#the2ndhand

[rgf-scenarios]

From THE2NDHAND #24 (2007), featuring Friends from Cincinnati by Patrick Somerville

[robfunderburk]

THE2NDHAND #26 will be visual

scrambling to meet my commitment for this quarter's THE2NDHAND broadsheet -- due to printer by month's end and here i am in pencil with a half-baked idear... will feature work by Andrew Davis and printmaker Charles Buchanan besides my scratching, part of which will entail a maze for the verso. normally the broadsheets are short fiction stories but this time we're indulging in cartoons. will post when finished results are out on the streets.

[hyenaspit]

Windows 8/ Window Installation FAQ

Has Microsoft listened to users who have complained about the disappearance of the Start button?

No, however, missing steel can be cut to fit and welded in its place.

Is it any easier to use with a mouse and keyboard?

Yes, in the last 30 years both have successfully worked in 34 states in every region of the United States, from Washington to California, Illinois to Louisianna, and Massachusetts to Florida. It has not worked in Rhode Island.

Where do I get it?

There are limits.

When will Microsoft wrap this up and start selling it, for Pete's sake?

We have an extensive collection of windows and doors, ranging greatly in size and style. We can usually ship in 2 to 4 weeks.

But when will it be for sale?

If you do not understand the instructions, or cannot perform the installation as specified in these instructions, do not install this product.

Tried it, hated it. Can I uninstall it and get my PC back like it was?

Negative. We use vintage steel out of our inventory to match whichever window manufacturer you had in your home.

[themason]

Went up yesterday. In case you missed it.

Tell me how bad it is.

Hugs.

[themason]

And you will never hear the end of it.

The2ndHand was nice enough to publish it. I appreciate that!

[hyenaspit]

All Hands On goes northeast Nov. 17-19

It’s All Hands On touring time yet again, this one to join contributors in Philadelphia, NYC, and Northampton, Mass., for three consecutive nights of readings by contributors toAll Hands On: THE2NDHAND After 10, our 10th anniversary anthology, among others. Here are the details:

Philadelphia, Thursday, Nov. 17, 7 p.m. @BrickBat Books, 709 South 4th Street [phone] w/ THE2NDHAND editor Todd Dills, longtime contributors Peter Richter and (our FAQ editor and Rider University prof) Mickey Hess, as well as Ryan Eckes.

TODD DILLS is editor of THE2NDHAND and author of the novel Sons of the Rapture (Featherproof, 2006).

MICKEY HESS is an Associate Professor of English at Rider University, where he teaches arc welding, mig welding, and creative nonfiction. Recent from Hess in T2H. The Novelist and the Rapperforthcoming in 2012. Find him here.

New Jersey-based writer PETER RICHTER’s poetry and prose have been featured in Monkey Bicycle, THE2NDHAND, decomP and others. He likes wearing flannel, a recent development. He’s a cofounder of the Broadset crew.

[mattpine]

nerves of steel reading

Look at this picture and tell me what you see. 

What's that? You saw my name in it? Yes! That is me!

I'll be there, and l'll be reading my Stupidist Manifesto (awesome, I swear). 

Are you coming? (Yes, you're coming.) 

[dragnetmag-blog]

Fungible Smith never did find the perfect moment to ask her parents about her name. In this way she was fortunate because, whatever reasons her parents may have had for naming her as they did, it is almost impossible that their reasons were as varied, charitable, or whimsical as the ones Fungible imagined over the course of her long and varied youth.