Yesterday was the first of the dog days, by the Old Farmers Almanac’s definition: The 40 days between July 3rd and August 11th coinciding with the heliacal rising of Sirius, the dog star. Sirius does not rise at this time anymore, due to the precession of the equinoxes.
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Soundtrack:
1. Doris Henson, When You Go
2. Funkadelic, Cosmic Slop
3. Smashing Pumpkins, Starz
4. Smashing Pumpkins, Bring the Light
5. M.C. Breed, No Frontin’ Allowed
6. Eminem, Evil Deeds
7.
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FIRST, I will be reading at Sunday Salon, a Brooklyn-based reading series that has sprouted offspring here in Chicago. My co-readers will be Elizabeth Wetmore and Mary Anne Mohanraj… that’s right, I’m being trusted to stand among the tall-trees this time.
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If anybody is still readingthis, I realize that I haven’t posted substantially or regularly for some three odd months now. It is difficult to attribute this to being “busy” since I’ve been busy for most of the time that I’ve kept this blog.
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*~*~* * * * –The GOTHIC FUNK NATION <-- * * * *~*~*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ presents ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* * * * An Event *** An Exhibition *** A Party * * * *
* Gothic Funk Party #10 *
THE FETE OF THE UNSEELIE COURT
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd from 9 PM
“Moomers” @ 5509 S.
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. indeterminacy is not the end
. we are people of the 21st century: what is next?
. we want your IMAGES, SOUNDS, and WORDS.
. SUBMIT
END OF POST.
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I’ve started rereading Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, one of my favorite novels of all time, in preparation for the inception of the Gothic Funk Nation this February. The timing of all of these events, however, is uncanny, since in some ways the “plot arc” of December 2007 for me had a lot in common with the early English gothic novel in general, and The Mysteries of Udolpho specifically.
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Wow. So this has been the longest posting drought since I started this blog, and it’s probably going to last another couple weeks. Quite simply, I spent a couple weeks leaving New York, a week inhabiting a Gothic novel in Chicago, a week moving within Chicago, a week working without internet access.
… Read the restI will be reading at this month’s installment of the Guerrilla Lit series. Barring sudden and inexplicable fame, this is the last time I’ll be reading in New York, inasmuch as I’m moving to Chicago two days later. The reading is:
7:30 PM Wednesday, 11/28
170 Ave.