This is The Thing - Fink
“The things that keep me alive keep me alone.”
Poetbabble
where ephemera escapes the interior
Nov 07
» Marry a Smart Girl, Live Longer
This ties into my theory that I should definitely be married by now. WTF world?
As my friend, Joe, once told me: If you weren’t such a good catch, you would be matched up by now.
Average people marry/find a partner early, quickly, and easily (mostly) because there are a lot of average people in the world. More matches.
Anyway, flattery or not, it was a perfect thing to say.
» Countdown to the House Vote
For my friends in the United States: three hours left before the House votes on health reform. Call your representative’s office now.
Nov 06
If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.
-Charlie Parker
Nov 05
» The WILLA List
“WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts), a new organization for and about women writers, co-founded by poets Erin Belieu and Cate Marvin. And after a lengthy discussion about the market, the tedium, the predictability, we evenly, with no kicking nor screaming, decided to generate a list of books by women writers, published in 2009, which were possibly ignored by PW. We list a range of books. We don’t agree on them all. We’re not ranking them. We’re not calling anything the best. We’re open to additions. It’s a growing list. It’s a reminder.”
- Susan Steinberg, On Disturbance
O baby porcupine! Wish you were mine….
Walks Into
Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I’m a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I’ve got Tourette’s. My mouth won’t quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I’m reading aloud, my Adam’s apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks empty of breath and tone.
- Excerpt from Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
(Just started reading this after hearing him speak about his new novel, Chronic City, on NPR. Somehow, I missed this one.)
