1. Please welcome the newest Giant contributor, the radical Kristen Iskandrian, who rules.
2. Don’t forget tonight at 9 PM Eastern (again, 6 PM for you west coast freaks) Michael Kimball will read live here on HTMLGIANT, with a guest opening reading by Andy Devine. See you there!

Two excellent new texts to check out around the web this week: (1) Matt Kirkpatrick’s “Light Without” at Web Conjunctions (from a manuscript of texts that is, as a whole, just a braineater), and (2) Kristen Iskandrian’s excellent story, “The Geology,” this week at 52 Stories.