THIS IS THE BIG REVEAL
The Bucket Of Unused Ideas is now Live...
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Hello Subscribers
we’ve kept it a secret until now
so this, today
is the actual unveiling
the publication of
THE BUCKET OF UNUSED IDEAS
a true first in the world of words
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THE BUCKET
over seven hundred unseen
ideas, phrases, poems, couplets
jokes, one-liners, verses, choruses
stories, ditties, questions, riddles
and ideas again
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digital and randomised
one piece after the other
at random
in a number and variety so huge
as to escape category
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THE BUCKET
you subscribe
you find the link on the current post
you enter
a piece appears
you read you mull you...
you pull or refresh
a piece appears
you read you think you...
for as long as you choose...
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until now we haven’t pushed anyone to a paid subscription
because until now we have had no content
yet we now strongly encourage you to subscribe
and dive into
THE BUCKET
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an exhilarating concatenation of original notions
a high heap of powder kept dry for decades
and that rare thing...
a whole new medium in the realm of literature?
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THE BUCKET
lyrical, poetic, comedic
historical, personal
literal, ironic
wordy, terse, verbatim
political, hard, sentimental
punchy, oblique,
silly, chunky, dumb
and more
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THE BUCKET
monthly subscription for just 5 bucks CAD
which is a pretty great deal
or 30 bucks for a year
or become a Bucketeer
for even more thanks and praise from us
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on this Substack
paying subscribers will find a link to the Bucket
all will also find a Covernote
and, eventually,
a number of writings about The Bucket
and Jem
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yet we would much prefer it if you
immerse yourself in The Bucket
before you come up for air
to, maybe, delve into the Covernote
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so here we go
THE BUCKET
40 years in the writing
20 years in the assembling
8 years in the conception
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here we go
into the unknown
for nothing like this has ever been done before
a colossal number of pieces
with no end, no beginning
no order
no story
no narrative
no theme
no through-line
no unifying concept
no comparison
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from a wandering writer who has published nothing
while making a living performing their writings
for well over twenty years
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you are of course encouraged to share
share
and share again
for Jem is not famous
we have little in the way of resources
its a whole new way of doing things
yet
its not bad
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and so
here it is
that rare thing
a genuine first
all Jem’s eggs in one bucket
a high high heap of powder
his anti-publishing dogma
has scrupulously kept dry for decades
a one-and-only shot
a very full cannon
The Bucket
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cheers
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jem and nick and rebecca
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photo is me
in Damascus [?]
in 1983
around the time i came up with maybe the first idea
which is now, unseen after all these years, in the Bucke
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Circa 2008, on of Jem Roll's fringe fest performance-miracles had a part about The Mall, a necessary & liberating piece of art. I came across a mall fragment here (about deadening 4/5 senses) that landed beautifully on Black Friday. May we all support this magic.