May 13, 2008

great news relayed in pictograms...






can you break the code?

pictogram decoding = Ugly Duckling Presse has accepted me and Angelos's translation of Demosthenes Agrafiotis's Chinese Notebook for publication (2009)...you can imagine i'm elated, you can imagine i'm happy, yeah? well, i'm freaking elated, i'm freaking happy...extremely satisfied to see Demosthenes's work getting on its way to American readers through a press like UDP...huzzah! and opa! and good tidings! and hyphy!

8 comments:

rodney k said...

Congrats, JS! Esp. great news to get before heading off to Paros.

Dimitri said...

We have the same exact initials. But congratulations. That is great.

Logan Ryan Smith said...

pretty rad. congrats, again.

John Sakkis said...

hey thanks guys!

Julia said...

You totally ripped "Huzzah" from my poem. Cheater.

shasta daisy said...

Congratulatons!

François Luong said...

Congrats. But I will have to admit, it's a bit bizarre to hear you talk like your girlfriend.

CLAY BANES said...

I think my long public use of huzzah is firmly established.

Ripping good news. Fantastic. Fantastic.