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Among the most dangerous of human failings is overestimation of their own abilities, and those of the people around them.
Against all odds, you're reading the third issue of The Hundred and Four. In the abbreviated second issue, I chose to ignore several facts. The holidays, celebrated by most people, dragging people from family home to festive event and back. There's also winter's unrelenting haste, sapping at personal budgets and forcing people to stay on the grind like a stripper's thong. The sheer dangerous drama of trying to live life and get all these endless streams of words out of our heads. Hubris, without a doubt, and it came back to haunt me in an abridged body of content and diminished time for me to assist the writers with their work. Not my best effort, and the responsibility for it falls solely on my shoulders.
Why is this called "The Black Issue?" For a number of reasons. Unlike the Black Albums by Jay-Z, Metallica or The Damned, I can admit previous efforts were more like the one by Prince -- ambitious, flawed, rushed and filled with unfinished business. This black cover signifies moving on from the past, looking at new ways to do business and accepting the losses that occurred. There is no greater power than that, and no color symbolized power more in the ancient world than black (white was for funerals). "Given the writers involved, isn't every issue a "Black" issue?" Ha ha, funny, no.
Things may not happen every week. My original intention with that was increasing traffic, my old-fashioned web marketing instincts told me that the secret to success is frequent updates. However well that can work for creating traffic, it's crap for starting something new. Second of all, I have to reduce scope dramatically, only posting when everything shows up. That way I won't have the weird lag times that I had to fill with my own stuff.
This is not to say that regularity is a thing of the past. Far from it. I've started working on a project that will help ensure at least bi-weekly or monthly updates. I'll likewise include the best of regularly presented material from the apprentices, as they do write outside of this work.
So that's it. Enjoy what you get, and please check out the RSS for updates. Once we get the machine running more smoothly, I'll add things like commenting, a newsletter update and so on. I need this to walk before it can fly, so once it does, it can truly be glorious among the stars.
What's In The Black Issue?
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