Nowhere 15, and Raketenwerfer’s Big Snooze
So, Nowhere #15 is up. It’s a good one, bringing the Boys back into the practice room after a long absence.
And then, yeah. Since the past several posts have been all-Nowhere, and the ones before that were Nowhere-dominated, I’ve decided it’s time to tidy things up a little and just admit that nothing much is going to happen here at Raketenwerfer for a while, at least until the seasons shift properly for me to be taking pictures during dogwalks again.
Things will be hopping over at Nowhere Band, though. On top of the comic, which will hopefully be updating weekly (or even more quickly), I’ve also added a newsblog over there where I can talk about the comic and music in general. Keep an eye out for happenings over there.
This place should pick back up in a month or two. In the meantime, um, I’ll try to keep on top of the comment spam, just on principle.
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The Awesome Boys have a special Christmas (or other seasonally-appropriate holiday) gift just for you.
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So the Awesome Boys have a show, but it turns out that there are some hoops you have to jump through if you’re going to play a wedding reception in Fergus Falls.
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The Thanksgiving holiday allowed something resembling dogwalk photos, only in rural Wisconsin instead of south Minneapolis. So here’s Freja on a barely-frozen lake. If you look closely (or link on through to Flickr and check out the large size), you can see that she’s munching on lake ice, which I find kind of hilarious.
Nowhere #9a- Jon Gets a Show, Part 1
Hot off the presses, there’s another installation of Nowhere Band up. This one, the first half of our first two-parter, features some good news for the Awesome Boys. Relatively good news, anyway.
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by Don Pizarro
Kind of like AmNerd’s old Weekly Shuffles, except with short stories from my growing backlog of story collections instead of tunes from Keith’s iPod, here’s a quick, unvarnished review of…
“Contaminant” by Ryan Boudinot
From Boudinot’s collection The Littlest Hitler, this one’s got a great setup: a guy whose third-shift day is off to a bad start because of a corpse that just recently joined his carpool. A premise like that wouldn’t be out of place alongside some of the slipstream collections I’ve been reading.
This may sound like I’m complaining about the way Boudinot’s ending, but I’m really not. The place where the narrator tells us he could’ve ended “Contaminant” really would have been the story’s logical, if unsatisfying, end. I’m glad this story of a man working third-shift at a vegetable plant didn’t just end with him as the triumphant hero. The ending was far more interesting, almost Carver-ish.
But I didn’t get it.
Oh, I understood how it was set up. It didn’t come out of left-field or anything. And, I can’t bring myself to declare, “Nope, doesn’t work.” I feel like if just tried a little bit harder, I could pierce the veil of my tryptophan-induced post-holiday haze and have it all figured out. But it’s been a long weekend. Maybe I’ll have it by next time.
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