weekly trip to the PO Box: Vollmann, hot knee socks & Hello Kitty
weekly visit to the po box yielded the following:
4 letters from IRAQ - here's hoping the people who wrote them are all still alive & in one piece
random postcards from: Qtar, India, Australia, and a really ugly one from Ohio [who is this from?!?]
a bill from poets & writers for an invoice I've already paid
an SASE return from MARGIE with surprise surprise yet another solicitation for contests - you'd think with all that $$ they much be leeching off losers like me that they could at least have an intern send out form rejection letters...
an SASE return from ARTS & LETTERS with a list of winners that's very hard to read since their intern didn't line the document up right... winners: Poetry: Joanna Goodman; Fiction: Jacob M. Appel; Drama: Phlilip William Brock & many many finalists. Judges were poetry - Christian Wiman, fiction - Julianna Baggott (um...okay, they're using the BROAD definition of fiction...) and drama - Naomi Wallace [whose work I actually like...].an SASE return from Gulf Coast with a nicely worded form letter (points for effort). Winners: Judge Justin Cronin (he's won a Penn Award so he must know what he's talking about, right?) selected Christian Winn's "The Dirtiest Hamburger in the World" for the Fiction Prize & Honorable Mentions to Michael Kardos's "One Last Good Time" & Nam Le's "Escape". Susan Howe selected Richard Wollman's "Relativity in America, 1936" for the Poetry Prize. Stefi Weisburd's "Drafting on Robert Hass Writing His Mother's Nipples" (what?!) and Justin Petropoulos's "amid the tulip-bulbed confluence" were given Honorable Mentions. just shoot me now please..."tulip-bulbed confluence" (?!)...next up we have an envelope with no return address which contains...a purple slip from CROWD that says..."Thank you for sending to CROWD. Unfortunately, we will not be using your work..." etc. Something called the Columbia University Journalism Review wants me to subscribe with a "professional rate" - perhaps I should tell them that I'm not a professional, apparently, I'm not even an amateur...Next up we have a copy of the new ALLIGATOR JUNIPER issue entitled Scars w/a solicitation for their next 2 contests. I'm assuming this is their version of a rejection letter. Hopefully the writing will be better than the cover photo which is very reminiscent of a bad goth album cover. On to more interesting stuff...the latest BOOKFORUM (did I subscribe to this?) hypes on the cover among other things, "Madison Smartt Bell Reviews Cormac McCarthy", "Pynchon Now" & a whole bunch of other stuff including Gerald Howard, Rick Moody, Don Delillo, Lorrie Moore, Jeffrey Eugenides, George Saunders, James Gibbons on Vollmann & the intriguing, "Jonathan Ames, Tranny Chaser?" I'll be reading the Vollmann piece first, of course, since I'm still recovering from my decades long Vollmann obsession...In more healthy areas of interest, the new BACKPACKER "Northeast Hiking Edition" which promises 25 hidden trails & other exciting & sexy (to me) ways to spend my time...and in more depressing news, the latest National Wildlife Magazine with "Mercury's Mounting Toll on Birds" and "Arctic Refuge on the Line"...it's enough to make me go chain myself to a tree...and last but not least the new delias catalogue...I particularly like the "Tyler Skull Jeans" on page 3 (but no way am I paying $78 for a pair of jeans just like the ones I had in highschool)...the "Barrett Blazer" on pg. 22 (again overpriced at $78)..the Owl Belt on 24 for $19.50 could help feed my ongoing obsession with owls...on page 28 there's a fetching pair of earrings for only $12.50...a Hello Kitty watch for $45 (probably cheaper at the Sanrio store)...a hot hoodie sweatshirt in RED with a SKULL but at $56 I think I'll give it a missThere's the usual selection of cool print t-shirts but I always wait on these until they go on sale - I just won't pay $25 for a t-shirt...not even one that says "I Heart Skinny Boys with Glasses" (ah if only that was true...sadly, I heart BIG MEN with issues)...On Page 47, we have some fetching sequin flipflops for $6.50...don't blind yourself with the hideous "fall looks" on 48-70 (eek! these were horrible the first 2 times around & really really unnecessary in the 21st century. hippies really need to be done away with now please - or at least a taught how to coordinate their clothing.) the PUMA bag on page 72 is still calling to me but I'm waiting until every NYU student in the city gets over it & it goes from $55 to $15 and then I'll bite. on the same page there are also some hot knee socks @ 9.50/pair with either hearts or stars & perfect for those "special" nights in playing teacher/student. oh wait...sorry...TMI. I'm still waiting for the "tattoo" sheets, blanket and throw rug to go on sale - they're cool in a highly tacky way & even match at least one of my tattoos...but I'm not paying $70-$90 for that thread count. I really really really want the "spiral beaded lamp" on page 79 but it's SO not cat friendly that I'm going to have to resist. dammit. and can we just talk about my highschool/college dream of a black shag rug on page 81...too bad we have to grow up. no more black rugs. or black curtains...*sigh*
and tonight's quotes from CSI:
"Great, drunks with guns." (wasn't that a band?).
"people are pigs"
"don't insult the pigs Nick, they're actually very clean"
4 letters from IRAQ - here's hoping the people who wrote them are all still alive & in one piece
random postcards from: Qtar, India, Australia, and a really ugly one from Ohio [who is this from?!?]
a bill from poets & writers for an invoice I've already paid
an SASE return from MARGIE with surprise surprise yet another solicitation for contests - you'd think with all that $$ they much be leeching off losers like me that they could at least have an intern send out form rejection letters...
an SASE return from ARTS & LETTERS with a list of winners that's very hard to read since their intern didn't line the document up right... winners: Poetry: Joanna Goodman; Fiction: Jacob M. Appel; Drama: Phlilip William Brock & many many finalists. Judges were poetry - Christian Wiman, fiction - Julianna Baggott (um...okay, they're using the BROAD definition of fiction...) and drama - Naomi Wallace [whose work I actually like...].an SASE return from Gulf Coast with a nicely worded form letter (points for effort). Winners: Judge Justin Cronin (he's won a Penn Award so he must know what he's talking about, right?) selected Christian Winn's "The Dirtiest Hamburger in the World" for the Fiction Prize & Honorable Mentions to Michael Kardos's "One Last Good Time" & Nam Le's "Escape". Susan Howe selected Richard Wollman's "Relativity in America, 1936" for the Poetry Prize. Stefi Weisburd's "Drafting on Robert Hass Writing His Mother's Nipples" (what?!) and Justin Petropoulos's "amid the tulip-bulbed confluence" were given Honorable Mentions. just shoot me now please..."tulip-bulbed confluence" (?!)...next up we have an envelope with no return address which contains...a purple slip from CROWD that says..."Thank you for sending to CROWD. Unfortunately, we will not be using your work..." etc. Something called the Columbia University Journalism Review wants me to subscribe with a "professional rate" - perhaps I should tell them that I'm not a professional, apparently, I'm not even an amateur...Next up we have a copy of the new ALLIGATOR JUNIPER issue entitled Scars w/a solicitation for their next 2 contests. I'm assuming this is their version of a rejection letter. Hopefully the writing will be better than the cover photo which is very reminiscent of a bad goth album cover. On to more interesting stuff...the latest BOOKFORUM (did I subscribe to this?) hypes on the cover among other things, "Madison Smartt Bell Reviews Cormac McCarthy", "Pynchon Now" & a whole bunch of other stuff including Gerald Howard, Rick Moody, Don Delillo, Lorrie Moore, Jeffrey Eugenides, George Saunders, James Gibbons on Vollmann & the intriguing, "Jonathan Ames, Tranny Chaser?" I'll be reading the Vollmann piece first, of course, since I'm still recovering from my decades long Vollmann obsession...In more healthy areas of interest, the new BACKPACKER "Northeast Hiking Edition" which promises 25 hidden trails & other exciting & sexy (to me) ways to spend my time...and in more depressing news, the latest National Wildlife Magazine with "Mercury's Mounting Toll on Birds" and "Arctic Refuge on the Line"...it's enough to make me go chain myself to a tree...and last but not least the new delias catalogue...I particularly like the "Tyler Skull Jeans" on page 3 (but no way am I paying $78 for a pair of jeans just like the ones I had in highschool)...the "Barrett Blazer" on pg. 22 (again overpriced at $78)..the Owl Belt on 24 for $19.50 could help feed my ongoing obsession with owls...on page 28 there's a fetching pair of earrings for only $12.50...a Hello Kitty watch for $45 (probably cheaper at the Sanrio store)...a hot hoodie sweatshirt in RED with a SKULL but at $56 I think I'll give it a missThere's the usual selection of cool print t-shirts but I always wait on these until they go on sale - I just won't pay $25 for a t-shirt...not even one that says "I Heart Skinny Boys with Glasses" (ah if only that was true...sadly, I heart BIG MEN with issues)...On Page 47, we have some fetching sequin flipflops for $6.50...don't blind yourself with the hideous "fall looks" on 48-70 (eek! these were horrible the first 2 times around & really really unnecessary in the 21st century. hippies really need to be done away with now please - or at least a taught how to coordinate their clothing.) the PUMA bag on page 72 is still calling to me but I'm waiting until every NYU student in the city gets over it & it goes from $55 to $15 and then I'll bite. on the same page there are also some hot knee socks @ 9.50/pair with either hearts or stars & perfect for those "special" nights in playing teacher/student. oh wait...sorry...TMI. I'm still waiting for the "tattoo" sheets, blanket and throw rug to go on sale - they're cool in a highly tacky way & even match at least one of my tattoos...but I'm not paying $70-$90 for that thread count. I really really really want the "spiral beaded lamp" on page 79 but it's SO not cat friendly that I'm going to have to resist. dammit. and can we just talk about my highschool/college dream of a black shag rug on page 81...too bad we have to grow up. no more black rugs. or black curtains...*sigh*
and tonight's quotes from CSI:
"Great, drunks with guns." (wasn't that a band?).
"people are pigs"
"don't insult the pigs Nick, they're actually very clean"
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