Some Pseudoscience: On Silence
I let myself live in silence sometimes
Fruit Journalism
My suspicions that free live sexcam chats (in this case LiveJasmin) were pre-filmed footage of “performers” acting sexy while ostensibly reacting to instant messages w/o actually reading or engaging in clientele discourse were confirmed when I, as guest41, asked PusyKhat what color was the inside of a mango; she had two chances to answer “orange,” or [any reasonable color, e.g., yellow, tan, etc]. guest142 and guest54, no doubt less inquisitive than I, offered PusyKhat the usual “hi” and “sexxy,” as if such a lovely lady had not been met with those sentiments thousands of times before. I struggled with the thong but finally decided it was safe for work, as our technologies have yet to convey the olfactory world.
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September 8th, 2010 / 5:29 pm
September 8th, 2010 / 5:29 pm
SUPERMACHINE #2 Release Party
Ben Fama emailed the Pioneer Valley Division of HTMLGIANT to let us know that SUPERMACHINE is having a release party on Friday in New York for its second issue. It looks pretty epic. Here are the specs:
Friday, Sept. 10, 7:30pm
The Schoolhouse330 Ellery St. #3 (between Broadway and Beaver)
Brooklyn, NY
Readings! Music! Your Autumn Crush!
with:
…
Macgregor Card
Chris Cheney
Lonely Christopher
Corina Copp
Jon Cotner
Joanna Penn Cooper
Brandon Downing
Anne Cecelia Holmes
Lauren Ireland
Simone Kearney
Dorothea Lasky
Paul Legault
Emily Pettit
Christie Ann Reynolds
Matvei Yankelevich
Matthew YeagerWith Music by FORMA
Are You Fucking Kidding Me ?!
Josh Cook interviews Steven Moore
What does it mean for a work of fiction to be “experimental?”
It means to depart from the norm and try something new. In every generation of writers, 90% just follow the conventions, while 10% are experimenting with new approaches, new techniques–some of which become conventions and then are imitated by 90% of the next generation. Those who want to be professional writers look to see what’s selling, and try to imitate those; those who want to be experimental writers avoid what’s selling and look to the other arts or disciplines for ideas on how to expand the novel’s repertoire.
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September 8th, 2010 / 2:35 pm
September 8th, 2010 / 2:35 pm
Eraserhead on One Page
Kim Duchateau portrays the entirety of Eraserhead in a one page comic strip for a weekly feature of such one page cartoons in Belgian magazine Humo. [via Not Coming]
Official Word Made Flesh Book Trailer Now Officially Official (and Live!)
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September 8th, 2010 / 11:37 am
September 8th, 2010 / 11:37 am
Colony Wife Box Fairy Boy
1. A second preview of the final issue of Lamination Colony has been posted in the form of Joyelle McSweeney’s “Welcome a Revolution”
2. @ Writing Prompts, Joe Hall is interviewed about his Pigafetta is My Wife, including writing advice:
Slaughter a pig, plank okra, join the commune, build a structure with indigenous materials, persecute your enemies, embrace your friends.
Most award winning poetry is just awful.
Buy my book.
For every procedure used to write a poem, develop and implement a counter procedure. You can sort it out at the end.
Pray to your god.
Stay in shape.
Don’t buy my book.
Write.
3. At Your Brain’s Black Box, Ben Spivey interviews Sasha Fletcher
4. Red Issue of the Fairy Tale Review has been released.
5. @ Largehearted Boy, Andrew Ervin’s Book Notes for his newly released and beautiful Extraordinary Renditions.
Andre Agassi on Writing
“In tennis you’re on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement, which inevitably leads to self-talk, and for me the self-talk starts here in the afternoon shower. This is when I begin to say things to myself, crazy things, over and over, until I believe them.”
Amelia Gray’s Museum of the Weird
This is one for the decade, and came out today. You are going to need at least 1-3 copies. I’d say more but you probably already know. Or here are blurbs.
“Amelia Gray’s Museum of the Weird is a cabinet of curiosities—a talking armadillo, a serial killer named God, a woman who amputates her toes for dinner, a man married to a paring knife—this collection of stories is so good and funny and wondrous that I couldn’t look away from her dark and curious imagination.”—Michael Kimball
“To say Amelia Gray belongs in the hilariously inventive hallows of Ann Quin and Rikki Ducornet would be to miss her light. This book is gleaming evidence of the author as a trophy case unto herself, wrought of magic equally surprising, wicked, giddy, and loaded with a megaton of Boom.”—Blake Butler
[Here is a sample text from the book: There Will Be Sense.]
Get get now. Do the get. Get the real: straight from FC2.
Or also available here.
Sartre publishes “The Wall” on his facebook wall
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September 7th, 2010 / 6:23 pm
September 7th, 2010 / 6:23 pm