I am enormously pleased with the response to the November Poetry Jam and have been reading through everyone's submissions. There is still time for more, and choosing a winner will be tough, but I want to thank everyone for their submissions so far and just for taking the time to create something in general. It is so important to us as human beings to create, whether it be writing, music, visual art, reupholstering that chair for grandma cause the cat barfed on it, or the many amazing submissions that have passed through Newgrounds every week for over two decades. Hmm...I'm old.

Newgrounds has been and continues to be a remarkable place for creation, collaboration, and community, and I think I will definitely be setting up some more events in the future.

Now with all that sappy stuff out of the way: there is still time for submissions!! I will be choosing a winner tomorrow, November 11th, and likely late in the day as I will be traveling until fairly late. After that, I have another idea bouncing around in my head for the last half of the month.

Hey that reminds me, have you guys seen All Quiet on the Western Front? November 11th marks the end of WW1 and used to be called "Armistice Day". "The 11th day, of the 11th month, at the 11th hour" or something like that. It is really brutal but I think you should see it anyway. There are a lot of people even today that will try to sell you on nationalism and the glory of war, and it's all bullshit. That's a discussion for another time, go watch this movie.

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