Updated Press Release...

Ok, folks. So here is the press release we just put out for our Kickstater campaign. Check it out & be sure to "Kick"!
-Daniel a.k.a Obsidian

Marduk Publications, Inc. Seeks Funding via Kickstarter to Publish Hegemony, a Historical fiction about Ancient Babylon and Assyria.


The archaic battle between great kings over the Fertile Crescent.
New York, NY, 17th Jan, 2014

Hegemony takes place in Mesopotamia, 3,000 years ago, when the dominion of nations over lesser cities was absolute, and the mighty, despotic, military machinery of the Assyrian empire ruled supreme.
The saga unfolds with the fledgling rise of opposition to the overbearing Assyrian empire, by the scattered tribes that would one day be known as the Babylonians.

This rebellion is begun by the Babylonian leader Nabopollassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar upon a string of small loyal Assyrian cities. The Babylonians then decide to further take on and overthrow greater Assyrian metropolises, such as the venerable stronghold of the city of Ashur, the very seat of the newly installed Assyrian king, Sin-shar-iskun.

Hegemony brings to life the charismatic individuals who shaped the ancient lands of the Middle East in their day. Marduk Publications feels that their stories deserve to be told today, that their lives were important, and that their struggle to break the Assyrian yoke is a lesson for everyone in every century, working to overthrow oppression and injustice.

Hegemony has taken ten years to complete after voluminous and meticulous research and is now in manuscript form of roughly 1,000 pages. Of course there is a great deal of editing and pruning needed to bring the work to publishable quality.

Marduk Publications needs to hire a team of professionals to edit, proofread, format, and design the book. From there they need to implement a marketing plan to reach the maximum audience of readers.

This would include press releases, webpage design, blog tours, social networking campaign and other mediums.

This project will only be funded if at least $45,000 is pledged by Thursday Feb 13, 8:52pm EST.

We the publishers ask and thank you for your generous support.

Kickstarter Page: http://kck.st/1cwudcO

Historical fiction about Ancient Babylon and Assyria

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The archaic battle between great kings over the fertile crescent.

INNA DAZE...

This is an old photo i found of when I used to co-host the Times Square Shout out with Hobobob...back in the days: We were reading poetry & drinking & smoking and performing comedy & drinking and smoking & having live musical performances & drinking & smoking & & well, reading poetry!

Clearly, we were having WAY too much fun in those days!
-Obsidian

The Countdown Continues...

Day 7 & 23 more to go, in order to reach the goal for our kickstarter publishing project & I think I'm going to have a nervous breakdown! just kidding...No, seriously. Yikes!!
-Daniel Canada a.k.a. Obsidian

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1760160869/historical-fiction-about-ancient-babylon-and-assyr

Gratitude for a Project Support...

I can only feel a sense of gratitude to the 3 financial backers we have thus far, for our publishing project. Indeed the experience is a humbling one.
-Daniel Canada a.k.a Obsidian

(I encourage all to check out the site): 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1760160869/historical-fiction-about-ancient-babylon-and-assyr

Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily...life is but a Dream!...

The Grateful Dead

By Obsidian c.2013

God is good

God is merciful

to the dead

to those who have

died before their time

and are left to roam

a scorched & inhabited earth

as citizens

of the Great USA

& of the world

denizens of the departed

partying a little too loud

above the dens

of crowded bars

& Irish pubs

glasses held high

in a myriad of toasts

& braggadocio boasts

of how the glow has

left their eyes

eons

afore the founding

of the world

they brag out loud

@ poetry haunts

in metered poems

haikus

& yes!

iambic pentameters

curse verses for the dead

those flamboyant party animals

set about as traps

in your love-feasts

& soirées

keep your eye peeled

on them

for these are the fortunate ones

counted among the grateful dead

the departed

life of the parties

merrily saying all along

words like

we didn't start the fire

& it will go on

without us...

Hobo Handbook: Memoirs of a Homeless Poet in New York (Excerpt #45)

THE HOBO HANDBOOK: MEMOIRS OF A HOMELESS POET IN NEW YORK

By Daniel Canada c.2010

Next, we step over into the territory and domain of the government, an honorable institution, designed to take care of the many and varied needs of its citizens. In here we will discover just how this bureaucracy functions, when it comes around to providing for the homeless and less fortunate ones. So, let's have a look-see at these establishments, shall we?

                         

                              

        

CHAPTER FOUR THE GOVERNMENT

"The best thing you can do for the poor is not to become one of them."-Rev. Ike [Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter the 2nd]

GOVERNMENT is defined as “A form or system of rule by which a state is governed.” At this point I wish to make a necessary clarification. When I talk about the government, I am not referring to the President of the United States, Congress, The Senate, or the House of Representatives, which, for the most part, work hard in their assigned tasks to serve the country. Neither am I referring to the Governor of the State and the local State organs of administration.

I am, however, referring to the national and local bureaucratic machinery, with its countless, cumbersome, wheels and tired cogs, which churn endlessly to no-one’s advantage but its own.

That’s right. I’m shinning a flashlight into the gnarly cracks and crevices of the hither-to-unknown, little, comfortable, and useless, government, civil-servant-bureaucrat.

These are the jokers, who sit behind enormous desks with their eyes glued to their watches, counting time and waiting to get in enough years accumulated, in order to get a fat, cushy, government retirement check. Yes, I’m referring to these bastards, as well as the apparatus that deals with housing the homeless and, supposedly, helping them acquire a decent place of residence. This includes the office of Public Assistance, which is supposed to provide adequate food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid assistance to those who qualify, as well. If there was such an animal as “Quality Assurance,” you can rest assure these guys and gals would fail woefully in measuring up to the aptitude of their task.

First, I will discuss the pathetic office of Public Assistance.

Already I see the miserly bureaucrats running for cover and ducking under the protection of their paper-latent desks.

(To be continued...)