Diary of a Mad Editor

I certainly hope all you kiddies had a lovely holiday, and I wish you all a splendid New Year’s Day (really and truly. I’m being perfectly serious). Anyway, since the end of the year is a time of reflection and renewal, it’s as fitting time as any for our second annual recap of what was considered, based upon feedback from comments and emails, to be the best of this blogs posts during this past year:

OO Mary Sue, Whatever Are We Going to Do With You?

Short Stories Live Forever, It’s Only the Writers Who Die Slow, Agonizing Deaths

If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It or, Who the Hell is Shawn Bentley and Why Should We Give a Fuck?

He Must’ve Been Unconscious

Sometimes Talking to a Wannabe Poet Makes Me Feel Like a Dumb Polack

I Can Teach You to Write a Book in 24Hrs

5 Little Words That Guarantee Your Publishing Success

I don’t Know Nuthin’ ‘Bout No Writin’

I Can Teach You How to Write in 3 Little Words

He Must’ve Written His Story in Crayon

He Says He Was Only Joking, but I’m Thinking He’s Just a Joke

Revenge of the Troglodytes

I suppose it’s true that practically everyone is bad at keeping New Year’s resolutions. I’m terrible at keeping them. Well . . . maybe not that terrible. I usually keep about a third of them. Every year I make a list of things I want to accomplish during the year. I always start-out gung ho but then I get lazy, distracted, diverted in my purpose and I’m left with a list of unfulfilled promises. On one hand, this inability to meet some fundamental goals disturbs me. On the other hand, had I spent more of my energy on my list this past year, I probably would have spent less time on this blog, and I like spending time on this blog. But that’s the thing isn’t it? Resolutions are for people who think they can control their universe — more than that, they are for people who think they should control it.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last couple of years is that we don’t control the universe and the more we try, the more the universe will bend us to it’s will. And those diversions that sidetrack us from our goals? Well, that’s what life is all about isn’t it? Being open to discovery. So yeah, I’ve made a list of New Year’s resolutions because I’m a sucker for making lists but I know I won’t be crossing off too many items off that list. And that’s okay. Fuck it, and Happy New Year.

People who aren’t from New Jersey just love to poke fun at my home state. They act like New Jersey is just one big garbage heap with nothing to do.  Like the only thing we have going around here is crime, murder and gang violence (well… there is a lot of that in certain places, but I’m not exactly walking around fearing for my life).

Well, if you’re planning a getaway, you could do worse than a week in New Jersey. There’s a little bit of everything here. And you haven’t lived until you’ve been on a Jersey Shore beach Vacation

Take Wildwood, for example. Just one of New Jersey’s many beach resort towns, it’s home to the world-famous Morey’s Pier and water park. As amusement parks go, Morey’s is a pretty fun time. With 3 separate amusement piers and 2 beachfront waterparks, there’s something for all ages.Whether it’s the Sky Coaster or the Sea Serpent, the Formula One Raceway, or the simple family fun of miniture golf, if you can’t find something fun to do, you must be a corpse. There are plenty of fun things to do in New Jersey Forgetaboutit!

And until January 9th, Morey’s is offering 40% off on season passes to all their parks as part of their annual holiday promotion. What could be better than that?