Tom Andes’ brilliant review of Newman flop WUSA is up at The Rumpus now and completely worth the read. It’s a movie review, it’s a retrospective, it’s a remembrance of New Orleans’ past, and it’s a warning of what lays ahead for the Crescent City and, by extension, this whole damned country. Pour yourself a [...]
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The Big Flat Tenderloin
Mar 16, 2011
6:36 pm
Filed under:disneyland-with-liquor, kokoro studios, tenderloin
Local blog The Tender has a nice story about me and my residency in this Disneyland-with-liquor neighborhood we lovingly call the TL. But the real story-in-the-story is its focus on the Flat Earth Collective’s reading series at Kokoro Studio, which we’ve been running for over a year now (and hopefully will host a new installment [...]
More ...WWW: Writers on writing on the Web
As a software developer / code monkey / geek, I’m a big fan of Stack Overflow, the programmer Q&A site run by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. It’s a slick and easy-to-use Web site that attracts a (mostly) positive group of thoughtful developers / monkeys / geeks. They recently opened a new version of the [...]
More ...Carolin’ lingua
Dec 21, 2010
6:14 pm
Filed under:adeste fideles, bohemianism, erotic review, holiday spirit, my toothbrush, underground victorianism
One of the few unqualified joys in my writing life is receiving Erotic Review‘s monthly communique. (I’m subscribed purely for literary reasons, of course.) Jamie Maclean & Co. are incapable of writing a dry or perfunctory letter. ER is half London Underground Victorianism, half San Francisco bohemianism – half Do What Thou Wilt, half I Did [...]
More ...Jim Nelson at Lizzy Acker’s Monster Party reading
The book launch for Lizzy Acker’s novella Monster Party is coming up! As part of the celebration I’ll be reading a short piece along with Anisse Gross, Adam Moskowitz, Marisa Crawford, and, of course, the fabulous Lizzy Acker. Hope to see you there! Saturday, 11 November 2010 7PM Amnesia 853 Valencia St. (between 19th & 20th) [...]
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