la nouvelle orlean: faite-les vous meme
today (29 august 2006) is the one year anniversary of hurricane katrina. rather than try to say something coherent about the many ways katrina fucked up everyone’s life (and continues to, both materially and psychically), here is a link to some traditional new orleans blues and dixieland: www.wwoz.org I recommend Andrei Codrescu or Kermit Ruffins [...]
Read Moretwo bad cats
MURRAY AND VELCRO in TWO BAD CATS (a play in one act) caveat: my cats didnt actually do this (probably), but they did wake me up at four a.m. acting like theyd gotten into cut rate cocaine. this play was written when i couldnt get back to sleep. you saw it here first! dramatis personae: [...]
Read Morethe travelogues conclusion
i’ve just finished my “i just got back to nola” work in updating thomocracy. it’s been a real strain for me to get these last few posts up regarding the last days of the ny leg of my journey, and i apologize for their lack of true creative genius. at least i included the pics [...]
Read Moremaintenance
hey, I don’t know if you guys knew, but the old theme was broken. It’s going to look sweet again, I promise. And we will have widgets. I am working as fast as I can. And eating hard candies. Love, Amy
Read MoreREMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST
IN WHICH I DISCUSS: the triumph of S.P. Riordans LIGHT AND LOVE; life as a luddite; a vegetarian doppelganger; the hanky code (semaphore for swingers); malt liquor; the Book Question; gradations of poems about oneself; greek statuary and blue puns; the significances of my birthday on the Aztec calendar; human character and the dictionary game; [...]
Read Moreinternational relations
i attended a gathering of international students in singapore under the auspices of promoting cultural exchange and intellectual discourse on current issues. these gatherings usually culminate in a “mutual respect” and understanding. though i did meet a few who offered dire predictions on the future of the world. yet i think the true meaning of [...]
Read Morenotes from a widening gyre
i am in the cadman library doing the usual. afterwards i will probably take out a cowboy movie if i can find one as good as Lonesome Dove. also i am listening to TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS which is always like a slap in the face (esp. “pictures of success”), but i know it doesn’t [...]
Read Morepart four of Uncle
I woke up in the nurse’s office with a bandage on the left side of my head. It felt like my head was in a vice, running from my right temple across to the spot beneath the bandage. The nurse told me that I had fainted and hit my head on a bookcase when I [...]
Read Morea blackline in your chardonnay
i’m filing this under “sweet irony,” right next to “bills to pay”: and some photos, to mitigate the above ridiculousness (thumbnailed):
Read Morei love Brookyln – a tribute
Since this is my first post, its only fitting i pay tribute to nick and bat for letting me stay in their beautiful home. I write now from Jakarta, Indonesia whence i met nick 7 odd years ago Presently I’m missing the rooftop parties, dance parties, spilt blood, pints of guinness, bohemian rhapsody, haircuts, bees, [...]
Read Morecommon sense is the most overrated virtue
SONG: hot girl heart attack i’ve fallen in love with the girl in this song, a figment of my imagination and a metaphor. EYE CANDY: YOU KNOW I’M A RADICAL (or SELF PORTRAIT WITH PUNK ROCK) DETAIL:
Read Moreel nino se llama tio (tres)
I sat in the back of Mrs. Deacon’s math class as was my normal routine in most classes. I tried to minimize the amount I was called on to participate and for the most part, the teacher’s understood my reasons and allowed me to ghost their classes as long as my grades could evidence my [...]
Read Moreunspeakable visions (of the individual…)
nyc update: i still don’t have a job, direct loans says i am a year derelict on payments as i apparently only finished one semester of graduate school, i’m thinking about — this is awful — doing legal secretarial work in the interim so as to pay rent and eat things other than coffee and [...]
Read Moresee the life i’ve had can make a good man turn bad
the smith’s “please please please let me get what i want” has became a mantra, a bittersweet sutra if i could remember the lines. so i wrote this – i hesitate to call it a poem, it’s not very artful – in my notebook. it’s more an ontological re-affirmation of self and extended resolution/wish list, [...]
Read Morethomocracy launched
i’ve just started up www.thomocracy.com and have provided links for you all. this is where i’ll rant and run on the most so that i won’t clutter things up here at amr. it’s pretty cloned now, so you may not even realize you’ve left, but i’m figuring things out and hope to have jpegs of [...]
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