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After reading Joseph Riippi’s A CLOTH HOUSE I am overwhelmed with many sentiments concerning the psychic and physical sensations of home. Home is not always a positive place to remember. There are often dramatic effects as we attempt to recall it; recoils, tremors, anxiety attacks. There are the ways your mother’s face looked a little [...]

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For those who didn’t catch the winners of Gary Amdahl’s Visigoth in the comments of last week’s interview here they are: Ravi Hosho Nathan W. Bryan Basamanowicz Please email me at artisticallydeclined[at]gmail.com with your addresses and your copies of Visigoth will be in the mail!

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 “She says, so slowly that it is nearly autumn by the time she comes to the end of her sentence, that she is wild about seeing” Black and white photographs, inverted text, pages that are black and pages that are white, loose pictures that fall out of the book when it is opened, an actual [...]

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You may have seen my “vote for debbie” post yesterday, & now I have another artist I want to pimp. The other queen I’m voting for to appear on the fifth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race is Chicago’s Sissy Spastik (one of the best names ever)! …Influenced by great transgressive and counter-cultural artists like Grace [...]

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Hello Big Other readers! I’ve got an artist to share with y’all, and I am hoping you will help me support her work. Debbie Fox is a Chicago drag queen who is competing in an online “fan favorite” contest that will secure her a slot on the fifth season of the reality television series RUPAUL’S [...]

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For a few days here on Big Other, now while we’re still in soul-shot of Passover and Easter, I’ve been posting about a short-short by Franz Kafka that he titled “On Parables.”  The original along with my opening thoughts on it can be found here, and the followup with my developing sermon or something, that’s [...]

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A couple of days ago, here on Big Other, I posted my first round of thoughts on one of Kafka’s briefest yet most resonant pieces, “On Parables.” On the one hand a pokerfaced jeu, on the other a stern admonition against that very idea, the story’s had hold of me for some time, it’s even shaken a [...]

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ON PARABLES Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily life, which is the only life we have. When the sage says: “Go over,” he does not mean that we should cross to some actual place, which we could do anyhow if the labor were [...]

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