Daily Cosmonaut #1

With rumors circulating of the potential impending collapse of our local conservative daily newspaper, The Oregonian, we decided that it was time for a back to basics around here. For those of you who have been Cosmonauts since before 2005, you may remember a time when I would write “articles” on our blog about things that I was thinking about, decisions that we had made, and things that could narrowly pass for “news” around here. We’ve found that as the meta-commentary from behind the scenes became less and less, there was more and more misunderstanding about what Microcosm was up to or why we would do certain things. Honestly, that had more to do with an increasing workload and a period of time where the voices and work emanating from our office were decidedly intended to seem more anonymous. But, of course, that made even less sense when the voice contradicted itself.

But it’s a slow time around here, at least around the couch that I pushed into the corner of the office so Ruby, my medical alert dog, can nap with her head on my lap while I work. So we thought it would be a good time to pull up the curtains and reveal a bit more about what goes on behind the scenes. Most of it is admittedly pretty entertaining. Like the time that a thief stole our entire stack of outgoing UPS boxes a few weeks ago, only to discover that the boxes were full of books and disappointedly deposited them in front a school who was polite enough to call the customers. It could have been a total tragedy but there was a perfectly happy ending. And not to jinx ourselves, but that’s how tragedies tend to go around here.

We’re going to have some daily news from here on out! Let us know what you want to hear about from this side of the curtain.