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Featured image<\/a> by Eneida Nieves<\/a> on StockSnap<\/a><\/em><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Editorial Board<\/h6>\n\n\n

The M\u00c9LANGE Occasional Journal of Everything <\/em><\/span>sprang nigh fully formed into the sloshing bathwater of our consciousness during a tipsy pique of hypomania one Saturday night while we were doing, of all things, the dishes.<\/span> Proof that, as the erudite among us know well already, glimmering gemstones of genius are sometimes unearthed in the mundanest of settings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve any doubts as to our intentions, we invite you to cast your eyes on our nameplate. The very title of our feisty little rag should, per se<\/em>, disabuse you of any misconceptions. Much like the disposition of any member of our editorial staff, the Journal<\/em>\u2019s title is just as audacious, ambitious and pompous as it is noncommittal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What shall we publish? Don\u2019t race all at once for the dictionary! We\u2019ll save you the trouble. \u201cM\u00c9LANGE\u201d is a noun borrowed from French, meaning \u201cWe\u2019ll publish whatever we damn please.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How often? Ask any logophile: \u201cOccasional,\u201d adjective, means \u201cWhenever we damn please.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bond be damned. Fictional character or not, the idiot has no idea how to order a drink.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJournal\u201d means \u2014\u2014 well, we\u2019re grasping for, and failing to arrive at, anything jocose or sarcastique<\/em>, so any definition found in Merriam Webster<\/a> will have to suffice. Except we advise you to ignore the \u201cdaily\u201d bit (from the Old French jurnal<\/em>, reflected in the modern French jour<\/em>, quite literally \u201cday,\u201d as in soupe du jour<\/span><\/em>). Because between our day jobs and our million hyperfixations, we\u2019re almost certainly not going to be doing anything daily<\/em> here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in case you missed the whole \u201cM\u00c9LANGE\u201d bit back at the front, please allow us to flog the proverbial equus mortuus<\/em> with the \u201cEverything\u201d at the tail end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything: that\u2019s what we\u2019ll produce, publish and proudly present to you. We solemnly swear to write, draw, paint, sing, photograph, recite and\/or ululate wantonly at you whatever (and whenever) we damn please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Inceptis grauibus plerumque et magna professis purpureus, late qui splendeat<\/span>