Author: El Portal
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Write West. Send it our way.
We want stories and poems about West. West is a bullet-riddled ’85 Grand Marquis, a gleaming spaceship hovering over Roswell, a cowboy paying for latte with his Amex-card, an alien wondering where in the world to get the golden iPhone. West is where it hurts, West is the rattlesnake you didn’t hear, the dust storm…
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Thinking West: Campfire Coffee Recipe
El Portal has decided to publish its own recipe of a western favorite: campfire coffee. Campfire coffee is an art and a science, despite what many city folks might believe. Moreover, coffee is just as important to the cowpokes of the range as it is to the business folks of the city. Unlike those city slickers who visit…
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Thinking West: Robots Taking Selfies
In the West, autonomous robots roam the endless Wasteland. Their purpose for wandering the Wasteland is a mystery to scholars and wastelanders alike. Some scholars theorize they are collecting and cataloging information for a higher, nobler purpose. Others say these robots are out there trying to make contact with the mysterious peoples who inhabit the…
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Thinking West: UFOs
According to a recent tweet posted by the CIA, the UFOs seen in the Southwest, among other places, were piloted by human beings and not extraterrestrials (a.k.a. little green men). What was the CIA up to? Apparently UFO sitings were really sitings of U-2 spy planes. Check out the CIA’s official history on the U-2…
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Cowpokes, aliens, writers, send us your submissions….
We want stories and poems about West. West is a bullet-riddled ’85 Grand Marquis, a gleaming spaceship hovering over Roswell, a cowboy paying for latte with his Amex-card, an alien wondering where in the world to get the golden iPhone. West is where it hurts, West is the rattlesnake you didn’t hear, the dust storm…
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Breakdown of the Writing Process (via Writer’s Circle)
Be sure to check out the Writer’s Circle on Facebook.
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Infographic: Am I A Famous Writer Yet? (via Electric Literature)
Check out the original source (Electric Literature).
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Thinking West: Alexander Bain and the Great (Western) Migration of the 1840s
Alexander Bain, a Scottish inventor and clockmaker, invented the precursor to the modern facsimile (fax) machine. The fax machine, as it is now known, developed from Morse’s telegraph technology and clock machinery available to Bain. Bain’s ingenious machine received a patent in 1843. Today, the fax machine is a symbol of modern business and ultra…
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Send Us Your Submissions!
El Portal is currently accepting submissions for its Fall 2015 issue. The deadline for submission is 31 March. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the editor at el.portal@enmu.edu. Also, be sure to check out our Guidelines and Terms of Submission pages.
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El Portal is seeking submissions
We want stories and poems about West. West is a bullet-riddled ’85 Grand Marquis, a gleaming spaceship hovering over Roswell, a cowboy paying for latte with his Amex-card, an alien wondering where in the world to get the golden iPhone. West is where it hurts, West is the rattlesnake you didn’t hear, the dust storm…
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Thinking West: The Pineapple Express (Weather)
In December 2014, many Americans watched news coverage of torrential downpours in California. The torrential downpours, still occurring when this post was written, came at a time when California had been in the midst of the worst drought in its history. (Ironically NOAA claimed that California’s drought was not man-made but naturally caused…
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Thinking West: Oregon Founded as Racist Utopia (Gizmodo)
Gizmodo recently featured an interesting article concerning Oregon’s racist past. According to Matt Novak (and historical fact), Oregon was founded as a whites only, racist utopia. Check out the excerpt below: When Oregon was granted statehood in 1859, it was the only state in the Union admitted with a constitution that forbade black people from…
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Thinking West: The West in Pictures
Check out the National Archives’ collection of pictures from the American West.
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When Superintelligent AI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It? (Gizmodo)
Zoltan Istvan (Gizmodo) examines how the world’s religions might handle the creation of superintelligent artificial intelligences. It appears that, much like American corporations in a recent Supreme Court case, superintelligent AIs may find God, too, with a little help, of course…. Like it or not, we are nearing the age of humans creating autonomous, self-aware…
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Never Mind E-Books: Why Print Books Are Here to Stay (WSJ)
Print books are here to stay. E-books haven’t surpassed print book sales. Instead, it seems that E-books are fading fast as print book sales see increased demand…. Ever since Amazon introduced its popular Kindle e-reader five years ago, pundits have assumed that the future of book publishing is digital. Opinions about the speed of the…
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Marlboro Marlboro (Poem by Alexandra Itzi)
Marlboro Marlboro Where are you hiding tonight my curled fingers Search out feeling like briny brackish seaweed The nightstand with its crumpled dollar bill the Offering Pay the tithe Urging urging the tickle in the back of my throat like too much Too much candy maybe how it was growing up the corner store Those…
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