Thursday, December 31, 2009
Skateistan
Afghan children wait in line to enter the skateboarding park in Kabul December 29, 2009. "Skateistan", Afghanistan's first skateboarding park and school recently opened in Kabul with a skateboarding showdown among dozens of youngsters ranging from ministers' children to street kids, hoping that it will promote social cohesion and keep children out of the streets.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Chris Mason dream poem
What's the best way to make a dreary day kinda awesome? Getting a poem in the mail from Chris Mason inspired by a dream that was inspired by a comment I made which was something like, "I'm looking for a wife." I can go to sleep happy now. Wifeless.
late and long Holiday Weekend Report
Seeing me off, this guy is a billboard for A Touch of Gray, sat next to a young guy reading Ulysses (the last 50 pages) and talked about Brian Evenson/Kafka/HTML Giant/small presses/post-grad networking the whole time, it was awesome, my annual Krystal run (think White Castle of the South), parents loved District 9 and Inglourious Basterds, did I mention how radical my parents can be? a little ripped with my brother, this house is stagnant, antique shopping with the Sirois’, decorating an egg cup for mom (turned out kinda wiggly), Avatar until one in the morning, making fun of Avatar with Ryan (Ryan’s man crush with Neytiri… ew), Rolando’s (best Cuban food in Orlando), you have no idea what you are talking about, going through my old trunk and found comic drawings from high school – old collages from college – crazy old journals, blowing up the gingerbread house – next year we are rigging that puppy to blow, new jeans, got a shoulder holster from my uncle along with about 2 grams of his ashes, hat for Kacy, an old knife, big talk with the parents about finances and such, hung over or sick/sick? a little sad you haven’t texted back, thank you to Dave and Aparna for picking me up from the airport and making my arrival not too horribly lonely.
First Day Poetry/Fiction at Creative Alliance
I curated an hour of this sweet, sweet event.
Come out and see:
Rupert Wondolowski, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, Lauren Bender, Joseph Young, and Adam Trice (Red Sammy). They are all bad asses.
Labels:
events
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
TAYBBAITMT
or
light-brightness
for
KM
DVD menu repeats
like advertisements for memories
we haven’t recalled yet
*
how ‘bout that? Memories
weird
then, the lightness
of ribs & cushions &
our tight calculus
*
put your voice in there
some air between
the air between
holding
& wine
always plenty of wine
yes!
that’s a good thing
that wine
*
put your hand there, too
inside our new room
neckline like a June lake
underneath & breathless
how ‘bout that?
still thinking
about memories
oops
*
too much of the world
is built on heaviness
big, giant heaviness
bummer
we know better
*
only laugh at life
if you can make life
laugh back louder
*
scene selection &
resurface
return me to
light-brightness
or
light-brightness
for
KM
DVD menu repeats
like advertisements for memories
we haven’t recalled yet
*
how ‘bout that? Memories
weird
then, the lightness
of ribs & cushions &
our tight calculus
*
put your voice in there
some air between
the air between
holding
& wine
always plenty of wine
yes!
that’s a good thing
that wine
*
put your hand there, too
inside our new room
neckline like a June lake
underneath & breathless
how ‘bout that?
still thinking
about memories
oops
*
too much of the world
is built on heaviness
big, giant heaviness
bummer
we know better
*
only laugh at life
if you can make life
laugh back louder
*
scene selection &
resurface
return me to
light-brightness
Labels:
new poems for the new decade
Monday, December 21, 2009
Monday with Mcluhan
"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. "
Weekend Report
Amazingly decorated house and delicious food at Tai’s Christmas party, lost in Randallstown, madness with Gilbert, here comes the snow, crashed at Jamie’s house, breakfast with Mina, “what eats what” – the drawing game, making snowballs, walking to Turp’s, cheese on everything, brunch bourbon, Adam’s frosted beard, Dave NeSmith walled all the way from Federal Hill, Fantastic Mister Fox is kinda fantastic, me and Michael Ball drinking and drinking, this is putty!, Ball’s Rod Smith story: “projective enthusiasms mistaken for premature ejaculations”, butterflies, Basil Hayden’s, the roof and the sky, grayness, gratitude, Baltimore Famous? really? Margaret bought me this outstanding “pie iron” for the fire pit and we’re going to make the best hot sandwiches with it... can the fire pit get any better? (thinking Granny Smith and Cheddar and honey mustard), shoveling out the car, shoveling out a spot for the car, SO glad to be home, So glad to take a shower in what Jamie calls the best shower in Baltimore, Borderlands finished, growling at you, thinking about you.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Kane & Lynch II (new trailer)
Oh my god. This handcam and security camera style brings the K&L series somewhere even more real -- and probably more brutal. I cannot wait.
Making some Best of '09 lists
Here (Ben Spivey).
Here (Robinson).
and thanks to these guys for the links:
Peter Nidzgorski (this isn't happiness dot com)
Phu X. Pham (badass cuteface artboss)
Nik Korpon (Outside Writers)
Here (Robinson).
and thanks to these guys for the links:
Peter Nidzgorski (this isn't happiness dot com)
Phu X. Pham (badass cuteface artboss)
Nik Korpon (Outside Writers)
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Late and long Weekend Report
This marked up copy of SCKLS is brilliant, more brilliance, and more brilliance, Baba’s Mediterranean Kitchen, prepping for St. Marks, Joseph Young’s thoughtful and smart book release party, homeless Caleb Stein and Linda Franklin, Jamie and Adam’s acoustic set rocked, wax rabbit, thought you ditched me, little bottles of cabernet in the car, karaoke with Kacy and the ladies, Adam Robinson wails Love Hurts, Adam Robinson amazing the ladies, in the streets, people gawking, intoxicated collars, off to NYC, the CDs I burned don’t work (and there’s Op Ivy on there for Christ’s sake!), burger shots and Greg’s heartburn, rain and rain, Ryan’s beautiful place in Fort Green, Mike Long’s going away party at the Turkey’s Nest – the Wesson Lesson, in Ryan’s studio – the giant whale painting SOLD – the cabin painting radiates love, Dustin Williamson and Arlo under red chili lights, butter chicken, for the first time I actually feel like I have fans, Ginny Woods is a sweetheart, the Berrigan Tree, dang! friends from high school, friends from college, the reading was packed, read Uncooking and it worked, Eugene Lim’s stories are fabulously good, Dana gave me cakes, tore a twenty dollar bill in half, texting and texting, it’s nice to just sit, the monotonous glory of Borderlands, dinner with Adam Robinson (he got chicken fried steak with white sausage gravy and man, it was glorious), early to bed, still spinning.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Falcons on the Floor & MLKNG SCKLS featured in the Baltimore City Paper
Feature by Bret McCabe
Illustrations by Deanna Staffo
Illustrations by Deanna Staffo
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Monday with Mcluhan
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.
reading St. Marks Poetry Project tonight
I'm reading with Eugene Lim tonight at the Poetry Project - 8pm
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Eugene Lim is the author of the novel Fog & Car (Ellipsis Press, 2008). He is the fiction editor for Harp & Altar and the managing editor of Ellipsis Press. He works as a librarian in a high school and lives in Jackson Heights.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
in the works
- Reading at St. Marks on Monday, 8pm.
- Interview with the City Paper about Falcons & SCKLS
- Interview at Fictionaut with Nicolle Elizabeth
- Interview at Human Pyramids with Lexie Mountain
- Broadside with Black Square Editions (MLKNG SCKLS)
- Broadside with Newlights Press about Al-Mutanabbi St. *
Wiki:
Mutanabbi Street (Arabic: شارع المتنبي) is located in Baghdad, Iraq, near the old quarter of Baghdad; at Al Rasheed Street. It is the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, a street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. It was named after the 10th century classical Iraqi poet Al-Mutanabbi. This street is well established for bookselling and has often been referred to as the heart and soul of the Baghdad literacy and intellectual community.
A car bomb exploded and killed 26 people on Mutanabbi Street on March 5, 2007, leaving the area litered and unsafe for shoppers, and destroying many businesses.
On December 18, 2008, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki officially reopened the street after a long period of cleanup and repair.
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