Leaving Imaginary Money on a Non-Existent Table

-a salient point from Merlin Mann.

Ray, I didn’t think it would get to this.

Melissa Broder asks poets for their thoughts on Twitter.

I read my selected tweets at a reading a few months ago, because Twitter is the only place I write anymore.

Guru is in a coma.

“A film ought to be like a pebble in your shoe.” Lars von Trier

“Kaiser TV”, 2008 by Fernando Bryce. Bronze (Kaiser Wilhelm II – bust), books, monitoring camera, screen, vitrine.

via vvork

Twelve new poems from Tao Lin at The Lifted Brow, the new issue of which has more good shit that you can handle, including from David Foster Wallace’s forthcoming final novel. I like these new Tao poems a lot, ‘seems fun or something,’ think most of them were in an issue of Zachary German’s The Name of This Band is the Talking Heads.

1. An interview with Carolyn Cassady (wife of Neal Cassady–inspiration for Dean Moriarity in On The Road).

2. Dear Everybody–one of my favorite books; beautiful–is now available in paperback. Absolutely buy.

3. Homosexual economics, American Gigolo & Lacanian processes. Yeah.

Don’t skip.

This is what it looks like where I live right now. Readings were canceled tonight. Schools are closed tomorrow. I uploaded a few more pics here, if anyone wants to see them.

Yoko Ono answers questions posed by her twitter followers. Some are funny, like

p_oem: If I were a wave would you surf me? Ono: If I saw a big wavelike you, I will flee

Others are dumb, like

sugarspeak: Who is your favorite female, contemporary poet? Ono: I don’t read poetry. I imagine.