January 2012
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“A second source of ‘The Artist’s’ appeal is that it allows audiences to participate in and feel good about the traditional communal nature of the moviegoing experience in a way that talking films rarely do.”
LA Times
All that is wonderful about going to the movies is summed up by the above, and The Artist only adds to that conversation.
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Poetry Revival this week in North Carolina!
Poetry Revival show this Wednesday, January 25th, at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee NC, with Buddy Wakefield and Derrick Brown. At the Bardo Performing Arts Center, 7:30, open to the public, $5.
Buy tickets here Facebook event page
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“Freedom is █████ ███████████ █████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██ ████ ██ ████████ ██ ███...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stop SOPA and PIPA.
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Stop SOPA
SOPA strike.
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The Third Monday of Every January
1. January was cold. And gray. We’d get in the car in the morning and drive to the other side of the river to gather in the parking lot of some school. Our group was usually twenty or thirty folks, all ages, all races. We’d find our spot in the parade roster. We’d be wearing shirts that mentioned the Baha’i Faith or race unity. We had a banner. We’d take turns holding it. We’d walk and wave....
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Shake the Dust shirt now available!
The “Shake the Dust” t-shirts from TWLOHA Heavy & Light show are now available from their online store, here.
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More Dorothea Lasky
Erica Fabri was posting poetry resources on her twitter today and I came across this poem the other week here and been wanting to share it. Guess it’s just a Dorothea Lasky kinda day. SUch a wondrous and heartbreaking poem.
JAKOB by Dorothea Lasky
I am sick of feeling I never eat or sleep I just sit here and let the words burn into me I know you love her And don’t love me No, I...
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Dorothea Lasky
Three years and still true
We need to fight Sarah Palin/John McCain. They are not what this world needs. We need to fight, as adults, for the world.
We need to forget about George Bush/John McCain Republicans that are betting that we have the TV on with the sound down.
I care about sound. So do you, I think.
We are a country where charisma matters a lot. George Bush and Sarah Palin look...
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The Royal Court is filled with pedantic idiots
“How do you justify a search engine providing for someone to go and steal something? A guy that drives the getaway car didn’t rob the bank necessarily, but they got you to the bank and they got you out of it, so they are accessories in my view.” –MPAA chairman and SOPA defender Chris Dodd, on the role of Google and online piracy
What a stupid metaphor. Google ain’t the...
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JAN 2 2012
Hi Portland. How windy you were today. Pasta and babyfishmouth last night. Waffle tacos today. Tea. Mario World. Mexican food. Dale and Tucker. MST3K. About to eat a jam cookie. 2012 is off to a good start so far.
December 2011
13 posts
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7 months
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Born today
Two things I remember my father teaching me: how to tie a tie and to fill my cheeks with air to make it easier to shave. I love this man. Happy Birthday Pops.
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The Solstice
Happy Shab-e Yalda everyone. Have watermelon. Pomegranate. Build a bonfire. There is loneliness. May the fire light your way out of it. May the darkness grow shorter as the light of the hours grow taller with each day that follows. Climb over the darkness, over the mountain. Bring the picnic baskets. Watermelons. Carry your prettiest plate. Follow the peacock. Listen to it sing. Let its song...
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all of the iceberg I love you
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SOPA 2
“The problem with the bill, and its Senate companion, the PROTECT IP Act, is not in its goals: no one disagrees artists should be paid for their work. It’s that it uses illegitimate means — censoring and blocking websites like they do in repressive regimes from China to Iran — to pursue these objectives. Furthermore, each subsequent version of the bill took even more...
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SOPA: Tumblr Staff Update →
staff:
This weekend, we hosted a meeting at Tumblr HQ with top technology companies, politicians and advocacy groups to coordinate our effort to reform or prevent the well-intentioned but deeply flawed Stop Online Piracy Act from becoming law. You guys have already made a huge impact in Washington, but…
Please investigate into the Stop Online Piracy Act and help keeping it from being...
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Revival Show
Derrick Brown, Buddy Wakefield, and myself will be doing a Poetry Revival show tomorrow, Thursday the 8th of December in Bloomington IN at the Whittenberger Auditorium located in Indiana University’s Memorial Union. 7pm. Free. If you’re nearby, come join us, should be a rip roaring good time. No Robb though.
Event info
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New Poems
I have five new poems up at Used Furniture Review:
Evelyn Visiting my grandmother, my mom’s mother, at times was a hesitant foreign thing.
Washington Heights I loved New York and I loved a girl there who loved me back. What a warm place we lived inside of, even that brief winter.
Drayton Street A sliver of a memory from Savannah Georgia. There were white Christmas lights on in her...
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November 2011
13 posts
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T-Bone
The comedian Patrice O’Neal just passed away. True I’m sad with just about anyone dies, especially those well before their time, but not being familiar with his work and really only his face, the little bit of sadness is a little bit odd to me.
Out of all the wonderful lines from Arrested Development, one of my favorite television series, O’Neal’s delivery of “Oh...
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6 months
This is how I love you
99 red flowers in a gloved hand Leaves the same color as honey Seeing orion dangle in the night Holding a bowl of soup with two hands This is how I love you today
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Heavy & Light Announced
Tickets available here
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On some days this is all of us
The lightest material on earth. 99.99 percent air and 100 times lighter than styrofoam.
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The Thanksgiving after Katrina we gathered in...
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Me & Buddy in Austin!
Buddy Wakefield and I are doing a show this Thursday, 11/17 at the ND in Austin Texas! Hosted by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz with additional performances from Kevin Burke, Ebony Stewart, aerial arts troupe Sky Candy, and more. 8pm at E 5th and Brushy.
Facebook event page here. Tickets available here.
Photos by Alexis Mojgani
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American Censorship Day
Today HR 3261 is on the floor and it could bring about the censorship of the internet. Stories of it here and here. Please visit and voice up against, here
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Good Morning
Pepper spray is a lazy way to go.
Legions of trained individuals should be able to disperse crowds without using last resort treatment as a first resort. “Pepper spray was deployed only against subjects who were either refusing a lawful order to disperse or engaging in assaultive behavior toward officers.”
If trained officers have to resort using such tactics in such a callous...
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Holy Shit
My day was just made.
Whole story by way of Roger Ebert
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PDX Poetry Slam
Featuring tonight at the Portland Poetry Slam. If you’re in town come on through. Backspace, downtown on NW 5th. Everything starts at 8pm, if you wanna read sign-up at 7:30. See yall there!
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Lyrically handsome
Tonight. This:
And this:
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Berkeley. 11/3.
Shattuck Down Low hosted by Esef Apparel
(sorry folks about the 21 and up, I wish it wasn’t so)
October 2011
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The Halloween Tree
There are several things, both of Halloween and of Bradbury, that I prefer more to The Halloween Tree. But there is something about this story that has always stirred something in me, a nostalgia for something that wasn’t my experience? A childhood memory of a different life? I don’t know. Whatever it is, the idea of and the images/feelings associated with The Halloween Tree stir...
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Happy Halloween!
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5 months
every corner of my heart loves you
in a field of fields you are the largest field
in a field of moons you are the most moons
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In the morning
your hat hangs on the inside of our closet door a big red circle
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Melting Vitruvian
Vitruvian Man from John Quigley for Greenpeace, to show the rapid melting of ice via climate change.
courtesy of theinspiration via fuckyouverymuch
Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. was playing Saturday night at the Whole Foods on Lamar, outside on the upstairs plaza but the seats were all taken. So we ate there on the terrace and then went to the Sepulvedas and watched Paul, which was like the mediocre-to-not that good comedy-but-not that funny version of E.T. We should have just gone to this hotel in Sweden.
I want those sheets and pillows.
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