Search Words (lame excuse for a Flarf post)

The most offensive search words that lead someone to this blog (to date). Sorry to disappoint you, no grannies here. I also like grandma's as possessive. I wonder what she'd have... or have going on:

cocksucking grandma's power steering motor needs repair.

cocksucking grandma's slippers are missing again.

cocksucking grandma's terrier acted up at the dog groomer.

Thunk interview

Here.

No one will read this.

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Biography for MLKNG SCKLS

Haneen Alshujairy fled Iraq in 2003 with her family, leaving behind extended family in both Fallujah and Baghdad. After seeking asylum in Jordan for three years, she relocated to Egypt where she is finishing a degree in Dentistry at the Modern Sciences and Arts University in Cairo. Haneen has collaborated with Justin Sirois for the past year on the novel Falcons on the Floor and this collection of stories, MLKNG SCKLS.

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I probably should have posted something like this sooner, but wasn't exactly sure how to go about it.

Swine Flu - Google Maps

Here

power quote

from Slate:

"There's been a lot of talk about Twitter recently, which is a shame because my biggest hope for Twitter had been that it would spark a brevity movement."

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John Dickerson

Weekend Report

A mugging. A break up. Bea Arthur is dead.

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FRATT

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mainly because I hate National Poetry Month

I have dubbed April,

National
Publishing Genius
Month.

Take that Elizabeth Alexander!
You twerp!

moleskine - bobby

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Tax Lo - Taxlo - Taxidermy Lodge

the legend:

http://www.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=17928

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Thanks for the shout out, Cullen and Simon. This makes me think I should post some of the vintage Tax Lo photos on this blog.

Narrow House reads in Marfa 5-1-09

Jamie Gaughran-Perez, Lauren Bender, and Justin Sirois with music by Ross and Joe Cashiola at the Marfa bookstore on 5-1-09. Midnight. So that's actually 5-2-09. Yeah.

meatloaf

Birthday surplus.

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happy to report

Narrow House is now with SPD:

http://narrow-house.blogspot.com/2009/04/verb-sap-now-available-through-spd.html

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Jamie, you're the man.

M, you're the M.

moleskine - 2

moleskine - 30

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hhrrmm...

If you string a series of clichés together in an innovative way, do you still ultimately end up stating something cliché?

http://www.cinema.philips.com/

intro for Ryan Schneider

A great gallery in LA is publishing a book of Ryan's paintings and he asked me to write something it. Here's just a sample:

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after Ryan Schneider’s Hideout

Elbow to elbow he arrived with him like they all arrived with them – besieged by Pabst through the naked birch, by the way or by defogged Celica. He’d come. The snows came too. Books fluttered from branches, stamping slender declarations in the snow. Nightstands and empty wine bottles marked the trail. They marched together through the icy underbrush. It was like marching through stale cake icing. He thought, there’re boots designed specifically for walking through cake icing, but I don’t own a pair.
Shit.

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Ryan's work:

here.

and

here.

truncated Weekend report

Back from Miami and still fleeing ill, trying to write a piece for Ryan Schneider's new book of paintings, that pumpkin appetizer thing, Joe Young as the multi-German, we are insane, City Lit Fest, sandwiches at Trinacria (one of Baltimore’s best kept secrets), ring pops for the homeless, Phu’s opening at Off the Wall, Joe Cashiola get a number, the handle of Beam is EVIL, breakfast in bed couch, still sick?, Resident Evil 5 is a little annoying.

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Baltimore is Reads in Poets & Writers

Congrats Adam Robinson and Peter Cole.
I have a nice quote too:

http://www.pw.org/content/taking_poetry_public

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excerpt from Falcons on the Floor in Gutter (magazine)

http://www.guttermagazine.com/blog/columnists/brokenspine/61-brokenspine/385-new-fiction

Secondary Sound review by P.H. Madore

http://phmadore.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/review-secondary-sound-by-justin-sirois/

late birthday Weekend report

(in whatever order I can remember) SMORES! the patio is a success, fire impliments, your fish tacos always rule, Romeo E Julietta x 6, a cigar clamp-holder thing that will go on my mechanical lawn mower, Chris Nealon sent me a beautiful book about books, grab the harpoon! meatloaf cupcakes by Phu, tickets to this American Life, never before seen photos of Saddam, Greg drunk dialing Ryan, much dancing, convincing Jerry to move to Baltimore, Jasper Johns birthday cake*, Shaun Preston passed out in the mulch, I think we scared the bejesus out of my neighbor, Mad World 1/2 played, mulch on the sofa, Jerry passed out in my office, failed to get to Abby's, returned Shaun Preston's glasses, off to Miami.

*by Emily Johnson

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Wii Fit (for bros)

Assuming this game isn't terrible, I think I just discovered the best way to keep that stubborn winter bodyweight from accumulating. When will developers sync up a treadmill to a fast paced first-person shooter? I guess what I really want is a 10x10 foot trackball embedded in my living room floor -- I can justify eliminating the basement for that, right?

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http://www.sega.com/madworld/us/index.html

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Weekend Report

Booking tickets to Des Moines (do I know anyone there?), minor patio flood! Transmodern, Jamie GP provides nametags, clothes swap, patriotic pool stick, Adam Robinson, DO NOT insult this man who happens to be an ex Navy Seal, Captian Crunch French toast at Blue Moon, DAMN! gave Bender a chocolate cat and a burrito voucher, two hours in Outdoor World: the white tail deer tell me stories, mesquite chips, Transmodern, human foosball BRILLIANTLY executed, Adam Good commands the recombinative, Robison's under painting, magic key and they nice old DC hipsters, smoking the gummy pipe, no piece of Ikea furniture is constructed perfectly, fireside breakfast, super crab feast in Ellicott City, Executive Chef is to Sous Chef as Porn Star is to Fluffer, nuking the mutants, more fireside nothing.

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BBAATTTTEERRYY

90 cents for a 100 mile charge?

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/04/we-drive-nissan.html

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I might already be obsessed with this whip.

moleskine - hair pet

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MLKNG SCKLS in Lamination Colony

I have a new story in the spring issue of Lamination Colony.

laminationcolony.com

or this might be easier:

laminationcolony.com/jsirois.html

other contributors include:

Krammer Abrahams, Blaster Al Ackerman, Stephanie Barber, Lauren Becker, Michael Bible, Darcelle Bleau, Robert Bradley, Kim Chinquee, Luca Dipierro, Shatera Davenport, M.T. Fallon, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, Adam Good, Jac Jemc, Jason Jones, Shane Jones, Aby Kaupang, Stacie Leatherman, Karen Lillis, Aimee Lynne-Hirschowitz, Josh Maday, Conor Madigan, Jen Michalski, Ben Mirov, Gena Mohwish, Catherine Moran, Amanda Raczkowski, Cooper Renner, Adam Robinson, Matthew Salesses, Jordan Sanderson, Robert Swartwood, JA Tyler, ds white, Rupert Wondolowski, Whitney Woolf, Joseph Young

CCAATTIINNTTHHEEBBRRRAAIINN

I overheard some Hollywood Video employees talking about this old horror movie last night. Of course I typed the title down in my phone to remind myself to look it up this morning. I'm assuming the cover is better than the film itself.

Publishing Genius

I failed to mention that Adam Robinson ripped the Secondary Sound blog banner for his own and then I failed to mention that Publishing Genius is publishing MLKNG SCKLS because it wasn't 100% in the bag yet.

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View it here.

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