What are you doing this weekend?

“Is your sense of ‘cat-ness’ or your experience of your own body somehow enlarged by your momentary departure?” — Eric Baus on granular vocabularies for the Naropa Summer Writing Program

I’m looking for MFA thesis flipped into a first book. Preferably a good first book.

Related: the winners of the STARK WEEK CRAZY LIVING contest are bemightee, Mark Walters, and Aimee Thorne! Winners, email me at mikeayoung at gmail dot com to claim your prize.

How do you do hands?

In case you missed it, this piece in the Boston Review today is causing quite a stir on the interwebs: Against Conceptualism: Defending the Poetry of Affect. Bringing it into this sphere. Curious to hear thoughts from readers?

How often do you floss?

“the only honest American movie star” — Paul Constant

Paul Constant, at the Stranger, tells us why Nicolas Kim Coppola is a prophet!

read it, and more, at NIC TILL YOU’RE SICK 

& if you’re in Seattle then go to Saturday’s one-day Cage Film festival called Nicolas Cage Match

(note:  i’ve been a member of the Cult of Cage for quite a while already)

1. anyone have any gossip?

2. the new DEATH HUMS is tiiiiiight

The two best things I read online today are this essay on mushrooms by Daniel Nester and this paper from Hypermedia Joyce Studies that examines the connections between Finnegan’s Wake and Electronic Voice Phenomena.