Occasional poem

What kind of poem do you like the least? The kind with yeast. Rising in a half morning baked epiphany of meaningly thoughts. What kind of poem do you like the most? The kind on toast. Held fast with a fat veneer of cream cheese. What kind of poem does your family like? The poem [...]

tremendous shout-out

It was obvious, though, from the writings of the cognoscenti, that a true sampling of poutine would require a trip to Montreal. That is how I came to be eating so much of it with Emily Birnbaum and her boyfriend, James Braithwaite, and their friend Richard Parks, and a revolving selection of special-guest eaters. from [...]

drunkenschrift

Language porridge, alcohol cauldron, dehydration history, 55-year-old woman at literary magazine party, lips pursed, thoughtful and sublime drunk blogger abroad, brimful of self-loathing, each tooth a piece of video art broadcasting a private American history back to the motherteeth British man wearing a t-shirt mocking class struggle, a Scottish novelist too politicized to appeal to [...]

(Dash Shaw ist rad!) UPDATE!!:

D’O(r)kra

I can’t sleep. It’s 4:20 a.m. I have to perform public speaking tomorrow at 10 a.m. I am fucked. It’s OK. I could use a hoagie. I’d like a dairy product. I am whingeing. Peace out, guys (via Mark Newgarden)

Language Bom

Dear future grandchildren, I’m writing this blog for you. Someday all blogs will be engraved on the bottoms of wide flat stones and you’ll slide your finger across a surfaceless touchpad and the stone will turn and you’ll read these words and think about the life of the man who begot you. Hi! I put [...]

anti-blogging, drunk, nobody knows what time

Hello America I am drunk, I didn’t mean to get drunk, I wanted to hydrate and acclimate, but then I met so many wonderful people [eats an entire tube of lipstick, belches, kisses a real pig, literally, at a farm] that I ended up drinking nineteen Belgian and Dutch beers (Heineken is somehow a masterpiece [...]

Lingua Citadel

I work for a small nonprofit theater company; a theater festival in the Hague (Den Haag), Netherlands, inexplicably invited members of our company to a festival they are putting on but all the senior members of my small theater company got lockjaw syndrome and painful-butt disease so by the luck of the draw I got [...]

wine arson

Middle initials omitted.

Officers from Beijing’s Industry and Commerce Administration stopped the sale of “ObaMao” merchandise showing Obama dressed as Mao Zedong. The Republican National Committee said that its health-insurance plan would no longer pay for abortions. The Cheesecake Factory agreed to pay $345,000 to six male employees who were sexually harassed by other male employees, the number [...]