a reminder that I have a Patreon

Scope the link to the right or click this, but I've been running a Patreon for a few years now, which is somehow full of just as much content as this constant ass blog has. I assume folks know, but I'm not sure they do, and I don't know that folks that support my Patreon even know this blog exists. Who knows? The daily photograph/gambleraku I post here actually compose sets of thirty that I post all together on my Patreon. Other things that go on there:

• shard tanka with tanka poems written with google street view screenshots
• fairly regular haiku batches
• a Dollarstore Tournament Fighting tournament set in an unreal town called Dirtrock (where I actually live)
• random sonnets or commentary
• just started a thing called The Maradona which is a soccer-related list thing in memory of Diego Maradona

Anyways, just throwing this in here in case anybody sees this that didn't know about that, and vice versa. I create a myriad of shit all across multiple media, both digital and physical, all of it accessible in different ways but none of it entirely connected. It's more like tendrils wandering wherever rather than a well-organized English garden. It's a beautiful mess, just like me, which makes sense.

New Writing books now available: Shard Haiku & Rojonekku Book-a-Zine

Recently released this past week or so are two new Raven Mack offerings of human language.

#1: SHARD HAIKU: BOOK ONE: which is collection of the some of the sets of ten haiku deemed "shard haiku" because I firmly believe in writing you can stab people with, but not people so much as civilization. These can be seen in some form on the rojonekku twitter or using the shard haiku tag on this site. But this book is a selection of them, in printed form. It makes a great addition to any cinderblock and milk crate book shelf. (There is no kindle version because the font used is a tough one, and that is by design, and kindle processing sterilizes font into a weak spiceless pablum of readability, which I can sometimes abide by, but not in this case.)

SHARD HAIKU BOOK at Create Space, and at Amazon

#2: ROJONEKKU BOOK-A-ZINE: VOL. 1: which is a collection of the assorted ramblings of me. A large chunk of the first half of this is taken from the four of the six issues of my Rojonekku zine, but being I have recently decided to retire from the zine format I previously used (due to costs) and put those poetic-philosophical nonsense gibberish preachings out in this form, there's a lot of new shit too. Essentially, as I explain in the thing (and sub-title it), it is more than a zine but also probably less than a book, if you are inclined to think of book as novel. That's not to say it's not as good as a book, because you will read the fuck out of this more than most "real" books. I'm pretty great at the unreal. (And there is kindle versions of this one.)

ROJONEKKU BOOK at Create Space, at Smashwords, and at Amazon


Please, if you enjoy my beautiful nonsense, support my beautiful nonsense. And tell others if you love me, by word-of-mouth or goodreads or amazon reviews or whatever the fuck makes sense to you. I have crabgrass creativity, thus the algorithm pesticides me deep into obscurity. All I really have is word-of-mouth. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PAGAN MC!

1st of The Month Rojonekku WFA support drive

So I am about to drop another two new issues of Rojonekku Word Fighting Arts zine (V and VI), and also about to mail about all the back issues of the first two issues I have left out this weekend as well, so wanted to throw this rock into this empty digital creek in the middle of the fogged out cyber-woods here… (so quiet, the birds are making noise, though you can hear them boys on their dirtbikes roaring off in the distance, at least it’s not hunting season, at least not legal hunting season).

Essentially this is me reminding and encouraging you to support Rojonekku Word Fighting Arts, which is a way of saying subscribe to the zine, except along with four issues of the zine you also get:

• free copies of the ebooks versions of whatever I put out
•  chance to be the one person a month who gets a railroad haiku spike
•  plus your copy of each issue of the zine will have a personalized haiku
• probably other shit too

THE LINK FOR SUBSCRIBING

Or you can paypal me direct to ravenmack at gmail.com - $30 for US ppl for 4 issues (plus all the other stuff), $40 for international for 4 issues (plus other stuff - a dude from Australia won the April haiku spike).
As for the free ebooks, I just started a new endeavor of $2 ebooks called N.E.W.tourneys a couple weeks back. The first one is called Sumo of BOOM! and is a sumo tournament, sort of, which takes place on New Earth, which is just like True Earth but also nothing at all like it. The second one (hopefully out by the end of April) is Mountain MystixXx, and is also a tournament but a poetry competition between mountain recluses as judged by crows. Each N.E.W.tourney will be a tournament of 8 entities, and the style is uh hard to explain, not really experimental so much as no fucks given. But you also get ebooks (as supporter) of all the old shit I’ve released too. It’s there for the asking if you subscribe/support Rojonekku.

(exhibit 69: railroad haiku spike)

The railroad haiku spikes are this thing I love to do where I wild harvest railroad spikes from alongside the James River where I power my spirit during these depleting times, and then I carve fucking haiku into the spikes. I am likely giving myself some horrible form of future cancer using the processes I use to engrave these things, but what is not giving us all horrible future cancer at this point? And if everything’s gonna give us future cancer, I’d rather make art than hot dogs, know what I mean? I used to sell these, and people have always loved them, but I decided to just do them for supporters, one a month, drawn random lottery style from the list of subscribers. In other words, it’s pretty much the only way to get a railroad haiku spike, at least from me. And anybody else doing them probably ain’t doing them right.

The Rojonekku Word Fighting Arts zine itself is one of my favorite things, but also fairly obsolete. I mean zines themselves are archaic, but my zines in particular are text heavy and I don’t really give a fuck about comics. The text is likely going to be broken up by cryptic images I tore out of some old book, or something worse. For example, this upcoming issue VI, I was about to lay out old images as the background for the text as I was literally cutting and pasting (actually taping – paste is for eating) and thought “man, taping old cryptic images is played out” so I took them outside and spray painted them with stencils and railroad spikes and scrap metal and shit. The master looks beautiful, and once depleted by inferior photocopying techniques it’s gonna be even more beautiful.

Ideally, if I could get ten new subscribers/supporters, it’d cover over half of how much I blow on two issues. (Previous subscribers can also re-up whenever they want.) I know it would make sense to be like “I’D LIKE TO GET ENOUGH NEW SUBSCRIBERS TO SUPPORT THE ENTIRE THING” but realistically, people don’t necessarily support things like this too easily. It’s not traditional, like you can’t be like, “Oh I gave $20 now I’m gonna get a comic book and a thank you card” like a traditional crowdfunding. Not even sure I’d consider this crowdfunding. But there are only 150 copies of each issue, and I’m subscribed out at like 30 I think? If I could get 20 new subscribers or re-uppers each two issues, I’d have that part covered at least. But I’ll be lucky if nine people have clicked the link to this page, and even luckier if even three of them read this far. Of those three, I bet two are already subscribed and the other one is broke.

So if you don’t want to or can’t subscribe, spread the word. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PAGAN MC (which is my way of saying if you can support what it is I’m doing – financially if you got it, but spreadaliciously with the word if you can’t).

1st of The Month Rojonekku Word Fighting Arts support

I’ve had a couple new issues of the ROJONEKKU WORD FIGHTING ARTS ZINES (III and IV) printed for a couple months, but ain’t mailed the ones out sitting at my house because ya know life gets real as fuck sometimes. But I’ve been labeling shit this weekend, filling in haiku blocks on back pages of copies to subscribers, and be mailing them out starting this week. The rest I’ll give away to vagrants. But being each issue’s print run is limited to 150, and there’s way more vagrants than that on this American Earth, figured I’d tell you random internetface about subscribing to my zine, because I’m kinda switching that shit around and it’s not really a subscription any more so much as a support mechanism type thing, sort of like one of those wack ass patreons that people do so that they can do longform research about philosophical nothings, or think in public, or whatever.

ROJONEKKU W.F.A. SUBSCRIPTIONS

I don’t really have time to pretend I’m that important. I do a bunch of shit, always, even when life has gotten real as fuck, and even more so when it eases up on me. But your “subscription” support agreement thing whatever you want to call it would run four literal issues of the ROJONEKKU WORD FIGHTING ARTS zine. I got two more issues on the back burner but ain’t felt like printing them until I mail these out. Four issues might last you three weeks, might last you two years, hard to say, but I’d like to get to rate of two issues per month eventually. That’s my target.

But I figured “Hey, if fuckers are gonna support me, why not give them other weird crap I do too?” So I figure anyone subscribed actively will also be entitled to ebook copies of whatever I put out under my own name or under Workingman Books. This will include e-copies of the zines (coming this month) and a new project I got coming out in the next week or so that’s too ridiculous to really even describe but it’s called New Earth Writing Tournaments. I’m pretty excited about how ridiculous it is though. I hope to start doing one of those a month too.

Now all this Workingman Books, electronified copies of the zine, and New Earth Writing Tournaments will be available to anyone, outside of support (at a price) so I guess you could be like, “Well, I don’t know, I’ll just ala carte this nonsense gibberish, Raven Mack.”

Fair enough. But I’ve also decided that for me, philosophically, art is more about spiritual magic than commerce, always. I don’t respect people who do art (music, images, objects, words) on the basis of money, which is why I probably don’t think much of patreons or even having to write out something like this explaining why all this might be of monetary value to you. I’m no natural marketer. But one of my favorite creations of the past few years of my life has been the railroad spikes with haiku carved into them. 

And they are an outside endeavor, thus dependent on better weather, but I’ve been conjuring and collecting and plotting new batches. So I’m planning on making a dozen a year, maybe more, but at least that many. And I’ll be giving them away, one a month, in a randomized lottery type thing for all the people who are active subscribers/supporters. They are powerful spiritual magic objects. Demand for them has always been high, so limiting access to subscribers is kinda weird, but also forces me to limit myself in how many I make. (They kinda kick my ass to make too many of them, at least all at once.)

ROJONEKKU W.F.A. SUPPORT

So if you wanna support the dirtgod arts, support that shit. If you already support the dirtgod arts, thank you. (If you are already a supporter, you should be getting an email from me in the next few days about the secret shade spot where you can get the above ebook things, keep up with the haiku spike lotteries each month, and follow the New Earth Writing Tournaments, or ignore it all.) $30 US ($40 rest of world) ain't a lot to access my assorted detritus arts. (And of course, you can always see whatever's here at rojonekku.com for free, if you consider having all your online activities tracked from afar as "free".)

Back to your regularly scheduled Raven Mack nonsense gibberish…