My contributor's copies of The Green Flash came in the mail today. This would be the Summer 2008 issue. I had started to figure the journal had closed up shop. Needless to say it was a nice surprise to find in the mailbox.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Contributor's Copies
My contributor's copies of The Green Flash came in the mail today. This would be the Summer 2008 issue. I had started to figure the journal had closed up shop. Needless to say it was a nice surprise to find in the mailbox.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Writer's Chronicle
The Writer's Chronicle, AWP's magazine has a fantastic interview with Jack Driscoll in the latest issue. Driscoll is one the country's best kept literary secrets. He's written multiple collections of poetry, novels, and one of the best short story collections ever, Wanting Only to be Heard. That's right, I said ever. I could spend days explaining what Driscoll has done for me as a writer, but I'll just say that it is great to see him getting some exposure.
Books on the Cheap
Small Beer Press is having a warehouse clearance sale. Selected titles are $1. Time to get something you've been wanting or to take a chance on experiencing something new. CHECK IT OUT.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Bibliography
I'm getting down to the nitty-gritty with my thesis. Part of the manuscript is a bibliography of two years of reading. Below is mine (I didn't include chapbooks, books of poetry, or a few other things. This is required to be 80 books at a minimum... I tend to read between 1-4 books a week, so I capped this sucker off at an even 100).
Bass, Rick. The Hermit's Story. New York: Mariner Books,
2003.
Behan, Brendan. Borstal Boy. Boston: David R. Godine
Publisher, 2000.
Boyle, T.C. Without a Hero. New York: Penguin, 1995.
Boyle, T.C. Drop City. New York: Viking, 2003.
Boyle, T.C. The Women. New York: Viking, 2009.
Brown, Jeffrey. Clumsy. Portland: Top Shelf, 2006.
Bukowski, Charles. South of No North. Boston: Black Sparrow
Books, 1980.
Burroughs, William S., and Jack Kerouac. And the Hippos
Were Boiled in Their Tanks. New York: Grove Press,
2008.
Butler, Blake. EVER. Detroit: Calamari Press, 2009.
Calvino, Italo. Under the Jaguar Sun. New York: Harvest,
1990.
Campbell, Bonnie Jo. Women and Other Animals. New York:
Scribner, 2002.
Campbell, Bonnie Jo. American Salvage. Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 2009.
Carey, Peter. The Fat Man in History. New York: Vintage
Books, 1993.
Carey, Peter. My Life as a Fake. New York: Knopf, 2003.
Chabon, Michael. The Final Solution. New York: Harper
Perrenial, 2004.
Chabon, Michael. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Harper
Perrenial, 2005.
Chabon, Michael. Gentlemen of the Road. New York: Del Rey,
2007.
Chabon, Michael. Maps and Legends. San Francisco:
McSweeney's Books, 2008.
Cicero, Noah. Treatise. California: A-Head Publishing,
2008.
Clark, Miles Newbold. None Of That Will Do. Now What?
Sunnyvale: No Record Press, 2007.
Compton, D.G. The Unsleeping Eye. New York: Pocket, 1980.
Coover, Robert. Stepmother. San Francisco: McSweeney's
Books, 2004.
Crawford, Stanley. The Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989.
Davis, Claire. Labors of the Heart. New York: Picador,
2007.
Di Filippo, Paul. Fractal Paisleys. New York: Four Walls
Eight Windows, 1997.
Di Filippo, Paul. Little Doors. New York: Four Walls Eight
Windows, 2002.
Di Filippo, Paul. Lost Pages. New York: Four Walls Eight
Windows, 2004.
Di Filippo, Paul. The Emperor of Gondwanaland. New York:
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005.
Di Filippo, Paul. Creature from the Black Lagoon. New York:
Dark Horse, 2006.
Di Filippo, Paul. Cosmocopia. Seattle: Payseur & Schmidt,
2008.
Dixon, Stephen. I. San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2002.
Driscoll, Jack. Skylight. New York: Orchard Books, 1991
Driscoll, Jack. Wanting Only to Be Heard. Amherst:
University of Massachussetts Press, 1991.
Driscoll, Jack. Lucky Man, Lucky Woman. New York: W.W.
Norton & Company, 2000.
Driscoll, Jack. How Like An Angel. Ann Arbor: The
University of Michigan Press, 2005.
Eggers, Dave. How We Are Hungry. San Francisco: McSweeney's
Books, 2004.
Eggers, Dave. What Is the What. San Francisco: McSweeney's
Books, 2006.
Eggers, Dave, Deb Olin Unferth, and Sarah Manguso. One
Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box. San
Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2007.
Everett, Mark Oliver. Things the Grandchildren Should Know.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008.
Fante, John. Ask the Dust. New York: Harper Perrenial,
2006.
Faulkner, William. The Unvanquished. New York: Vintage
Books, 1965.
Fitch, Stona. Give + Take. Concord: Concord Free Press,
2008.
Fromm, Pete. The Tall Uncut. New York: John Daniels &
Company, 1992.
Fromm, Pete. Monkey Tag. New York: Scholastic, 1994.
Fromm, Pete. Dry Rain. New York: Lyons & Burford, 1997.
Fromm, Pete. Night Swimming. New York: Picador, 1999.
Fromm, Pete. Indian Creek Chronicles. New York: Picador,
2003.
Fromm, Pete. As Cool As I Am. New York: Picador, 2004.
Fusselman, Amy. The Pharmacist's Mate. San Francisco:
McSweeney's Books, 2001.
Gischler, Victor. The Pistol Poets. New York: Bantam Dell,
2004.
Gold, Glen David. Sunnyside. New York: Knopf, 2009.
Graham, Barry. The National Virginity Pledge. Portland:
Another Sky Press, 2009
Hemingway, Ernest. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest
Hemingway. New York: Scribner, 1998.
Homes, A.M. The End of Alice. New York: Scribner, 1996.
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. Toronto: Doubleday,
2003.
Jansson, Tove. The Summer Book. New York: New York Review
of Books, 2008.
Jin, Ha. War Trash. New York: Vintage Books, 2004.
Johnson, Denis. Nobody Move. New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2009.
Jones, Shane. Light Boxes. Baltimore: Publishing Genius
Press, 2009.
Jonke, Gert. Geometric Regional Novel. Champaign: Dalkey
Archive, 2000.
Keret, Etgar. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God. London:
The Toby Press, 2004.
Keret, Etgar. The Girl on the Fridge. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Kidd, Chip. The Learners. New York: Scribner, 2008.
Killen, Chris. The Bird Room. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2009.
Knight, Michael Muhammed. Blue-Eyed Devil. New York:
Autonomedia, 2007.
Knight, Michael Muhammed. The Taqwacores. New York: Soft
Skull Press, 2009.
Krauser, Lawrence. Lemon. San Francisco: McSweeney's Books,
2001.
Lesley, Craig. Storm Riders. New York: Picador, 2001.
Lethem, Jonathan. How We Got Insipid. Burton: Subterranean
Press, 2006.
Longhi, Jon. The Rise and Fall of Third Leg. San Francisco:
Manic D Press, 2007.
Mahfouz, Naguib. The Wedding Song. New York: Anchor Books,
1989.
Mahfouz, Naguib. Karnak Café. New York: Anchor, 2008.
Martin, Chelsea. Everything Was Fine Until Whatever.
Portland: Future Tense Books, 2009.
Miller, Mary. Big World. Ann Arbor: Hobart, 2009.
Morris, Keith Lee. The Dart League King. Portland: Tin
House Books, 2008.
Murkoff, Heidi, Arlene Eisenberg, and Sandee Hathaway. What
to Expect When You're Expecting. New York: Workman,
2002.
O'Connor, Flannery. The Complete Stories. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 1991.
O'Neill, Heather. Lullabies for Little Criminals. New York:
Harper Perrenial, 2006.
Parzybok, Benjamin. Couch. East Hampton: Small Beer Press,
2008.
Payne, C.D. Revolting Youth. Sebastopol: Aivia Press, 2000.
Payne, C.D. Young and Revolting. West Conshohocken:
Infinity Publishing, 2006.
Payne, C.D. Revoltingly Young. West Conshohocken: Infinity
Publishing, 2006.
Percy, Benjamin. The Language of Elk. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-
Mellon University Press, 2006.
Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. New York: Harper
Perrenial, 2000.
Pollack, Neal. Alternadad. New York: Anchor Books, 2008.
Portman, Frank. King Dork. New York: Delacorte Press, 2006.
Rember, John. Coyote in the Mountains. Boise: Limberlost
Press, 1991.
Rember, John. Cheerleaders from Gomorrah. Lewiston:
Confluence Press: 1993.
Safran Foer, Jonathan. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Sparling, Ken. Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall. New York:
Knopf, 1996.
Spragg, Mark. An Unfinished Life. New York: Vintage Books,
2005.
Stephenson, Neal. Anathem. New York: William Morrow, 2008.
TeBordo, Christian. We Go Liquid. Iowa City: Impetus Press,
2007.
Thompson, Jim. The Alcoholics. New York: Vintage Books,
1993.
Tower, Wells. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Tregenza, Sharon. Tarantula Tide. Edinburgh: Floris Books,
2008.
Udall, Brady. Letting Loose the Hounds. New York:
Washington Square Press, 1998.
Udall, Brady. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. New York:
Vintage Books, 2002.
Unferth, Deb Olin. Vacation. San Francisco: McSweeney's
Books, 2008.
Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. New York: Ballantine Books,
1996.
Bass, Rick. The Hermit's Story. New York: Mariner Books,
2003.
Behan, Brendan. Borstal Boy. Boston: David R. Godine
Publisher, 2000.
Boyle, T.C. Without a Hero. New York: Penguin, 1995.
Boyle, T.C. Drop City. New York: Viking, 2003.
Boyle, T.C. The Women. New York: Viking, 2009.
Brown, Jeffrey. Clumsy. Portland: Top Shelf, 2006.
Bukowski, Charles. South of No North. Boston: Black Sparrow
Books, 1980.
Burroughs, William S., and Jack Kerouac. And the Hippos
Were Boiled in Their Tanks. New York: Grove Press,
2008.
Butler, Blake. EVER. Detroit: Calamari Press, 2009.
Calvino, Italo. Under the Jaguar Sun. New York: Harvest,
1990.
Campbell, Bonnie Jo. Women and Other Animals. New York:
Scribner, 2002.
Campbell, Bonnie Jo. American Salvage. Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 2009.
Carey, Peter. The Fat Man in History. New York: Vintage
Books, 1993.
Carey, Peter. My Life as a Fake. New York: Knopf, 2003.
Chabon, Michael. The Final Solution. New York: Harper
Perrenial, 2004.
Chabon, Michael. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Harper
Perrenial, 2005.
Chabon, Michael. Gentlemen of the Road. New York: Del Rey,
2007.
Chabon, Michael. Maps and Legends. San Francisco:
McSweeney's Books, 2008.
Cicero, Noah. Treatise. California: A-Head Publishing,
2008.
Clark, Miles Newbold. None Of That Will Do. Now What?
Sunnyvale: No Record Press, 2007.
Compton, D.G. The Unsleeping Eye. New York: Pocket, 1980.
Coover, Robert. Stepmother. San Francisco: McSweeney's
Books, 2004.
Crawford, Stanley. The Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989.
Davis, Claire. Labors of the Heart. New York: Picador,
2007.
Di Filippo, Paul. Fractal Paisleys. New York: Four Walls
Eight Windows, 1997.
Di Filippo, Paul. Little Doors. New York: Four Walls Eight
Windows, 2002.
Di Filippo, Paul. Lost Pages. New York: Four Walls Eight
Windows, 2004.
Di Filippo, Paul. The Emperor of Gondwanaland. New York:
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005.
Di Filippo, Paul. Creature from the Black Lagoon. New York:
Dark Horse, 2006.
Di Filippo, Paul. Cosmocopia. Seattle: Payseur & Schmidt,
2008.
Dixon, Stephen. I. San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2002.
Driscoll, Jack. Skylight. New York: Orchard Books, 1991
Driscoll, Jack. Wanting Only to Be Heard. Amherst:
University of Massachussetts Press, 1991.
Driscoll, Jack. Lucky Man, Lucky Woman. New York: W.W.
Norton & Company, 2000.
Driscoll, Jack. How Like An Angel. Ann Arbor: The
University of Michigan Press, 2005.
Eggers, Dave. How We Are Hungry. San Francisco: McSweeney's
Books, 2004.
Eggers, Dave. What Is the What. San Francisco: McSweeney's
Books, 2006.
Eggers, Dave, Deb Olin Unferth, and Sarah Manguso. One
Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box. San
Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2007.
Everett, Mark Oliver. Things the Grandchildren Should Know.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008.
Fante, John. Ask the Dust. New York: Harper Perrenial,
2006.
Faulkner, William. The Unvanquished. New York: Vintage
Books, 1965.
Fitch, Stona. Give + Take. Concord: Concord Free Press,
2008.
Fromm, Pete. The Tall Uncut. New York: John Daniels &
Company, 1992.
Fromm, Pete. Monkey Tag. New York: Scholastic, 1994.
Fromm, Pete. Dry Rain. New York: Lyons & Burford, 1997.
Fromm, Pete. Night Swimming. New York: Picador, 1999.
Fromm, Pete. Indian Creek Chronicles. New York: Picador,
2003.
Fromm, Pete. As Cool As I Am. New York: Picador, 2004.
Fusselman, Amy. The Pharmacist's Mate. San Francisco:
McSweeney's Books, 2001.
Gischler, Victor. The Pistol Poets. New York: Bantam Dell,
2004.
Gold, Glen David. Sunnyside. New York: Knopf, 2009.
Graham, Barry. The National Virginity Pledge. Portland:
Another Sky Press, 2009
Hemingway, Ernest. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest
Hemingway. New York: Scribner, 1998.
Homes, A.M. The End of Alice. New York: Scribner, 1996.
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. Toronto: Doubleday,
2003.
Jansson, Tove. The Summer Book. New York: New York Review
of Books, 2008.
Jin, Ha. War Trash. New York: Vintage Books, 2004.
Johnson, Denis. Nobody Move. New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2009.
Jones, Shane. Light Boxes. Baltimore: Publishing Genius
Press, 2009.
Jonke, Gert. Geometric Regional Novel. Champaign: Dalkey
Archive, 2000.
Keret, Etgar. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God. London:
The Toby Press, 2004.
Keret, Etgar. The Girl on the Fridge. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Kidd, Chip. The Learners. New York: Scribner, 2008.
Killen, Chris. The Bird Room. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2009.
Knight, Michael Muhammed. Blue-Eyed Devil. New York:
Autonomedia, 2007.
Knight, Michael Muhammed. The Taqwacores. New York: Soft
Skull Press, 2009.
Krauser, Lawrence. Lemon. San Francisco: McSweeney's Books,
2001.
Lesley, Craig. Storm Riders. New York: Picador, 2001.
Lethem, Jonathan. How We Got Insipid. Burton: Subterranean
Press, 2006.
Longhi, Jon. The Rise and Fall of Third Leg. San Francisco:
Manic D Press, 2007.
Mahfouz, Naguib. The Wedding Song. New York: Anchor Books,
1989.
Mahfouz, Naguib. Karnak Café. New York: Anchor, 2008.
Martin, Chelsea. Everything Was Fine Until Whatever.
Portland: Future Tense Books, 2009.
Miller, Mary. Big World. Ann Arbor: Hobart, 2009.
Morris, Keith Lee. The Dart League King. Portland: Tin
House Books, 2008.
Murkoff, Heidi, Arlene Eisenberg, and Sandee Hathaway. What
to Expect When You're Expecting. New York: Workman,
2002.
O'Connor, Flannery. The Complete Stories. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 1991.
O'Neill, Heather. Lullabies for Little Criminals. New York:
Harper Perrenial, 2006.
Parzybok, Benjamin. Couch. East Hampton: Small Beer Press,
2008.
Payne, C.D. Revolting Youth. Sebastopol: Aivia Press, 2000.
Payne, C.D. Young and Revolting. West Conshohocken:
Infinity Publishing, 2006.
Payne, C.D. Revoltingly Young. West Conshohocken: Infinity
Publishing, 2006.
Percy, Benjamin. The Language of Elk. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-
Mellon University Press, 2006.
Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. New York: Harper
Perrenial, 2000.
Pollack, Neal. Alternadad. New York: Anchor Books, 2008.
Portman, Frank. King Dork. New York: Delacorte Press, 2006.
Rember, John. Coyote in the Mountains. Boise: Limberlost
Press, 1991.
Rember, John. Cheerleaders from Gomorrah. Lewiston:
Confluence Press: 1993.
Safran Foer, Jonathan. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Sparling, Ken. Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall. New York:
Knopf, 1996.
Spragg, Mark. An Unfinished Life. New York: Vintage Books,
2005.
Stephenson, Neal. Anathem. New York: William Morrow, 2008.
TeBordo, Christian. We Go Liquid. Iowa City: Impetus Press,
2007.
Thompson, Jim. The Alcoholics. New York: Vintage Books,
1993.
Tower, Wells. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Tregenza, Sharon. Tarantula Tide. Edinburgh: Floris Books,
2008.
Udall, Brady. Letting Loose the Hounds. New York:
Washington Square Press, 1998.
Udall, Brady. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. New York:
Vintage Books, 2002.
Unferth, Deb Olin. Vacation. San Francisco: McSweeney's
Books, 2008.
Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. New York: Ballantine Books,
1996.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Destruct/Construct
Last night I found that I'm a few pages short of the required page count for my thesis manuscript. The whole thing is set around a theme and style, which makes filling that gap a little trickier. There were a couple stories that were initially potentials for the manuscript that have since gotten left out, the only problem there is that they haven't had the work the rest have, and time is a bit short to go overhauling something I haven't worked this semester. I still haven't heard from my advisor, but I decided I should be prepared for the possibility of having to add to the collection, so today I hacked up one of my stories like I was dicing vegetables. I took a story that is over 2,000 words and when one day is complete will likely be larger than that, and stripped it down to under 600 words. It's got the same nuts and bolts, the same frame and chassis, but it still feels like a different vehicle. I don't know if it'll end up getting used, but if nothing else it was fun.
Then,
Just a little bit ago I started writing something new. A story (or something) in verse. It seems to be about the economy and sperm donation. Who knows?
Then,
Just a little bit ago I started writing something new. A story (or something) in verse. It seems to be about the economy and sperm donation. Who knows?
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Shake
I go through a phase semi-often where all I listen to is the Grandpaboy album, Mono. I seem to be doing this currently. It's got one of the best initial punches of any album with the first five tracks. In the midst of this phase I usually start listening to Track 3, "Let's Not Belong Together" on repeat. It's got a killer hook, and the lyrics are sardonic in a delightful way. Even though it makes me feel uncomfortable singing it out loud now that I'm married, it's still an awesome song to listen to at any point in the day. It always feels oddly appropriate. Like right now... 12:48 at work in a children's book store. (the volume's pretty low).
Other than that I've been avoiding a revision... It's the last story for my thesis and it needs a pretty hefty overhaul. One that, at least at this exact moment, I don't feel up to. I find myself sitting here thinking how nice it would be to skip ahead to when the revision is done. Damn sensational movie plots make existing in reality so difficult.
Other than that I've been avoiding a revision... It's the last story for my thesis and it needs a pretty hefty overhaul. One that, at least at this exact moment, I don't feel up to. I find myself sitting here thinking how nice it would be to skip ahead to when the revision is done. Damn sensational movie plots make existing in reality so difficult.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Lucky Hippo Poems
I wrote some really short poems one day at work when I was feeling odder than usual... I offered them to a quirky little journal, and they didn't respond. I would have liked to know what they thought as they read them...
Lucky Hippo and the Northern Lights
He reads and dreams
about the Northern Lights
and doesn't feel cold.
Lucky Hippo Returns from Zion
He doesn't give thanks,
he swats the flies with his tail
and meditates but not for too long
he is not waiting anymore.
Lucky Hippo and Love
"She confuses me with her tattoo stories"
"She smokes a pack a day"
"She doesn't settle, she explodes."
Lucky Hippo and the Other Animals
War is a private affair, he thinks
and is comforted by the sound
of his own breath breezing
and rippling slightly over the water.
Lucky Hippo and the Northern Lights
He reads and dreams
about the Northern Lights
and doesn't feel cold.
Lucky Hippo Returns from Zion
He doesn't give thanks,
he swats the flies with his tail
and meditates but not for too long
he is not waiting anymore.
Lucky Hippo and Love
"She confuses me with her tattoo stories"
"She smokes a pack a day"
"She doesn't settle, she explodes."
Lucky Hippo and the Other Animals
War is a private affair, he thinks
and is comforted by the sound
of his own breath breezing
and rippling slightly over the water.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
It's Something
I'm reading The Unvanquished. It's a very old used paperback. Someone underlined strange portions of it. I couldn't resist.
Also, I wish I was eating that burger. Or any burger. Is it lunchtime?
Monday, April 13, 2009
More About Novellas...
You already know I was thinking a lot about novellas this weekend. Really everyone was. I hadn't really thought so in depth about it, and it was funny to realize that several of my favorite books of all time are novellas. I don't have a ranking of my favorite books (I'm not that obsessive), but I do have a top two books of all time, those being: 2. The Journey of Ibn Fattouma by Naguib Mahfouz, and 1. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Both novellas. Which I hadn't even thought about before. Another of my favorite books, Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson is another novella. Even though it's marketed as "stories," I think that has more to do with the indefinable and probably difficult to market idea of a novella. And Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie is another fantastic one.
Mahfouz is an interesting case, too. He wrote a lot of novellas, and many are being put back in print by Anchor Books, like Karnak Cafe, which was an excellent read (of course, I have found all his books to be so). I was surprised to not see Mahfouz show up on any of the lists that John Madera compiled, but to be fair, I still haven't made it through all of them yet.
For something unrelated to novellas... my latest musical obsession might just be Ezra Furman and the Harpoons. "Take Off Your Sunglasses," has been rocking my brain. There are some songs on their site, and also two Daytrotter Sessions, HERE and HERE. "22 Years Old" is a rip-roarer, too.
Mahfouz is an interesting case, too. He wrote a lot of novellas, and many are being put back in print by Anchor Books, like Karnak Cafe, which was an excellent read (of course, I have found all his books to be so). I was surprised to not see Mahfouz show up on any of the lists that John Madera compiled, but to be fair, I still haven't made it through all of them yet.
For something unrelated to novellas... my latest musical obsession might just be Ezra Furman and the Harpoons. "Take Off Your Sunglasses," has been rocking my brain. There are some songs on their site, and also two Daytrotter Sessions, HERE and HERE. "22 Years Old" is a rip-roarer, too.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
The Processess of My Brain, Stumbling
There was something I was going to say (type) today, but being as my brain isn't working properly as of late I can't remember what it is.
People with better functioning minds have been discussing novellas in wonderful depth. Check it out HERE. This is seriously an amazingly ambitious project that John Madera put together of people talking about their favorite novellas, and in cases what makes a novella, etc. I wish I were able to get my brain working enough to talk more about this. It has, however, made me want to compile a list of my own, which I will do... one of these days.
Here are things my brain can process currently:
The new Neil Young album arrived in the mail the other day. It sounds like old school Neil Young. But really, any NY is good with me.
The new Wilco and the new album from Jack White's latest band both come out in June... as well as the new Eels, the first installment of Neil Young's archives (10 DVDs!), and other things I am forgetting. So, seriously, how's it not June yet? Because yeah, I'll be finished with my MFA that month, too.
Things my brain can definitely not process currently:
That I will be finished with my MFA in two months.
That to get to that point, I have a ton of work to do on my thesis.
But, I've been rambling...
People with better functioning minds have been discussing novellas in wonderful depth. Check it out HERE. This is seriously an amazingly ambitious project that John Madera put together of people talking about their favorite novellas, and in cases what makes a novella, etc. I wish I were able to get my brain working enough to talk more about this. It has, however, made me want to compile a list of my own, which I will do... one of these days.
Here are things my brain can process currently:
The new Neil Young album arrived in the mail the other day. It sounds like old school Neil Young. But really, any NY is good with me.
The new Wilco and the new album from Jack White's latest band both come out in June... as well as the new Eels, the first installment of Neil Young's archives (10 DVDs!), and other things I am forgetting. So, seriously, how's it not June yet? Because yeah, I'll be finished with my MFA that month, too.
Things my brain can definitely not process currently:
That I will be finished with my MFA in two months.
That to get to that point, I have a ton of work to do on my thesis.
But, I've been rambling...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Maybe Not...
I overheard a mother tell her child, "Don't pee in your pants, it's too cold out today."
UPDATE:
Also,
I mean, damn.
UPDATE:
Also,
"So when did tongues turn to swords touching at their points, blades buckled in the instant of thrust to scrape loose and plunge forward, dangerous?"
-from Lemon by Lawrence Krauser
I mean, damn.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Things to Read
Thirteen Myna Birds is currently featuring four poems from my chapbook manuscript, The Webcam Starlet. The poems are numbers 13-10 on the site, CHECK THEM OUT!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
A (Brief) Compendium of Fools
When I was 9 or 10 I left a note on my pillow saying I had run away. In reality I was hiding in my closet, and after my parents spent maybe fifteen minutes looking for me I sprung out and yelled "April Fools." April 1 also happens to be my stepfather's birthday (Happy Birthday, shout out!), and I believe this about the time he said no April Fool's jokes. Ever since I have, for the most part, refrained from pranks and jokes out of respect. But also, they're so much more fun when they're pulled randomly, though mine tend to be a little bit cruel, like "Oh my god I'm on the side of the road, I just got in a wreck, my car is totaled.... just kidding, almost home!"
That being said, I enjoy a good prank and here are some of the day's finest:
-The UPS guy who delivers where I work came in this morning, completely straight-faced and insisted he'd seen on the news that President Obama was going to legalize marijuana. Unfortunately for him, I read the news online every morning, and called him on it rather quickly.
-Justin Taylor @ HTMLGIANT posted this: Tao Lin wins Cave Canem...
-Paul Di Filippo posted this NEWS FLASH
-Locus has a smattering of Special Reports my favorite being THIS
But the best of the day belongs to Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who this morning Twittered about a new NIN album being done and available, with a link to THIS PAGE for those of you who don't know, he's goofing on Chris Cornell's new album, which actually WAS produced by Timbaland and sucks something major. The two men have had a Twitter war of words, and I think with this Reznor (who as an artist I like much less than Cornell, as long as I pretend Cornell's new album doesn't exist) has trumped anything Cornell could ever say in defense of his album.
That being said, I enjoy a good prank and here are some of the day's finest:
-The UPS guy who delivers where I work came in this morning, completely straight-faced and insisted he'd seen on the news that President Obama was going to legalize marijuana. Unfortunately for him, I read the news online every morning, and called him on it rather quickly.
-Justin Taylor @ HTMLGIANT posted this: Tao Lin wins Cave Canem...
-Paul Di Filippo posted this NEWS FLASH
-Locus has a smattering of Special Reports my favorite being THIS
But the best of the day belongs to Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who this morning Twittered about a new NIN album being done and available, with a link to THIS PAGE for those of you who don't know, he's goofing on Chris Cornell's new album, which actually WAS produced by Timbaland and sucks something major. The two men have had a Twitter war of words, and I think with this Reznor (who as an artist I like much less than Cornell, as long as I pretend Cornell's new album doesn't exist) has trumped anything Cornell could ever say in defense of his album.
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