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1.

Cat Rambo on rejection. If you're submitting to magazines, you need to read this. Then stop whinging about getting rejected and write something else.

And while we're on the subject: as part of the recent Starship Sofa site update, the submission guidelines for articles, poe'ry and short fiction. Send us some stuff: operators are standing by.




2.

I've been downloading a lot of hip-hop from emusic.com lately. Last month Blu & Exile rocked the iPod.

This month Madvillain (if you've listened to the Jack Wakes Up podcast, you've heard some of this before)

But the album I keep coming back to is Raheem Jamal's Boombox. Came out in 2007, but it feels nice and old-school. You can check out a bunch of tracks here. Start with "Right Now".