Monday, March 14, 2011

finished up shane jones' light boxes. hmm. yes I liked it but it has some issues. just picked up 'monsters of templeton' which, after a promising start, is becoming very much bogged down in dullsville. *yawn* to another memoir-masquerading-as-fiction. I mean, seriously, who cares? get back to the monster already. nice cover art though. and winter, which seemed to be over, is back again with a biting wind off the water and through the tunnels between towers that they call streets here. not to mention this losing an hour to the Gods of Time nonsense. hate it. spent most of yesterday walking across town (horrified at how bland Chelsea's become) and then struggling through boxes in my much-neglected storage room. discovered that many boxes labeled "clothes" or "vinyl" actually contain...books. enough to open a library. I'll be shedding a lot of those soon. although I will NOT be getting rid of my box full of Breyer model horses nor will I be giving up my pristine copies of "King of the Wind," "Seastar...," or "Misty of Chincoteague" (sp?). I have to draw the line somewhere. Found some great clothes & assuming I don't find any more moth-driven damage, will be wearing many outfits from 198? since, apparently, they're in fashion again. had tea at podunk in the EV again. love that place though I do wish the chairs were more comfortable. all that wood isn't all that conducive to extended conversations and tea drinking. skipped the blasters/robert gordon show on saturday night. too many shows in brooklyn & the trains suck on weekends.

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Friday, March 11, 2011

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terrance hayes.

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every little thing in my life slides away as insignificant as I think about my dad in his hospital bed oh so far away. and I watch the live feed of the tsunami along the pacific rim. nothing like watching the ocean sweep along my favorite place on earth. thankfully, it looks like Oregon/Washington Coasts have been spared. can't even watch the footage of Japan. new yorkers are mostly so insular that they're busy talking about sports & the weather & shoes. oh well...*went to the NBCC event on Wednesday & saw some GREAT readers: Terrance Hayes, Ann Carson, Patti Smith. Franzen gave a lame reading - big surprise. In fact, the fiction category was the least interesting. I miss the young adult/graphic novel categories - all that reading could use some visuals. unless they all learn to be as expressive as Hayes. didn't go to the awards ceremony last night & instead went home, did some work, read more of light boxes (shane johnson) and waited for Con Ed (who never showed). walking to work today, I saw the remains of several umbrellas - so glad I missed the brunt of it though the windows/outside walls shook with the force of that wind. someday I want to live in a little stone house that does not feel the wind. on higher ground, of course. safe from waves. and Republicans.

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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

mardi gras eve 2011. and I'm not in new orleans but in nyc. nyc which was particularly dirty and cold and full of rude people today. and after plowing through a stack of bad manuscripts (eek) and a couple of semi-good ones I'm watching bad crime shows. where they generally solve the crimes & catch the bad guys. unlike real life. oh & no parties or beads today (though my boss put beads on all our computers & left work early - of course we weren't allowed to leave early but then we're not the boss)...haven't posted in a while cause I've been busy with "real life" including catching up with some friends I haven't seen in decades. Went to "punk rock movie night" at Otto's & saw "Smithereens" (the movie. not the band. although there IS a band in the movie by that name). It mostly holds up as far as pop culture films go & Richard Hell looks amazing. as does nyc - all rubble and paint everywhere and fires in garbage cans. While I could get all nostalgic (like others in the audience did), one thing this movie reminded me of is that my choices weren't as bad as they could've been & it is nice to have my own safe place to live - albeit a tiny, crumbling one... Winter's still hanging on though most of the snow remnants are gone & I saw some tiny white crocuses today on my afternoon walk. which gives me a tiny sliver of hope that spring will come. eventually. reading "light boxes" right now. gave up on solar - just loathed the main character way too much. tomorrow going to the Nat'l Book Critics Circle Awards Reading (they need a shorter title). should be good though those things always last way too long. I'm sure there's more but I need to watch the end of this show to see who the bad guy is.

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