So, hey– New here on the blogroll–you may have seen me loitering about the comments, strewing opinion shrapnel–I wanted to introduce myself by way of a ridiculous extended metaphor and a concomitant anxiety. First the analogy: an ensemble of clothes is like a musical ensemble, guitar/bass/drums to be exact. A shirt plays lead guitar…ruffled or [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Jeans Are the Bass in the Rock Band of an Outfit
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Domestic Fridays: Fall Casseroles
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged casserole recipes, fall casseroles, The Kitchn on October 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The Kitchn blog posted about these fancy casserole dishes today, and that made me Google “casseroles,” which turned up some interesting results. Apparently there are all kinds of casseroles: Noodle, Potato, Rice, Tuna, Beef, Breafast, Broccoli, Chicken, Corn, Green Bean, Pork, Seafood, Spinach, Squash, Sweet Potato, Vegetarian, Lamb, Meatball, and lots more. What I was [...]
Some Thoughts About Built to Spill I Had While Watching, and After Having Watched, Built to Spill Play in Williamsburg on October 5, 2010
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Built to Spill, October 5th 2010 on October 15, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Though I’ve been an avid listener of their music for years, listening to each of their albums repeatedly throughout that time, including Doug Martsch’s myriad projects outside the band, it’s surprising even to me that I’d never seen them before their show at the Music Hall, although I have listened to more than a few [...]
PANK: The Queer Issue
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abhishek Chaudhary, Adam Jest, Andrew Tibbetts, B.G. Will, Ben Engel, Christopher Phelps, Crystal Boson, Dennis Cooper, Dennis Mahagin, Doug Paul Case, Elaine Castillo, Holly Jensen, Julie Marie Wade, Kevin Simmonds, Lawrence Schimel, M. Kitchell, Maureen Seaton, Mike Buffalo, Paul Lomax, Rachel Swirsky, Rickey Laurentiis, Robert Alan Wendeborn, Robert McDonald, Robert Warwick, Sarah Einstein, Simon Sylvester, Sofia Rhei, Tim Jones-Yelvington on October 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Guest edited by our very own Tim Jones-Yelvington, PANK has a spanky new online issue out featuring all-queer writing. Wait, what’s “queer”? According to the editor’s note: “Queer picks at ‘normal’ like a scab, then eats it. Queer negates labels or else queer embraces many labels. Queer asks what the fuck is a label anyway.” READ [...]
Heck of a deal at Caketrain
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Caketrain, claire hero, lucas farrell on October 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Caketrain Issue 08, November 2010 Contributors: Joseph Aguilar, Nubia Bint Aqeel, E.C. Belli, Carrie Bennett, Amaranth Borsuk, Paul Braffort, Blake Butler, Jak Cardini, William Cardini, Jon Cone, Juliet Cook, Olivia Cronk, Kelly Dulaney, Laura Eve Engel, Géraldine Georges, Kristen Gleason, Sarah Goldstein, Adriana Grant, Hillery Hugg, Gabriela Jauregui, Sean Kilpatrick, Robert Kloss, Darby Larson, Tan [...]
The Latest from Octopus
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alexandria peary, allison titus, amy king, Ana Božičević, andy fitch, Brandon Downing, brenda iijima, christopher deweese, claire becker, claire donato, craig rebele, dan hoy, david carillo, dot devota, eileen r. tabios, george kalamaras, harold abramowitz, j. michael martinez, janice lee, jeff alessandrelli, jennifer denrow, jenny zhang, jesse lichtenstein, julie doxsee, katie peterson, kirsten kaschock, laura eve engel, linnea ogden, melinda wilson, michael rerick, molly bendall, Molly Gaudry, rebecca farivar, robe schlegel, s.e. smith, samuel amadon, Sasha Fletcher, Seth Landman, sommer browning, suzette bishop on October 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Congratulations to Jenny Zhang, Christopher DeWeese, and Rebecca Farivar for having their manuscripts selected for publication by Octopus Books 2011. Congratulations also to finalists: Claire Donato, Julie Doxsee, Laura Eve Engel, Sasha Fletcher, Dan Hoy, Brenda Iijima, George Kalamaras, Kirsten Kaschock, Seth Landman, Linnea Ogden, Alexandria Peary, Craig Rebele, Rob Schlegel, S. E. Smith, and [...]
Report from the middle of The Recognitions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Ernest Hemingway, The Recognitions, William Faulkner, William Gaddis on October 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
(First post on The Recognitions) In the middle of this wonderful book, many characters are running around trying to one up most everyone else–most significantly the character Recktall Brown (yes, Recktall Brown) has the forger Wyatt making false masterpieces of 500 year old Flemish Art. But Otto, the failed and flailing playwright, in love with [...]
What is this shit?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2010 | 11 Comments »
I bring in The New Yorker last week with this cover on it. I study it – think I’m missing something – then realize, “Nope. It’s a shitty iPhone drawing of bowl and a spoon without any fun extra-contextual jazz.” And I’ve been thinking that they’ve been giving Jorge Colombo a few too many covers, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Robinson, Adweek, David Gianatasio on October 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Recently, Adam Robinson introduced me to David Gianatasio, who analyzes ads like the one seen here and offers witty commentary. Now, this is how you advertise circumcisions. These perforated business cards for a circumcision doctor in Turkey were done by ad agency Healthy People by Grey. Via Ads of the World. See and read more at [...]
Most Ridiculous Blurbs – 1 of 349, 908, 456, 873
Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2010 | 6 Comments »
On David Baldacci, #1 Bestselling author: “When Baldacci is on fire, nobody can touch him” Booklist (starred review)
Writing for Publication/Display Formats
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amazon, combinatory, constraint-based writing, ebook, iPad, Kindle, publishing on October 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Amazon recently announced a new, shorter format for its ereader called Kindle Singles (cue mental image of floppy yellow-orange cheese square). The works to be published will range from 10,000 to 30,000 words. Part of Amazon’s marketing spiel includes a “call to serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers” to submit their [...]
Introductions at Readings
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
At the risk of further coming across as a cantankerous crank, here is one of my pet peeves. Readings are usually more hit than miss, and one of the things that make me feel this way about them are introductions of writers. Usually, they amount to little more than a portrait of a wall covered [...]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (23-53/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Blood and Guts in High School, Hume, Jean Genet, Kathy Acker, Madonna, William S. Burroughs on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the rest of the essay….was coming in smaller bits, but now an explosion. (1-2/53) (3-6/53) (7-10/53) (11-17/53) (18-22/53) 23. Despite any recourse to the nuanced heteroglossia of an Acker novel (available even to the casual, and perhaps dismissive, reader), part of the contrapuntal allure of her texts remains the difficulty in deciphering the [...]
The Women Men Don’t See?!?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Following on from the discussion about the disappearing role of women in British sf here (which has spawned this further discussion here), I want to consider a few American names as well. Kit Reed has been quietly writing first-rate genre-bending work for more than half a century, yet every new novel or collection seems like [...]
Happy Birthday, Big Other!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Aya Karpińska, Christopher Higgs, Danielle Adair, Davis Schneiderman, Edward Mullany, Greg Gerke, J. A. Tyler, Jac Jemc, John Dermot Woods, Kim Chinquee, Kristen Iskandrian, Leni Zumas, Lily Hoang, Luca Dipierro, Mel Bosworth, Michael Leong, Molly Gaudry, Paul Kincaid, Rachel Swirsky, Roxane Gay, Ryan W. Bradley, Sean Lovelace, Shya Scanlon, Stacy Muszynski, Tim Jones-Yelvington on October 12, 2010 | 13 Comments »
With sites (especially blogs, I’d imagine) coming and going, resembling fairweathered friends with their weighty promises and concomitant lack of follow-through, and with evanescence and disposability, perhaps, being two of the internet’s primary characteristics, an internet year must be to an in-real-life year as what a dog year is to a human year. But it’s [...]
This Wednesday: FC2 in NYC: Margo Berdeschevsky, Brian Conn, Lance Olsen, & Rob Stephenson
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Birkensnake, Brian Conn, Chiasmus, FC2, Lance Olsen, Margo Berdeschevsky, Queer Mojo, Rebel Satori Press, Red Hen Press, Rob Stephenson, Sheep Meadow Press, Unnameable Books, Western Humanities Review on October 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Just wanted to help spread the word for those not on Facebook: An Unnameable Reading: Fiction Collective Two in Brooklyn 7:30–9pm, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 Unnameable Books (600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY) (between Dean St. & St. Marks Ave.) Come hear four recently published FC2 authors read: Margo Berdeschevsky, Brian Conn, Lance Olsen, & Rob [...]
Introduction by Way of Obsession
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2010 | 27 Comments »
Happy Tuesday, everyone. John Madera has very kindly invited me to join the crew here, and since I lurk and occasionally comment here often, I was all too eager to take him up on the offer. So, hello! I could tell you some really boring things about myself, like where I’ve published, where I work, [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 17 / 39, O, VOZQUE PULP
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calamari Press, Carlos M. Luis, J. A. Tyler on October 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Click through for a review of Derek White’s chapbook O, VOZQUE PULP, the seventeenth in this full-press review series of Calamari books.
a dirge
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Banksy, The Simpsons on October 11, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Update: the original video was pulled from YouTube by Fox. Here’s a bootleg version: —— Banksy does The Simpsons…
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