Greetings from OK Corral
Actually, this goat was somewhere in Missouri. I’m in Oklahoma now.
Find a City
I went running in Central Park this morning for the last time. Here’s what it looks like when you condense 50 minutes down to 4:13.
Close shave as stolen goat found
The thieves had shaved his beard off to try to avoid detection but the owner has confirmed that it is definitely Billy and he is now back at home and comfortable.
The Goat Countdown (9 days to go)
Who needs superior fire power when you have photoshop?
Rick Moody reading at the zzzfish soiree
Book Objects
So this is how you make the NYT Book Review?
3rd Bed
As many as of you know, 3rd Bed recently folded, or has been in an indeterminate state of folding. Last weekend I went up to Providence to rescue what was left of the inventory from Brian Evenson’s cellar and these titles are now available and will be reissued through Calamari Press:
- back issues of 3rd Bed
- Motorman by David Ohle
- Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz
- the false sun recordings by James Wagner
I guess you can think of Calamari Press as a literary no-kill shelter. Please help me keep these books alive.
I blogged about the trip/exchange here.
I also released my own Marsupial book into the wild.
Marsupial
I posted the cover and opening excerpts from my forthcoming novel here.
Ohle reading part II
Neutrodyne-Settler Cross-Pollination
Ohle in the Can Factory
Not sure if Tony mentioned it, but for those in NYC, David Ohle will be reading tonight at Issue Project Room with Brian Evenson and a musical guest:
For those not in NYC, sorry suckas!
zzz ><()*>
Design 21 Contest
Just a reminder about this ye designers.
http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/13
Use your design skills for the better good!
Why I wasn’t blogging last week..
More pictures and videos from our Norcal trip.
Venus Bogardus, Holy Ohle and Flying Sheep
So I did this interview with Venus Bogardus on my 5cense site. At one point James Reich (the guitarist/singer, and also a fine writer who will be in the very forthcoming Sleepingfish) turned the tables and asked me if I had read Blade Runner (by Burroughs). I said no, but I had read “Do Androids Dream of Flying Sheep.” A rather strange Freudian slip that I think can be explained by my recent viewing of Cai Guo-Qiang’s Head On, that features a line of flying wolves, something that when viewing induces a dream-like state. You wouldn’t be able to tell, but the wolves in the sculpture are actually made of sheep. And combined with my love of goats that some of you are well aware of, comes a balanced hatred of sheep that perhaps causes repressed thoughts. My disdain of sheep is matched only by my disdain of unicorns. Anyway, there’s other “lattice of coincidence” moments in the interview and talk of Ohle and Motorman and Utopia, Texas. Speaking of which, mark your calendars! He’s coming to Brooklyn on May 23 to Issue Project Room, w/ Brian Evenson.
2007 Moment
It occurred to me today, that without a doubt, the Colbert White House roast was the single best moment of 2006, and Kanye West’s comment about George Bush was the singular and defining moment of 2005, the wardrobe malfunction of 2004…. For some reason I’m drawing a blank for 2007…. Anybody? Did 2007 have a moment?
Free Shit
Who says there’s no such thing? In anticipation for my upcoming move, I’m starting to clean out my closet (not that I have one) and getting rid of excesses. I’m posting stuff as I find it on my 5cense site that I’m giving away. Right now, it’s books by John Olson and Daniel Borzutzky and CDs by Sonic Youth and John Cage. It’s kind of like my life for sale, but instead I’m giving it away.
opportunity knocking
Clusterfockers,
As some of you know, I’m splitting this fine country without even waiting to see who our candidates are. As some of you also know, I work at this place Millennium Promise that does sustainable development work in Africa. With my leaving, my job as the web dude is becoming vacant. So if you live in the NYC area and think I have a cool job, now it could be yours. Here’s the job description:
http://www.millenniumpromise.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_careers
Also, I mentioned this before, but a reminder that there’s 54 days left in the Design 21/Millennium Promise competition:
http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/13
Now’s your chance to apply your design skills for the better good.
Dear Clusterflock…
Cow or Goat Milk?
Elephant Self-Realization
I think Deron once said the only requirement for content here was stuff that made your head explode. Watching this made my head explode.
Any Kindlers out there?
I have never had the remotest interest in ebooks before, but I will be leaving the states for some place far away (Kenya) that will likely lack decent bookstores, so it occurred to me that the Kindle is probably the perfect thing for me. I know, I know, call me a hypocrit, with all the preaching I’ve done about the merits of paper books, but it seems a lot easier and greener to download books than have them shipped to Nairobi. And I have to admit, I hate having books around when it comes time to moving.
I know Cooper started a thread a while ago about this, but I just wanted to follow up to see what the consensus was. Coop, did you ever get one? Anyone else? I guess the main concern I’d have is the availability of non-mainstream books as most of what I read usually comes from independent presses. And I’ve heard different things about the compatibility of PDFs with Kindle. Any other ebook readers people would recommend?
From the other end, does anyone have any experience getting their books into Kindle format for sale on Amazon? I’ve gone through their Search Inside program and that’s pretty easy, but I can’t find anything on their site for publishers wanting to sell books in Kindle format.
Any thoughts on the subject would be appreciated…
Colony Collapse Disorder
Solitary Bees need not concern themselves with such things, but still, here’s an interesting podcast I was listening to today. It’s got Miranda Mellis towards the end, and Thurston Moore, and some strange woman from another planet talking of our reproductive habits.
Whenever I think of bumble bees, though, I think of something my physics professor told me that made me give up on my PhD… evidently if you study the mechanics of a bumble bee, on paper, it can’t fly.
seeds, fertilizer & credit
Hanoi rocks
My better half went there last week and took these pics. No goats this time. Just chickens and dogs. I guess Hanoi doesn’t rock if you are a dog. It all tastes like chicken.
