renouncing my sexism for seven thousand years

Monday, 31 December 2007

News: Joni Mitchell--on Blue at least--competes with Leonard Cohen's "vaulted" (whose banker? where is the miner's bow tie?) "lyrical territory" (I have thought a lot about what that means; now you can!) and defeats him.Did this need its own blog post?All your questions have been forwarded to the g

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newsweek: 'just mail half of them put the other half in your bag: is bryan coffelt the best idea haver ever?'

Sunday, 30 December 2007

Bryan Coffelt: ohBryan Coffelt: you'll get them in less than a month...Bryan Coffelt: i'm sure they would be there in timeBryan Coffelt: just mail half of themBryan Coffelt: put the other half in your bagMe: yeah good ideaMe: i'm probably only going to bring a small green bag, but it will workBryan

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how did you sleep last night?

Wednesday, 19 December 2007

I have entered a legal war with Tao Lin.My attorney suggests that I not refer to the origin of the war, but you can probably find it if you're not silly.After this legal war is over, and I've won, I will own all of Tao's assets--poodles, book royalties, a Brooklyn bedroom, his $$$ Asian identity--a

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love is out to get you / it's the makeup in your beard

Saturday, 15 December 2007

Let's have some seasonal affection for my local writing friends and their fresh publications:Ben Stein's Boyandquarter in SmokeLong.Rachel B. Glaser's The Kid in elimae.Christopher Cheney's poems in notnostrums.I feel like there are more, but I can't remember. Maybe, later, I will add to this post.

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"there is no team in fuck you"

Monday, 10 December 2007

Hilarious stuff from Christian Bök:Favorite lines:[see blog post title]"did you know that no american has died of old age since 1951?!""the sanskrit word for war means 'a desire for more cows'""we eat cruel and unusual peppermint""when in rome? do as the ramones do!"

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hours like sparrows

Sunday, 9 December 2007

My story "The Peaches Are Cheap" has just gone up at Hobart. It originally appeared in Monday Night, a lovely journal out of the San Francisco Bay Area. Now other people in the world--in cities that start with San or don't--may read it. Or may not. Mayn'

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maxim to writers with high yearly incomes

Saturday, 8 December 2007

If you're going to be insufferable,At least be entertaining. Cheers.

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esoteric levinas snow poem about uncomfortable parties

Friday, 7 December 2007

WE'RE NOT FRIENDS YETIn case I need help,are your hands free?Hugs on bicycles, per-mission: dance.Is it swanky to askfor your pocket toosoon? Terrific lowstakes hello whores.We wanted smores.There's no then what.Chrome and milk chasehome the snowplows.You didn't see thatcoming, nor me aswell: now w

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five feet in one shoehorn

Saturday, 1 December 2007

I have 5 poems in the new Concelebratory Shoehorn Review. Thank you, Maurice Oliver. Other people in the issue: Barry Ballard, Glenna Luschei (her poems: swell), C. L. Bledsoe (good poems here too), John Tranter (editor of Jacket), Maxim Popykin, Ashok N

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yes

Saturday, 1 December 2007

Small Pale Humans by Daniel Spinks is good. Yep. Easy on eyes, too.

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