September 18, 2010
dear clusterflock
What have you been thinking about posting?
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- Joel Bernstein: I know right?
- Rick Neece: Being nice is a dainty way to put it.
- Rick Neece: Hey Cristopher? Who cried “uncle” first, at the end of your ten-year stand-off? To quote my...
- Michael Smith: Ours is the kitchen.
- Amy Mabli: That’s what happens when you give the dogs the bed.
- Deron Bauman: Sweet Jesus.
- Michael Smith: Don’t we all.
- Pam: I have a story coming out soon in a ‘little mag’, Chicago Quarterly Review. An old friend recently...
- Pam: And I thought, somedays, that my work was meaningless…
- Pam: I remember Eggleston at the Art Institute in Chicago a couple years ago. He was elegantly dressed in a dark suit...
- Christopher Walken: Hey Clusterflockers, Realize y’all are hurting. I’ve been a really close friend of my...
- Marco: This works pretty well in mobile, more so in iOS
- Michael Smith: It was not the intent of management to imply all sissies are “namby pamby”. Management was...
- Rick Neece: I take umbrage with the term “namby pamby.” Some sissies are fierce.
- Carole Corlew: Shelia. Happy no big deal day. I would start your very own post but this phone is in semi rebellion.
Thinking about posting a video of me telling this or that — and only holding back because I haven’t been feeling too hot lately. Looking to feel better soon.
that sounds good, Sheila. I look forward to it.
the reason I ask is because when Amanda was here she rattled off three things she had been thinking about posting (the Frost Butts poems was one of them) that for whatever reason she hadn’t, and I realized every time I talk with someone from the site usually they have these great ideas they somehow haven’t gotten around to.
I have been sitting here for ten minutes trying to figure out what my answer to this question is. I have one. Let me focus my attention and come back.
I’ve had several ideas for posts in recent days. Who knows if I’ll harnass the time/focus to make any of them.
1) Ideas on the Internet as inflation agent
2) A memory, from about the age of 5, of seeing a naked woman walking down the street in Juarez
3) Seeing an octogenarian couple yesterday at the diner, each with a broken left foot
4)
I was thinking of 4) too.
I’m about to post about going to see Pinky Diablo today at a sale he had, where we bought some art and drank some beers.
Very soon I am going to post a review of Eugene Marten’s new novel Firework, published by Tyrant Books.
I want to do a post about things you don’t see very often anymore (first example: kids in elementary school art class making ashtrays for Christmas presents).
I was thinking of posting an aphorism many of my students might benefit from: “It’s not the job of the world to fit itself to your understanding of it.”
And finally, Cindy and I are seriously thinking of trying to make it to D.C. for Jon Stewart’s rally for sanity on the 30th of October–where, if we make it, we will be live reporters for Clusterflock.
that’s awesome.
get a press pass.
Daryl, Pinky wrote me the nicest message after I wrote him how I failed to send him the thing I promised on account of things have been hard with me these past few weeks. He said I could show him the thing next time I come to Texas.
Okay.
1. When I was in Dallas, Cindy asked me to report on what it’s like to visit and observe the homes and lives of flockers. Or rather, to compile my observations.
2. An honest question on the nature of home-cooked beans and flatulence.
3. More look-what-I-founds, since I’ve been admiring those of others and wondering why I haven’t been participating on that front now that I have regular access to a computer again.
“What have you been thinking about posting?” = “Run and tell that.”
Sheila, every time someone reminds me of that, it makes me really happy.
Like to make ya happy.
Oh, your question? Ummh, I love you. I love y’all.
Recently, my Field Notes went through the wash along with several editions of Scrap Paper Fiction. I’ve been meaning to write replacement SPF, but have not.
Kelsey, soak the beans longer. Rinse them better.
I have a story about an old colleague of mine called Psycho who had perfect pitch, but, I have to replicate a sound and it is causing issues.
There is another about voices in a machine.
I also have to somehow develop a better memory as I know I have other stories I want to post.
I can’t wait for all of these. Especially Phil’s Psycho story. I’ve always been partial to stories about people named Psycho.
For now, I’m stuck on 4)
Phil needs to replicate a sound.
I’ve been thinking about posting a “hiya ‘flockers!” kinda thingy. For about 6-8 months now. Still working it out in my head.
Kathy!
Deron!
What Deron said.
I keep seeing these things that are EMPHATICALLY FLOCKABLE then I get distracted. We’ve been stoopid-busy since May with moving. I guess I’m waiting for winter cold to set in so I can get reconnected.
We have many updates. We might even be able to host ‘flock-stock at our new place.
dang! that would be awesome. we have missed the Smiths.
Oh, man. I can’t think of anything better than clusterflockstock with the Smiths!
I’m gonna make it next year and I don’t care where it is or how difficult it is to get there!
Phil, I’m holding you to that!
I promise in open forum that I, the undermentioned – ladidadida
I’m pretty sure the law librarian would say that would hold up in court. In Texas, anyway.
“ladidadida” is Latin for “Oh you better fucking believe it’s true, mother fucker.”
I read that in a Latin book once.
I ain’t wronging a law librarian and I certainly ain’t messin’ with shit Kathy read in a Latin book!
Lately, I have wanted to put together a comprehensive list of a literature and clusterflock purchasable goodness of every flocker here on one organised page.
I also want to write a series of flash stories about my childhood, each story with an appropriately style static page. I am not sure what that would look like yet, but the idea has been battering about my head for the page few days.