– Bam! Last Tuesday after work (feels like a decade ago) I went out with Matt for pizza, then went home and stayed up until 5 AM finishing EPs for my Earshot reading. I’ve had all sorts of unhealthy non-sleeping patterns this month, though I think this week will be more “normal.”
… Read the restI will be reading from the beginning of Hungry Rats at this year’s first installment of Earshot.
245 Grand Street (b/w Driggs & Roebling)
September 14 // 8 PM
$5 + one free drink
Nearby Train Stops: L (Bedford Ave), G (Metropolitan/Grand), J/M/Z (Marcy Ave)
Also reading: Aaron Fagan, Allison Shaloum, Filip Marinovic , Sandra Hurtes.… Read the rest
Hungry Rats Reading: Earshot Read More »
A servant now appeared with Annette, and conducted Emily to her chamber, which was in a remote part of the castle, and at the very end of the corridor, from whence the suite of apartments opened, through which they had been wandering.
… Read the restBody: Draught. (Mysteries of Udolpho) Read More »
Entertainment Weekly’s review of Pearl Jam’s No Code:
Trapped somewhere between purgatory and bliss, the album leaves you with the vaguely unsettling feeling that Pearl Jam without pain are like a pretzel without salt, or Seattle without rain.
All it wants are line breaks.
… Read the restConcept: Accidental Poetry? Read More »
Up until now I’ve offered a one-sided criticism of psychoanalysis, all the way back to its roots in Freud and Jung. I always took the angle that Freud was a gifted observer who formed some highly faulty models of psychology based on speculation as to how the human brain worked.
… Read the restConcept: Psychoanalysis and American Psychiatry. Read More »
– Relaxing night in. We watched The 39 Steps, which seemed like a dress rehearsal for North by Northwest, and is probably as close as Hitchcock ever came to making a romantic comedy.
– ALMANAC SAYS –
What could be eating the leaves on my nasturtiums at night?
I will be reading from Hungry Rats at this Friday’s debut of Earshot‘s 2007-2008 series.
I will also be selling (for $3) a limited number of The Hungry Rats EP, featuring readings of Part 1, Chapters 1 and 2, and music by Elisabeth Blair, Mr.
… Read the restConcept: Earshot Reading this Friday. Read More »
– Yesterday, I had some time to kill between work and meeting friends at eight, so I went to Greeley Square and got some reading done. It was nice – strange weather, but in a good way. Cloudy and windy with flecks of rain every now and then, but there were floodlights shining down from the roof of the Manhattan Mall, and it had a weird, ghostly effect.
… Read the restThe Flint Journal continues to follow important stories in the lives 450,000 souls. This week, they’re following a veritable Ring Cycle involving the theft of some ceramic dwarves from Sue Austin’s front yard. Gee, I can hardly wait to find out what happens tomorrow.
… Read the restEvent: Stop the Presses! Pocket Lint Found in Pocket! Read More »
from bill-in-portland-maine:
… Read the restMost of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, yet that country has paid no price for producing and harboring terrorists. Neither has Pakistan, the country in which Osama bin Laden is now hiding.
The PDB said: Bin Laden determined to Strike in U.S.
Event: Six Years Later. Read More »