El Rincon, 4/29/09

I decided to be an American man tonight. I rode my bike to the rock show. (I’ll tell you one advantage the foolscap has over the blogpost;  foolscap never crashes. You don’t have to worry about saving your work; it automatically saves as you write.) The first band was playing as I arrived. They may [...]

I was in a Starbucks today when I was struck by an allergy-induced cough. Three people stared at me with something approaching panic. “Don’t worry, it’s just Marburg,” I said, which caused them to visibly relax. Not that they knew what Marburg was. They were just glad to hear that I didn’t have the dreaded [...]

great new website!!!

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didn’t sleep enough cool new thing to use if you have extra hundreds of dollars lying around it’s wednesday, april 29? what??? uh oh fierce rimpletude Japes and Jibes This was funny (too bad idiots had to use it as an excuse to hate on GLK’s deeply righteous & brilliant Harper’s story in the comments [...]

live on QVC

give me a copy of this for my birthday memo to myself check out the bruno schulz (the VV has schultz? is that wrong?) of mod. china I miss sonic youth. for my birthday will you buy me a year of private drum lessons from Steve Shelley? Seriously, I’m just kidding around , For immediate [...]

fudgin it up

lovely blog that’s “new to me” (via Brian Turner) I appeared on “The Passerby” on Pirate Cat radio at 8:00 a.m. a few weeks ago; I am perenially sleepy and triple-dafted (gets going around the 30:00 mark, I prepared something stupid slash did not prepare at all; I should never be allowed to say the [...]

boring blog post no. 554

I found an elf Grey Gersten curates the month of May at the Stone! I am going to teleport myself to a few of these shows; if you see a sweaty, flickering, flannel-clad Obie-Wan-style hologram drinking in the corner…. come say hi! “ya basta” Valentino Achak Deng is back from his hometown, Marial Bai, Sudan, [...]

Tom Bissell on This Is Water

Any mention of self-annihilation in Wallace’s work (and there are many: the patriarch of “Infinite Jest” is a suicide; Wallace’s story “Good Old Neon” is narrated by a suicide) now has a blast radius that obscures everything around it. These are craters that cannot be filled. The glory of the work and the tragedy of [...]

Choice drollery

I thought this tautology was funny: Admirers of Olds’s poems will find more of them in this, her ninth collection. (Joel Brouwer in the NYT. Brouwer has a pleasantly deranged poem in the forthcoming McSweeney’s 31.) It reminds me of a famous tautology that goes something like “This is the sort of thing you’ll like, [...]

cowland

I was totally blown away by Ariana Reines’s reading last night. I should have bought Coeur de Leon; I will eventually. Her essay “Sucking” talks about The Cow. I enjoyed the section on “Typographical Errors”: There are errors in THE COW.  Some spelling errors, punctuation problems, and wrong line breaks.  The actual bookmaking part of [...]