Monthly Archives: August 2006

Within a Rapidly Degrading Tan Citation: QUOTE BAG

Posted on August 30, 2006 by ubu507

Within a Rapidly Degrading Tan Citation                                  or Organ Sensation as a Tool of Natural Research: Quote Bag The Tattling Harlot: A Dialogue Between Bess O’Bedlam and her Brother Tom We are the apes who dreamed and woke still dreaming. – … Continue reading →

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The Alexi Papers

Posted on August 29, 2006 by ubu507

The Alexi Papers   The sun stretched lazily on the strand, like some imbecilic half-child of the Emperor. The Thief lay in his room, ruing the day he first saw the strange stranger, as the Professor exited, wiping the spittle … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Grace

Posted on August 26, 2006 by ubu507

Fragments of Grace     The hyperbolic queen of Main Street The driver of the great engine Of the great wheel This rare and vertiginous glory Overwhelmed by affection And slow ambulation   She has a weird second-generation Vassar walk … Continue reading →

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Mars as a Planet

Posted on August 25, 2006 by ubu507

Mars As a Planet   Mars as a planet never thinks of love And therefore never has sperm on its carpet And a woman already gone   Due to widespread nighttime exposure Mars is often on television And never sleeps … Continue reading →

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The Insect at the Home of a Mutual friend

Posted on August 24, 2006 by ubu507

The Insect at the Home of a Mutual Friend : QUOTEBAG   Right now we’d like to dedicate this to everybody here with hearts, any kind of hearts, and ears – it goes something like this here… – Jimi Hendrix … Continue reading →

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APT

Posted on August 23, 2006 by ubu507

Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened … Continue reading →

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A Stolen Season by Steve Hamilton

Posted on August 22, 2006 by ubu507

Don’t you just hate people who review books before they’re available? TOUGH. I just wrote this so I’ll post it now — remember to run down to an independent bookseller September 5th and pick up a copy!!   A Stolen … Continue reading →

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Meeting

Posted on August 19, 2006 by ubu507

Meeting   Tonight Sally and I are hanging out at school, sitting on the cabinets in the teachers lounge, waiting for everybody else to show up, feeling like we don’t belong even though we technically do, Sally’s skin onion paper … Continue reading →

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In My Father’s Gun Are Many Chambers: Quote Bag

Posted on August 18, 2006 by ubu507

In My Father’s Gun Are Many Chambers   All your America is like a dense Balzacian hive in a jewel point. – Jack Kerouac   The torn Madras handkerchiefs of negresses, and the red gowns of yellow girls, hanging in … Continue reading →

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Kerrytown Bookfest!!!

Posted on August 17, 2006 by ubu507

Here’s my short article about the bookfest for the Current magazine — god knows what the editors will do to it…   Don’t ever confuse a Book Festival with a Bookfest! While the Ann Arbor Book festival is a rather … Continue reading →

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