March 5th, 2012 / 2:14 pm
 Snippets
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What did you do this weekend that was good? What did you buy this weekend that you think will be good?

56 Comments

  1. March 5th, 2012 / 2:19 pm M. Kitchell—

      top 3 of this year’s awp
      -“intimate bathroom reading at a goth club” brought to you by action yes / birds of lace / kate durbin @ neo-TJY & The Actionettes at Multi-Kulti
      -Pop Serial rager

      -I read Melissa Broder’s MEAT HEART on the plane and it kills of course, also excited to read the scott McClanan, Sam Pink, & Justin Sirios i gotz.  of course, i was broke so instead of buying anything i bought nothing, but seems like things worked out anyway.

      the funniest shit was when me and sarah rose etter and chris kelly and chris’s girlfriend stacy were sitting in a booth before the mutable sound/small doggies/artifice reading at beef & brandy and some woman was sitting in the booth behind us LITERALLY WRITING ABOUT WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WHILE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT in a very dismissive way.  shit was hilarious, 

  2. March 5th, 2012 / 3:08 pm Mason Johnson—

      Dogwalk Happen and Fritzlos dressed as women dressed as men dressed as women.

      That time I won the arm wrestling contest at the AWP kick off party. (Lindsay Hunter getting a room full of drunks to shut the hell up simply with a story.)

      That time I won karaoke at Karaoke Idol.

      DJ Berndt announcing that he’s the most eligible bachelor at Pop Serial.

  3. March 5th, 2012 / 3:47 pm Matt Rowan—

      Oh hey, look, a liar! Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, Mason Johnson, a liar! I believe someone else won the arm wrestling competition. Ahem! Someone … else … did … win! I hope I don’t need to spell it out for you, Mason. Just place your correction whenever you’re ready to a.) be a decent person b.) display your deserved humiliation for all to see. 

  4. March 5th, 2012 / 4:16 pm mimi—

      this doesn’t have to be about AWP does it? because i ate a warm goat cheese and grilled portobello mushroom sandwich this weekend and it was good  
      oh and i paw-wrestled with my dog

  5. March 5th, 2012 / 4:25 pm bartleby_taco—

      sat in a car for long, had fun

      played poker, lost all my money

      ate a cheeseburger with a fried egg on it, it was great

      bought ‘autoportrait’ (leve) and am very excited to read it

  6. March 5th, 2012 / 4:32 pm deadgod—

      it is not a lie

      it is a lyrical comment

      get with it mussel beach

  7. March 5th, 2012 / 4:34 pm Matt Rowan—

      Oh crap, Mason is deadgod. Friggin knew it. 

  8. March 5th, 2012 / 4:40 pm deadgod—

      that is the lyrical spirit!

  9. March 5th, 2012 / 4:53 pm douglas riggs—

      I sat in the car some as well.
      Hoping these novels by Donald Antrim will be good. 

  10. March 5th, 2012 / 4:57 pm Stephen Tully Dierks—

      party at my house was fun/funny i thought. glad you came, blake. shitload of ppl were there and ppl were kissing and shotgunning beers and ingesting things off people’s body parts and stacking in human pyramids in my bedroom

      got forcibly ejected from a screening of “wanderlust” starring paul rudd with ben brooks, crispin best, cassandra nguyen, maggie lee, michael inscoe, steve roggenbuck for public intoxication. we were being loud, ben and i rolled over some seats into the next aisle, and ben got up and bumped into the screen i think
      ben gave me a british copy of his novel “grow up,” excited to read that

  11. March 5th, 2012 / 5:05 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      when you word fucked me in a bathroom

  12. March 5th, 2012 / 5:05 pm Sal Pane—

      I finished The Oregon Trail is The Oregon Trail on the plane home and loved it. Other books from AWP I’m pumped to read:

      Fires of Our Choosing by Eugene Cross
      Cataclysm Baby by Matt Bell
      Fast Machine by Elizabeth Ellen
      Echolation by Myfanwy Collins
      You Can Make Him Like You by Ben Tanzer

  13. March 5th, 2012 / 5:10 pm Stephen Tully Dierks—

      steve just posted some footage from the party heh http://livemylief.com/post/18805151757/awp-2012-house-party-sexyest-party-footage-of-the

  14. March 5th, 2012 / 5:14 pm Ponsford McQuain—

      got “crunked” eating 16 – 20 nacho gummi ranch deviled eggs retrieved from Blood Alley dumpster; subsequently forcibly ejaculated from Happy Dog Mom fiasco, book fair, planetarium & Cook County jail.  

  15. March 5th, 2012 / 5:26 pm Mason Johnson—

      you’re gettin’ with it!

  16. March 5th, 2012 / 5:32 pm deadgod—

      How did you come to learn what she was writing “about”?  (Did you know while she was writing?)

      I just realized that I can’t tell if she was writing dismissively (first thought) or you were talking dismissively (also possible) (or both – losing the hilarity that might attach to a contrast).

  17. March 5th, 2012 / 5:48 pm deadgod—

      gettin widdit
      aint wi cher wrist a bit
      lyrical buddy
      back o the hand
      muddy and bloody

      feelin cheery and truculent
      all at once
      like a waxy qb sooccuulent
      who hut huts and punts

  18. March 5th, 2012 / 6:01 pm M. Kitchell—

      we learned because sarah was reading her screen

  19. March 5th, 2012 / 6:01 pm M. Kitchell—

      ugh i can’t wait until i can afford autoportrait

  20. March 5th, 2012 / 6:38 pm Jeff Nagy—

      matthew timmons The New Poetics from Les Figues
       

  21. March 5th, 2012 / 6:39 pm postitbreakup—

      winstar casino! snuck vodka in & gambled with friends

  22. March 5th, 2012 / 7:08 pm Anonymous—

      filed for unemployment / bought provisions to stave off starvation. that will be good. ~*the life of a real writer*~

  23. March 5th, 2012 / 7:34 pm shaun gannon—

      lol she was old too

  24. March 5th, 2012 / 8:13 pm Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      It was cool meeting a bunch of y’all! and it was cool hanging out with Mike in particular! Shaking hands was alright, and next time there’s something going on in Chicago I’ll head over.

      Took a cab home that night and we went through White Castle’s drive thru and I purchased the cabby a sausage egg and cheese sandwich.

  25. March 5th, 2012 / 8:14 pm Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      There was karaoke??

  26. March 5th, 2012 / 9:05 pm Adam Robinson—

      Did you go swimming though?

  27. March 5th, 2012 / 9:34 pm Shannon—

      I bought some books from ADP and last night my partner bought me the most delicious Tartufo. We also lounged about and got our nerd on in the form of watching a lot of Star Wars. 

  28. March 5th, 2012 / 10:01 pm Matt Margo—
  29. March 5th, 2012 / 10:54 pm Sugar Bear—

      What the F is AWP and how much water is in a pound of water (volume please cause I alrady know there is a pound)?

  30. March 5th, 2012 / 10:57 pm Rachel Yoder—

      Watched Chicago’s local Christian misinformation channel at length. Bought speculative fiction anthologies. Didn’t give a fuck.

  31. March 6th, 2012 / 12:00 am Banango—

      i sat at home & participated in an alt lit tinychat & played songs on turntable.fm with postitbreakup & frank tas

  32. March 6th, 2012 / 12:30 am postitbreakup—

      <3 <3 <3

  33. March 6th, 2012 / 1:04 am Dawn West—

      Great sex, great intoxicants, great company, great book (The Physics of Imaginary Objects by Tina May Hall).

  34. March 6th, 2012 / 1:05 am Dawn West—

      But no AWP. Shamelessly jealous of everyone who got to go.

  35. March 6th, 2012 / 1:08 am deadgod—

      so you were provoking the dismissive (?) commentary okay a haughty stenographic marionette

      is it possible she knew that her eavesdropping/commentary were being fed into your talk

  36. March 6th, 2012 / 1:26 am Michael J Seidlinger—

      Me too. I LOVED Suicide. Next book I buy will be Autoportrait.

  37. March 6th, 2012 / 2:48 am Tom Willard—

      Drank at a friend’s birthday, continued to plod through The Charterhouse of Parma, went to City Lights and bought Anonymous Celebrity, Zazie in the Metro and Dust: a Dalkey spree.

  38. March 6th, 2012 / 2:51 am Noah Cicero—

      Eating lunch with lily hoang.  

  39. March 6th, 2012 / 2:54 am Noah Cicero—

      1. eating lunch with lily hoang. 

      2. gene morgan and tim sanders

      3. online poker 

  40. March 6th, 2012 / 3:28 am mimi—

      a pound of water is ~ one pint

  41. March 6th, 2012 / 4:06 am Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      It’s true!

  42. March 6th, 2012 / 6:41 am Vomithelmet McGee—

      It took me 3 months to read Watership Down and I finished it.

  43. March 6th, 2012 / 10:21 am Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      I was so thrilled by how the curation came together for our event at Multikulti, I knew I was bringing together kindred folks but you really have no idea how much the pieces are going to be conversing with one another until you see that shit go down. I am so glad we got it all on tape.

  44. March 6th, 2012 / 10:22 am Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      I am jealous of Lindsay, I have to use my ass.

  45. March 6th, 2012 / 10:23 am Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      #fuckyeahlilyhoang

  46. March 6th, 2012 / 10:26 am lily hoang—

      you’re a doll, noah cicero.

  47. March 6th, 2012 / 10:27 am lily hoang—

      Aw, TJY, I barely saw you! Waa!

  48. March 6th, 2012 / 10:27 am lily hoang—

      My husband has a hashtag for me: #lilyfuckinghoang, but he’s the only one who’s ever used it.

  49. March 6th, 2012 / 10:37 am Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      haha, ill have to get in on the action.

      yes this year kind of sucked but we will make up for it someday.

  50. March 6th, 2012 / 10:39 am Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      I do gotta say tho that having you introduce me to Carmen and then having a conversation w/ her that basically consisted of me saying, I wrote a post on htmlgiant abt wanting to see your husbands dick, then talking about PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, was a highlight of this year’s conference. 

  51. March 6th, 2012 / 2:28 pm Anonymous—

      I met Bob Christgau, which was good. I bought an old Everyman copy of Alexander Pope’s Collected Poems, which is robin’s egg blue, and much more readable than my current copy of his work, along with a copy of Richard Elleman’s Yeats: The Man and the Masks, and a sturdy, sizable edition of Shakespeare’s narrative poems, in the old Cambridge set, which never made for good play-reading, but goes well with these few things. All of those either are, or seem likely to be, good.

  52. March 6th, 2012 / 3:18 pm Mason Johnson—

      Competitors were from the following pubs: PANK, Another Chicago Magazine, Artifice, One Story, Tin House, Featherproof Books, Red Lightbulbs, Quimby’s Books, THE2NDHAND, Untoward, & Curbside Splendor.

      YOU MISSED IT

  53. March 6th, 2012 / 3:27 pm Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      :(

  54. March 6th, 2012 / 4:17 pm Richard Thomas—

      Yeah, Ear Eater killed. Psyched to read Sampsell’s new WIP, the excerpt was excellent. New PANK looks great. New HOBART, too. Found some weird little journal, Chattahoochie Review, previously unknown to me, with excellent cover art, and work by Aimee Bender, Wells Tower and William Gay, very cool.

  55. March 8th, 2012 / 10:17 pm Tyler Gobble—

      Adam Robinson reading at the Ear Eater Reading

      Picking up a duffle bag of books including WHAT A TREMENDOUS TIME WE’RE
      HAVING by Nick Sturm, Artifice 4, Noo Journal issue 13, Forklift, Ohio issue 24
      (Oeno issue), Cataclysm Baby by Matt Bell, and Sermons and Lectures Both Blank
      and Relentless by Matt Hart

      Seeing CK Williams read

      Long Poem Panel featuring Matthew Zapruder

      THE LIT PARTY (especially that puppet show Jesse Ball did)

      Everything about the Convocation in Chicago

  56. March 12th, 2012 / 11:57 pm M. Kitchell—

      NO LIFE IS BLEAK IN THAT REGARD