Now Is the Winter of Dis Moo-content

Detail from Lynn Landry’s Berkeley Pier Contrast

Yes, I know — but technically it’s still winter until March 21 or so. An embarassment of riches, this ish: Five new essays from a quintitude of talented writers, including Lynn Landry, David Grayson, Suz Redfearn, Maurice Martin, and Ho Lin. This cold, rainy winter we can warm ourselves with poetry from loverly poets Kim Cochran and Michelle Daugherty. In the way of Larfs we’ve a punchy piece from the very funny and talented Max Burbank and a couple of ditties from the editor. Rounding out the travelogs are the last five e-logs from the author’s Hong Kong leg, one year pre-handover. And finally I can share some new art — fine photography, that is, from Lynn Landry of Oakland, Bruce Fleming of Seattle, and Carolyn Schwarzhoff of Baton Rouge.

Max Burbank The comedy of Max Burbank has graced such sites as I-Mockery, Just Laugh, acid logic, Ape Culture, and National Lampoon.	Papa Loves Mambo	Max is Da Bomb... and his repertoire is large.
Kim Cochran Kim’s work appears in the UN-urban Poetry anthology, Green Room Confessionals, Unlikely Stories, and Clean Sheets.	Sand Shark and Grandma Said	Santa Monica? The Apocalypse? Kim Novak? Read on.
Michelle Daugherty Michelle Daugherty’s poetry has appeared in Bright Light in a Dark World, Flying Through the Fly Swatter, and The Poets of Midnight Anthology.	Broken Water	God, but you’ll love this poem!
Bruce Fleming Bruce Fleming is a Seattle graphic artist with a growing web presence.	Digi-Art from Bruce Dene	A handful of nifty photos by the artistic genius behind brucedene.net
David Grayson David Grayson is an Oakland-based essayist and poet whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Modern Haiku, Cortland Review, and Caveat Lector.	Why I Toast	The first, and most germane, of a series.
Lynn Landry Lynn Landry started to compose prose after an intervention by family and friends forced her to stop talking about it and do it. She lives in Oakland, California.	Fallopian Chronicles IV and Berkeley Pier Photos	1. Perhaps the most exciting Fallopian yet. To drop a hint: Nah, let the author drop it. 2. Pix as cool as Berkeley
Ho Lin Ho Lin is a writer, filmmaker, musician, and sometime world traveler who currently resides in San Francisco. He is co-editor of Caveat Lector, and his work can also be found at holin.us.	The Electric Scooter and the Fall of Dot-Com	A very fine piece on the amazing but brief era in San Francisco called the Dot-Com Craze.
Maurice Martin Maurice Martin grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana. He is a Prairie Cajun, not a Bayou Cajun. Anybody who says he’s a Bayou Cajun better be ready to FIGHT!	Why I Toast III	A painful passage into manhood through religious stricture for singly cooked food.
Suz Redfearn Suz Redfearn, an award-winning journalist, dwells in the Center of the Free World (Wash. DC) with her husband Marty and two cats. She freelances from home full time in her jammies.	Why I Toast II	Sandwiched twixt a fallopian tale & toastic dogma — Coincidence? I think not.
Moocat le Meaux Moocat le Meaux grew up in Lockport, Louisiana and is a proud Bayou Cajun. If he ever meets another Prairie Cajun, he will punch him in the eye, I can tell you that!	Dave for Pope and MS-GOV	1. Can the first Cajun Pope be far out? ...Please? 2. E-vil E-mpire: The Next Release
Carolyn Coco Schwarzhoff Carolyn Schwarzhoff is a long-time resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she lives in the Garden District with her husband Jay and their new baby.	Death of the Bayou	Postmortem photos of the ashy remains of a beloved (and somewhat famous) college bar.