucked up. you all have your reasons why and if you don't a quick glance at a newspaper [if anyone is still reading those antiquated formats of current events] or tv news broadcast will remind why these past few years have been hard.

and yet this decade brought us nicholas who was born in 2004. i also managed to publish three chapbooks and hope to publish one or two more in the coming year. it also brought me broadband where as a person ga ga over movies the ability to watch trailers and clips is to a film geek what an open bar is to a professional drunk. it, poetry and the internet, also brought me many friendships. i am a lucky man and poet.

clicking thru a few australian blogs i see that the world is not blinking out at the turn of the new year. i suppose i might be a bit premature and that 2012 is d-day for the end of days. no matter, one can never hedge his bets and to err on the cautious side and check to see if the world is at an end might seem a bit obsessive but hey i recall the fervor of y2k 10 years ago, and one never knows.

at any rate, i just cracked open my third sierra nevada celebration ale and raise it to you, and the new year. will it be a good year? if we have any influence than let's do what patrick stewart playing the captain of the enterprise, jean-luc picard, often commanded, 'make it so'.