The Universe zigs, we zag.

Sure, tomorrow’s the Summer Solstice, a point punctuated here in Jersey by late night explosions of M80s and the impending onset of temperatures in the upper 90s.

But Jersey Devil Press? We’ve got our sights set on the Winter Solstice, because that’s the last thing anyone would expect.

Ever wonder what it’s like to be young, drunk, and staying at a hostel in Norway at the start of winter? Rijn Collins captures the experience perfectly in “The First Thing I’ll Need Is a Goat,” a wonderful little nugget from the mighty JDP archives.

We’d have thrown it up in December but according to the Mayans we’ll be knee deep in cataclysms by then.

Live for the moment, people, live for the moment.

Just a quick update on our Kickstarter, you know, the one in support of Eirik Gumeny’s Exponential Apocalypse: Dead Presidents and Ryan Werner’s soon-to-have-an-official-title super-book. We’re at the mid-point chronologically and are about two-thirds funded. But that’s no reason to let up on obnoxiously flogging our need for cash to help publish and promote these amazing books (and maybe one other if we run way above our fundraising goal). Help us out if you can. The sooner we hit our goal, the sooner we’ll shut up about it. Win-win, folks, win-win.