It’s really about two languages. A culture peeling, not along party, age, race, or even the almost-accurate: socioeconomic divide; but, a culture splitting along the fissure of two land masses of language. Two ideologies. Stratified planes. Peeling currents pealing to be heard.
Fellow perraneu,
When you hear something happened a certain long time ago, it can be disorienting. Especially when you’ve reached an age you haven’t yet before.
For example, when I learned neither the movie *Grease* nor the show *Happy Days* were made in the actual 50s. Or the discombobulating moment one first gets to say “25 years ago…” because they remember something which makes their mom say, “Now, how do you remember that? You were 3!”
Maybe it’s also slightly shocking to think in quarter centuries because we remember how long ago 25 years sounded when we used to hear, “25 years ago,” from our Elder Statespeople.
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Twenty-five years before our parents were children, existed another globe. Seemingly a different peoples altogether were singing pop songs on the radio. In the year *Grease* is set, pop music was completely different from what “pop music” means now. The American Song Book, The Standards. That was then. Onion is now. Time has changed us. And it’ll change us again.
In a choose-your-own-adventure media landscape, we aren’t sharing the past as often.
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Do you ache for lineage? Ancient wisdom, progress toward a common goal. Which is which?
In the great context of history, we begin to plot our place. Time never stops moving past us at lightning speed. Nor we through it.
Quality has been wrung out of us. But we know better than to sit and wait while a solution presents itself. Quality, shmality. “What’s to be,” and, “What has been,” have inspired doom.
But like an onion. As soon as we start to truly die. We can start sprouting a new green arm, twisting toward the sun. In its last moments. Growing. Did you know: onions also blossom into gorgeous purple blooms?
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We are shedding. We are recovering.
So. perraneu magazine is back with this September Issue.
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Four times a year we will publish a broadsheet edition like this one you're holding. With other types (like “Music” or “Snacks” in the past) of special issues coming out when they make sense to the collective. And options to receive these “out-of-the-box” issues as thank-you gifts for helping financially, as we strive to keep the print edition free to anyone bored at a coffee shop, like a Highlights mag when we were kids.
There will be subscription and contribution-based funding for our publication. (You know. Like a NPR/PBS type thing.)
We are run by and contributed to, as since the founding of perraneu, by a team with training and experience in journalism, prose, arts administration, gallery showings, theatre arts, music, painting, photography, illustration, funding structures, night life, drag, dental care, nursing, event coordination, library sciences, service industry, consent guidance, fight choreography, religious leadership, poets, and dreamers like you - whenever you feel inspired.
Onionize now!
Go well, as Oprah says, and experience each thin, subtlety of this smelly, translucent, layered issue as we return to the process of decay. The process of growth beyond our skin. Reaching toward life when we thought everything left to give had been given.
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