March 12th, 2009 / 3:23 pm
Haut or not

Haut or Not: Alexis Orgera

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Lewis Lapham, of Harper’s fame, started a new quarterly focusing in depth on ‘timeless’ humanist qualms such as war, love, nature, etc., and I’m happy to see this on her shelf. The thinness of that Moby Dick spine looks like some abridged version, but I’m hoping knot (get it? fuck). Joyce and Beckett sit well next to each other like Exile and Absence out for a date. I can only imagine the library late fees out on Paradise Lost — the Fall of man at 20 cents a day. Alexis is onto something with all this irrevocable mor(t)al stuff. (And who needs The Iowa Review when I got a review of Iowa right here: corn blows.) If you think I’m grasping for material here, I’ll just repeat what I said to Marco Polo, ‘get lost.’

Rating: Haut.

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37 Comments

  1. ryan

      when there’s only an issue or two of a lit mag on someone’s shelf i always start wondering what is in that issue that made the person pick it up and subsequently keep it.

  2. ryan

      when there’s only an issue or two of a lit mag on someone’s shelf i always start wondering what is in that issue that made the person pick it up and subsequently keep it.

  3. Jimmy Chen

      pg. 11 of Barely Legal really did it for me

  4. Jimmy Chen

      pg. 11 of Barely Legal really did it for me

  5. pr

      Is this young woman 15? I mean to say- this shelf makes me feel old as shit.

  6. Jimmy Chen

      by definition she’s at least 18. don’t worry pr, your ass is not a day past 25

  7. Jimmy Chen

      by definition she’s at least 18. don’t worry pr, your ass is not a day past 25

  8. pr

      Are those used libary books she bought? WIth those white tags? Or ACTUAL library books? I’m bewildered.

  9. Blake Butler

      i have yet to be impressed enough to say ‘haut’ to any o deez peoples.
      except reb, i think hers was good

  10. Blake Butler

      i have yet to be impressed enough to say ‘haut’ to any o deez peoples.
      except reb, i think hers was good

  11. pr

      I’m just going to guess people’s ages from their shelves, like that dude at the fair who guesses your weight by looking at you but different. This woman is not yet legal drinking age- say 20.

  12. pr

      Reb- 36
      David Hodges- 34

  13. pr

      i think you posted this shelf cause you’re a chicken hawk motherfucker

  14. ryan

      ooh, now i really hope they used the picture i sent…

  15. ryan

      ooh, now i really hope they used the picture i sent…

  16. peter b

      i will only send in a photo of my philip K. dick shelf. fuck it.

  17. peter b

      i will only send in a photo of my philip K. dick shelf. fuck it.

  18. pr

      peter is 28.

  19. pr

      I just googled Ms. Orgera and she wins. She is not 20. She looks it though, in a photo found from googling her. Also, I think it is safe to say Ms. Orgera has many other shelves in her house.
      Check her out here:
      http://www.alexisorgera.com/

  20. ryan

      i did this, too! haha… i waited until i got home from work because after the Barely Legal mention i wasn’t sure if i’d find something nsfw.

  21. ryan

      i did this, too! haha… i waited until i got home from work because after the Barely Legal mention i wasn’t sure if i’d find something nsfw.

  22. Reb

      exactly 36! wow, you are good.

  23. Reb

      exactly 36! wow, you are good.

  24. jimmy

      what is a chicken hawk motherfucker?

      are you saying i’m a ‘chicken,’ hawk motherfucker

      or that i’m a ‘chicken hawk,’ motherfucker

      is this some fetish i don’t know about?

  25. jimmy

      what is a chicken hawk motherfucker?

      are you saying i’m a ‘chicken,’ hawk motherfucker

      or that i’m a ‘chicken hawk,’ motherfucker

      is this some fetish i don’t know about?

  26. KevinS

      Boring.

  27. KevinS

      Boring.

  28. pr

      One good, one bad. I was wrong with Alegra. But man, I am so happy I guessed you right! Woohoo! That means you don’t win the teddy bear, though, Reb.

      I want to hear from Mr. Hodges.

  29. pr

      Alexis, sorry, not Alegra-I am multi-tasking right now. Forgive me.

  30. daniel bailey

      moby dick rulez.

      but seriously, i actually do love moby dick.

  31. daniel bailey

      moby dick rulez.

      but seriously, i actually do love moby dick.

  32. pr

      I also want to clarify to the wonderful Jimmy who invented this great series that in regards to the barely legal love and my riffing on how youthful the shelf appeared that chicken hawk- a term I use to describe myself- is used by me (and by others it has a more specific meaning, but who cares what they think) to describe an older person who preys on younger person, sexually. That’s me! And you Mr. Jimmy! The motherfucker was just “emhpasis” Like, yeah, motherfuckas, we be hawking on them chickens!

  33. alexisorgera

      The thing here is, you decided to review the teenage half of my bedside table. The other half is full of adult, grown up literature, as opposed to that juvenile classics nonsense. You know, the kind chicken hawks read when they’re not out hawking chickens.

      Plus, there was good poetry on that other half.

      I’m 31, by the way.

  34. alexisorgera

      The thing here is, you decided to review the teenage half of my bedside table. The other half is full of adult, grown up literature, as opposed to that juvenile classics nonsense. You know, the kind chicken hawks read when they’re not out hawking chickens.

      Plus, there was good poetry on that other half.

      I’m 31, by the way.

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  36. Jonny Ross

      No Hempel love?

  37. Jonny Ross

      No Hempel love?