Glutter Plugs and Doodles.

Mark Hoback from Fried Green al-Qaedas is the managing editor of a bi-monthly “The Best of Salon Blogs” called the Virtual Occoquan.

I never advertise it, because if you were part of the Salon Community, you had to be pretty out there not to know of its existence. Each and every one of us at some time is featured on it.

Since I moved, I miss my old comrades a lot, and I was relieved Mark said, “Yes” to my request to still be up for consideration even though I am not on the Salon Servers anymore. Glutter will always in spirit be part of that liberal lefty intellectual lot who are prone to and exist for ranting against injustices, messed up societal rules, unfair political systems and unique self expression.

It’s odd for me to care so much about my affiliation. Generally, I am chronically allergic to committing allegiance of any kind to an organized cell. Even if it is just a group of individuals collected on a server due to the fact we all read the same online magazine.

It’s where I cut my teeth, and I purposely choose to be part of Salon because I believed it would give this blog some weight. But as I surfed through the community, I realized rather quickly if I was ever going to even make a squeak next to these big big girls and boys -with more degrees and specified knowledge than a graduate department and more spunk than your neighbourhood independent book store- this self indulgent little project called Glutter better be rocking itself.

It did well. And it was very nice to be acknowledged in the big world of serious writers and bloggers. (Thank You.)

The new issue is called “Snap Shot.”

Virtual Occoquan