Bobo snacks on soap
makes intestinal bubbles
breathe smells like mangoes

I wrote an art review for a show that Marshall University Professor Stan Sporny currently has up at the
Callen McJunkin Gallery.He passed away unexpectedly after I wrote the review (or maybe before, I'm not sure.) Either way, I did now know of his passing when I wrote it, nor did I ever formally meet the man. Everything I knew of him, I got out ( Read more... )

Officials at the AQA board said their request that schools destroy the anthology containing the Carol Ann Duffy poem "Education for Leisure" had been triggered by concerns in two schools about references to knives. A spokeswoman confirmed the decision had been made in the context of the current spate of knife-related murders. Duffy, widely ( Read more... )

"’Chloe liked Olivia . . .’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women ( Read more... )

I'm really enjoying bookninja.com. I think this guy's Canadian, as there are lots of posts about erosions in freedom of expression and arts funding in Canada, which put a damper on all my empty threats to move to canada. Stuff White People Like #75.Last week, george the bookninja wrote about Ron Rosenbaum, who fucking HATES crossword puzzles ( Read more... )

"Some three or so years ago, Tom rang me up; he was a bit drunk. He asked if I had my camera available and if I might be interested in a collaboration. He had lately written a series of poems after a very sad, very famous Schubert lieder, and they were intended to be his suicide note. If I taped him reading, he could then kill himself, and I ( Read more... )

I don't have my phone. And I feel the need to go get it right now, so that the person who has will be able to call me. That's silly, but that is what having a cell phone will do to you ( Read more... )

Here is a link to a surprisingly casual interview with the ever-elusive Haruki Murakami, conducted by a young Korean journalism student.I linked to the metafilter thread since the interview is contained in four parts therein. Also, do check the comments for some extra material from the original Korean interview that someone else has translated, ( Read more... )

I had more to say but he hung up before I could complete my thoughts. It bothered the hell out of me, but eventually I came to my senses and realized that sooner or later he's bound to relapse. I've read the statistics, and if I know Gill it's just a matter of time before he throws in the towel and starts drinking again. In the meantime I'll ( Read more... )

Journalist, feminist, and cultural critic Ellen Willis died Thursday at age 64, of lung cancer. Her political essays appeared in The Nation and elsewhere. She also wrote about music for Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and The Village Voice. She won wide acclaim for her 1981 collection of essays, Beginning to See the Light, about the state of ( Read more... )