Josh is leading a movement to send poems with “aubergine” as the last word to the New Yorker. It all makes sense. Really. Here’s mine:
Seige Mentality
Picking up sticks containing polders and $10in the giant tuber forestI forgot sunscreen
The way out of the boxis the box factoryA corrugated told me thatI forget why exactly
However if I [...]
Thu, April 29 2004 » Poetry » No Comments
More proof it’s better to just trust the alternate universe I’m living in. So I was watching Matrix Revolutions the other night (god knows why; what an abomination of a movie!) with Kristin, and I noticed that one of the councilors of Zion looked strikingly like Cornel West, but I thought that this would be [...]
Fri, April 23 2004 » Movies/TV » No Comments
I put a bare-bones .pdf of “Home of the” here, so you don’t have to read it quasi-backwards. More soon. Let me know if there are problems with the file.
Wed, April 21 2004 » Fiction » No Comments
Home of the (part 6 of 6)
So many stories are lost everyday without really anyone trying, and no one will be able to dredge them back. Lost or sacrificed, the pieces cannot do anything but fathom their obsolescence. Which is no small task. Because, at some point, white or black will checkmate the other and [...]
Tue, April 20 2004 » Fiction » No Comments
Home of the (part 5 of 6; read part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4 below)
Once in town, the foreman walked to the failure mall and killed the fence, which wasn’t hard. The foreman was on a business trip. Every trip was a business trip. Several figurines shattered.
Where is it? it had [...]
Thu, April 15 2004 » Fiction » 2 Comments
Home of the (part 4 of 6; read part 1, part 2, and part 3 below)
Pepin’s floating. He’s floating about them. Their time is now, but his is not. He puts his finger into the marmalade sky and doesn’t feel any wind. It’s windy. He’s a lighter-than-air aircraft. Of sorts. They’re playing. They don’t [...]
Tue, April 6 2004 » Fiction » No Comments
Yes! NBA comics:
Set of 4 action-adventure comic books: HARDWOOD HEROES #1 Features: Shaquille O’Neal, Yao Ming, Tim Duncan, Paul Pierce, Baron Davis, & Ben Wallace with Richard Jefferson, Jermaine O’Neal, Jerry Stackhouse, & Michael Finley. Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, & Ernie Johnson of the TNT broadcast crew are live at the scene. A mysterious amulet [...]
Sat, April 3 2004 » Fiction » No Comments
