the twitter experiment!
my girlfriend rachel missed her cat, who’s vacationing in pittsburgh until february, so she started a twitter for her. i got it, you know, so i started one up too so i could friend the cat in yet another forum. what follows is the slightly tippled idea i had to use twitter in the manner [...]
Read Morewhere were you during the poetry wars? (pt. 2)
note: the following is necessarily vague in name and sometimes detail out of respect for all parties involved, although all of it’s really in the public realm if you feel like sleuthing. or, you know, kicking back a few sometime about two and a half years ago i got a job that let me search [...]
Read MoreIn Defense of YA (Recontextualized)
I recently had a conversation in which I was forced by circumstances into quickly articulating my love and respect for the Young Adult Novel (a genre that gets lots of love, to be sure, but usually not too much respect). Below is an admittedly bowdlerized transcript – edited for continuity – wherein Young Adult gets [...]
Read MoreBreaking: Zine War Winner Triumphantly Declared!
D.I.Y. OR DIE!: A Tight-Pantsy Drew Mystery #2, by L.A. Henkel is one of the best literary artifacts I’ve read in the last year. And I’ve read Infinite Jest, 2666, and L Hath No Fury: A Tight-Pantsy Drew Mystery #1 (otherwise known as the mystery of the ridic-big coat, briefly reviewed here).
Read Moreshoegaze shantih, featuring allen ginsberg (2007/8?)
it’s probably best to preface this song from the archives* with my steadfast-if-florid new years resolution from two years ago:
Read Morehot.girl.heart.attack / AMR daily digest
i’ve been hanging out with a tech kid all weekend who sold me on a few tricks, one of them being an RSS aggregator style semi-daily digest, sent directly to your e-mail every few days or so. this seemed like just the thing to me, you know, so you can sign up on the left [...]
Read Moretipplecraft interrobangs: a guide
last night i had drinks with a sort of high profile bookjacket celebrity who began the night thinking very little of my poetry (example: “what’s the relevance? if your ms fell on the desk of, say, new yorker editor harold ross [d. 1951] he would blacken the margins with irascible queries“). this is part of [...]
Read Moreknow your heroes 1.
the best and worst part of THE INTERNET is that you get to meet your heroes, at least on a superficial, voyeuristic sort of level. for example, i’m now friends with Jesse Michaels (OpIvy, Classics of Love) on facebook. i’ve grown into the man my 13 y.o. self always dreamed – but never dared to [...]
Read Moreboner dollar 3, east village edition!
since i now know I have a son (the boner dollar, conceived here, seen again here), I decided to do a quick google search for him. the first of these results is a blog post at Gamma Blog. in this image you can see that the boner dollar has been photoshopped, pre-stickering, to advertise some [...]
Read Moreboner dollar two!
another boner dollar found, this time in an outdoor ATM (perfect!) on bedford and roughly s. 2nd street. if you find a boner dollar in the city, please document it and let me know how my little buddies are doing. so weird!:
Read Moreundie-rock
so over christmas my sister tried to recommend a scene i might like by saying it was “you know, full of indie-rockers.” because it was christmas i was petulant and said something like, “oh, yea – i don’t really like indie rock any more … more into the underground scene [insert stupid distinctions].” because my [...]
Read Moreboner dollar
i think it’s probably still illegal to deface US currency, so i’ll just say that whoever got punk drunk one night and thought it would be funny and fitting to bookend the “ONE” on a dollar bill with a big ‘B’ and an ‘R’ to give as a tip to a super shitty bartender would [...]
Read More2008 besties
i can barely remember all the records i loved this (very long) year, but from here, on the very cusp of 2009, this is what i can see. one caveat: i got in a rock and roll rut for most of 2008 and listened mostly to old jazz and blues radio, but i’m out of [...]
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