60 Writers / 60 Places

Jazzed to be a part of this amazing project:

Link.

Weekend Report

Secret cable! Dan’s new tattoo, Richard Gorelick moved to the garden apartment, this is NOT a quesadilla, “three minutes, that’s all I need”, I’ll give it to you on the DL, these bartenders are ridiculous, package of amazing prints from Korean (Kevin Thurston), old photos of the house I grew up in for Futherest From, 60 Writers/60 Places filmed in the Brown Center at MICA – great hallway on the south side of the building – nailed it, cheese steak at Dio, unloading in the rain, Black Hollies almost spent the night (nice to see you dudes), hermit house cleaning, Californication (good trash), secret cable!

Iraq photo of the day

Iraq photo of the day

Daniel C. Britt is a freelance photographer who has covered post-Katrina New Orleans, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Iraq photo of the day

Daniel C. Britt is a freelance photographer who has covered post-Katrina New Orleans, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

SYSYGY - Fan Letter Y for Post Typography

Current design for the back (left) and front (right) of SYSYGY for Fan Letter (Y) for Post Typography's book release party.

because it is Friday

God help us - Tactical Bacon

Iraq photo of the day

Daniel C. Britt is a freelance photographer who has covered post-Katrina New Orleans, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

for Post Typography's Fan Letter

New flash fiction about "that port town where vowels aint allowed".

.

I think I'm going to push the mini chap book format as far as I can with this one (the one where you take a 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper and fold it into a tiny book). It'll be a book example of the DIY culture that Bruce and Nolen of Post Type foster while taking meticulous care in design. Two days in, the initial design is looking good.

.

sample:

.

Ay, Lynch’s brief tryst with the sylph, told now in bar myths and hype, rivals even my spryest forays in Syzygy – that port town where vowels aint allowed. Signs hang myopic over byways. Type erased with rifle and knife. Not a brunch menu or lotto ticket or tattoo with a vowel in sight. Boring, really.

Mohammed Jawad

"In December 2002, when he says he was only 12, he was arrested on suspicion of throwing a grenade into a Jeep carrying US special forces soldiers through Kabul, wounding two of them and an interpreter. He was taken first to an airbase north of Kabul, then to the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, where he remained until his release a few days ago after a ruling by a US judge that his confession had been obtained by force."

.

Link

After Generation X, Generation Zzz?

Nothing new:

.

"The coming month sees the release of two quite different but connected books. Douglas Coupland's Generation A is set in a world without bees and said to "explore new ways of story-telling in a digital world", a description that could be applied to Tao Lin's Shoplifting In American Apparel, whose fragmented approach seems to reflects a new strain of hyper-existentialism where thrills come only from bouts of pointless shoplifting. "

.

Link.

Iraq photo of the day

zoriah.com

Post Typography - Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces

Post Type invited me to take part in their book release party.

"Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces, the new type design and lettering book by Post Typography is coming out in October. To celebrate, Post Typography is having a book launch party on October 29 in Baltimore at the Maryland Institute College of Art. The culmination of this party will be Fan Letter: Twenty-six local, national, and international designers/artists/musicians give a two-minute ode to an alphabet letter or typographic character."

I chose the letter y. The assignment is open - create something that will be shown at the event for two minutes. Time to think...

Iraq photo of the day

zoriah.com

Weekend Report

Swift work on Futherest From, third place in poker (Jamie GP 2nd, Michael Kimball 1st), racing to White Marsh to pick up Danielle, we are clunky! SO CLUNKY! dripping taps at Duclaw, no tentacles in the calamari? Inglorious Basterds – kinda good, Sweatpants sweated my pants at the CCAS, tried to get into dancing, John Eaton rules the dance floor, dollar 16 oz Tecate, Mostly Dimes sleeping in the living room, big brunch, he looks like Cullen Stalin, half watched movies, SALTS! I really need to outline more of this beast before I continue, the cast iron grill top came in the mail, but half of it was missing, hiking Patapsco Park, through the train tunnel, stepping on dead things, what kimchi to choose?, dangerous cheese, early morning drop off at Penn Station, xo.

Iraq photo of the day

Iraq photo of the day

Iraq photo of the day

45 minutes

For my bros.

Sweatpants

.

Baltimore (8/22)

Arlington (8/23)
Manhattan (8/25)
Philadelphia (8/26)
Richmond (8/27)
Charlottesville (8/28)
DC (8/29)

.

myspace.com/wearsweatpants

Publishing Genius work, work, work

Getting there.

Sometimes I ask myself, What Would Don Do?

.

Attend a colleague's babyshower or enjoy a scotch on the rocks?
....Babyshower
X ..Talisker 18 with a water back
.
Fear the Rothko or step inside the Rothko?
....Fear
X ..Jump
.
Business meeting with potential client or weekend with a wealthy 20 year old girl in SoCal?
....Business meeting
X ..Indeed
.
Robert Frost or Frank O'hara?
....Robert Frost
X ..Mothers of America...
.
Sit down and shut up or walk out of the fucking room?
....Sit down and shut up
X ..Die fighting
.

Iraq photo of the day

Newlights Press - MLKNG SCKLS broadside

I'm getting more and more excited about these broadsides. The next to come from NewLights are collaborations with Brian Evenson, KC Trommer, Brenda Iijima, and John Yau.
Link here.

derrrrriscious

Via CP.

Iraq photo of the day

Iraq photo of the day

quick

Sepultura

Megadeth

Routing through old photos/books for the new manuscript, I found this old Lake Howell High School ID from the fall of 1993. It says class of '97. I look very worried.

Iraq photo of the day

HSAIBF

now it is your job to find a new job. When

did I stop trusting my own thumbs? Sooner

or later, the Buick will turn on us, revving

passenger-less and poised for gore. Some

faith is fortified by failure. Holy sounds

are invented by fingers. Text me when

you’re unemployed and masturbating

Weekend Report

CP interview with B McC about Falcons/SCKLS, restaurant week at Brewer’s Art, close calls with fatherhood (not me), more work on Furtherest From, more plaid, 5:10, Paula Bomer knows her metal and knows her billiards, Michael Pollock says some nice things about my design work, Adam Robinson orders a nap, early night, walking and walking and writing about CCD/Derry NH/the loneliness of the Virgin Mary, this steamed shrimp is kinda amazing, District 9 (pretty darn good), don’t text me like that!, Salts peed on my bed.

Iraq photo of the day

Iraq photo of the day

Iraq photo of the day

Situation - Danielle Frank

.
.

Iraq photo of the day

Zoriah.com

Iraq photo of the day

Publishing Genius - Adam Robinson interviewed in Higher Ed

"This is all impressive enough for someone who is working full time, with another year to go in his MFA program; but it seems fair to say that you would not expect Variety, the trade journal of the American entertainment industry, to take notice of Adam Robinson’s work. But in fact this has happened. Last month, the paper reported that Spike Jonze, the Academy Award-nominated director who is now wrapping up an adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, had acquired the rights to a novella by Shane Jones called Light Boxes, which Publishing Genius brought out in February.

Variety managed to get the name of the publisher wrong, nor did it bother to correct the error when this was pointed out. It might make sense for Robinson to change to the publishing house's telephone listing to “Genius Press” -- at least if it actually had one."

More here.

Iraq photo of the day

Iraq photo of the day

Weekend Report

The Signal SCKLS recording was so much better than I expected it to be (thank you Aaron Henkin), G.I Joe with Adam Robinson (can't we just both get amnesia and watch The Hurt Locker over again?), missed Celebration/Beach House, new lights over the patio, Bethany saves me from the werewolf, now I know the secret - 1/3 of a BLT from Royal Farms, the reading we well, gave a kid a book, lord - you are cute, something preposterous, late night oysters with Jamie, late night Wolverine with Jamie, hung over, I got a bonus.

Terrorists kidnap, torture boy to bully Iraqi policeman

[CNN] "They beat me with a shovel, they pulled my teeth out with pliers, they would go like this and pull it," said Khidir, now 8, demonstrating with his hands. "And they would make me work on the farm gathering carrots."

MP3 of the Signal - MLKNG SCKLS story

I can't believe how well this turned out. Thank you Aaron Henkin.
Link here.

*UPDATE
The link seems to be broken, but you can listen to this audio on YouTube or Vimeo. HERE

Iraq photo of the day

Iraq photo of the day

Iraq photo of the day

Haneen at her PC

Timely.

Young Muslims turn to technology to connect

[CNN] Esra'a al Shafei, a recent university graduate in Bahrain, is young, Muslim and frustrated.

Young Muslims, pictured here in Afghanistan, are increasingly using technology to engage the world.

The 23-year-old says the complexity of who she is as a Muslim is being distorted by extremists and the media coverage of them.
Channeling her frustration, she started Mideastyouth.com, a Web site she describes as a place for young people in the region to "show a different side of our religion" and discuss topics big and small, taboo and not.

.

Link.

Iraq photo of the day