just gave up trying to post the cover of lips, a really cool drawing by Sandy Lam. so what else is new? a couple of recent publications; eighteen easy pieces in Adam Fieled's PFS Post, this thing just kept returning in the third issue of Mark Young's Otoliths (submissions for the fourth issue close at the end of january)& a poem & three translations of Tomas Ekström in Alexander Deriev's Ars Interpres. apart from that it's christmas, although that's not a big deal here, just another excuse to close town, as if they needed any more of those. They prefer to celebrate reyes in the beginning of january, the day that the three wise men supposedly found baby jesus, that's when they give gifts.