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[My farewell reading of sorts, but also a chance for you to hear a friend of mine from England read in New York for the first time. With any luck she'll wear the cool tiara (see below). Please come!]
The BBR Reading Series
PRESENTS
Emily Critchley
&
Brian Kim Stefans
Wednesday, July 28, 8pm
($4 to benefit the poets)
Bar Reis
375 5th Avenue
(btwn 5th & 6th Streets) BROOKLYN 718-832-5716
(F train to 4th and 9th)
From the site:
"Due out August 9, The People's Guide to the Republican National Convention (RNC) has everything you need to survive your time in New York City. Event locations, transportation guidance, social services, emergency resources, and places to eat, stay, or go to the bathroom, plus an RNC calendar and helpful legal and health information. This 33"x22" full-color, two-sided, highly detailed map of lower Manhattan (below Central Park) comes folded down to fit easily into your pocket. Produced with the contributions of some of New York's finest artists, you'll want one to use and one to keep.
This guide will be distributed one-per-person for free in New York while supplies last, but pre-sales and bulk orders are what make that possible. Reserve your copies now.
See a sample of the front page."
1.
You can see the clarity in Philby's thinking in how few corrections he's made.
2.
You will face the Luftwaffe—alone.
3.
Striving to be insulted:
it's like the reality principle:
a kind of a receiving station
for the ephemera of daily trust.
4.
(They were pointing us toward their absolutes.)
5.
Those questions that have caused you so much anxiety
do not have to be answered.
6.
Any life is tainted.
Hence, no touching the fleshy, lubricated parts.
7.
Gottfried Benn observing the flower of a fatal knife wound.
8.
Walking away with the sunlight on your shirt.
We all found this desparately amusing at one point of our lives -- go ahead, admit it:
http://www.arras.net/truth_interview/dengdeng.swf
Another reason to visit my blog periodically -- from the creator of Basho's Frogger, Neil Hennessy, comes this masterpiece of punnage and plain coolness, Pac-Mondrian:
http://pbfbca.prizebudgetforboys.com/rhizome_commission/
Basho's Frogger still has one up on Pac-Mondrian as a "poem" in that it at least contains some text -- Neil's version of the Basho poem, which appears in the high score screen:
1 pnd 00000 pts
2 frg 00000 pts
3 plp 00000 pts
A fitting solution to the existential conundrum that not have the first line of logs presents.
But I think Pac-Mondrian wins, not just because it has a great soundtrack, "Broadway Boogie-Woogie" itself, with cymbals and other percussion provided by the Pac-man, but also because transfering the maze to the grand scale of the painting makes you feel like you're playing kickball on a baseball diamond, or roller-blading on a great expanse of concrete in Neimeyer's Brasilia. I.e. the transfer in scale becomes a transfer in logic, from that of the game designer to the historically conscious European master -- to run around freely and stupidly in it is like, well, playing hide and seek in the Hermitage. It makes my nose bleed just thinking about it.
It's already been touted as the best Photoshop thread on Fark ever -- this is just one (lighter-hearted) example:
Big bad David Perry stars in two new Flash Polaroids, co-starring his nose. Let them run for a few minutes, and stare at them closely!
www.arras.net/polaroids/david_v1.html
www.arras.net/polaroids/david_2.html
3 kim
3 ll
3 video
3 sun
2 mark's
2 ROCHE
2 blowjob
2 evans
2 fit
2 steve
2 Tight
2 st
2 DENIS
1 Hume
1 manage
1 roche
1 clemente
1 nicole
1 incest
1 sex
1 hairless
1 cat
1 alba
1 lang
[It's a twisted world folks.]
