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Saturday, November 04, 2006

 

I now have two galley copies of Erica Kaufman's new chapbook. Only one of them is spattered in blood.

Word to the wise, kid: don't just go blithely reaching your hand into that bag with the razor blades in it.

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Friday, November 03, 2006

 

Weird dreams and a giant headache.

Good mail from Hot Whiskey and Ryan Murphy.

Just discovered where I stashed all those books I bought last month. Fernando Pessoa has been hiding under my sofa.

Going to work on a new Big Game chapbook this weekend. I'm also coming up to NYC on Sunday for businessy goodness on Monday. I am going to hit the bookstores. And hopefully eat guacamole. Mmm.


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I no longer know what to do about NPR. The bumps on the morning news get weirder and weirder. I just heard "Setting Sun" by the Chemical Bros. Aren't NPR's bumps supposed to be all classical music and noodly jazz?

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

 

It took about 45 minutes for me and my two Jack-o-Lanterns, Harvey and Oswald, to get cleaned out of nine bags of candy. Popular costumes this year: superheroes, ninjas, stormtroopers, princesses, fairies, and witches.

Best costumes: a 10 year old kid with a ridiculously outre "Blade" costume; a long-suffering four year old whose parents had dressed him up as an airplane (a ridiculous cardboard, silver-spray painted getup).

Made a teenage girl's night by correctly identifying her as Ariel, the little mermaid (how many other red haired, blue-green tailed mermaids d'ya know?) I too know the sorrow of the kid with the unidentifiable costume: I once went as a totem pole in a meticulously researched costume only to be called a candy bar, and most mortifyingly, "Gumby." Whatevs.

Funniest kid: chubby little girl with tiny fuzzy wings strapped to her back and pipe cleaner antennae who walked straight up to me, and deadpanned, "I'm a butterfly." "And you're beee-yoot-iful!" I said back.

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Yesterday was the kind of day that made me make these sorts of faces. Actually, that's my "pretending to be an angry monster" face.

I did sort of flip out at work around 5 p.m. and now I feel like an idiot. Casualties: a broken plastic "outbox" tray and some annoyed paralegals. Oh well.

Today I realized why my bathroom is always so cold -- and why I occasionally find leaves in it. There's a four-inch gap between the top window pane and the window frame. Like four inches of plain old open-to-the-air-space. I fixed this by pushing the window pane back up and then locking it into place with the bottom frame.

I have been living here for over a year and never noticed. Mark often comments on my inability to notice things I am not already prepared to notice. Like angry clowns in the park or people with horrible disabilities.

Today I am hoping to leave work early enough to get home and give out candy to the thousands of tiny children that litter my neighborhood. I carved two pumpkins to adorn my stoop, so that my house will be properly marked as a place of candified goodness.

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Monday, October 30, 2006

 

Today, I've been plagued by a sense of impending doom. I would like to hide.

There's nothing particularly wrong. I just feel cringy. Perhaps I'll spend some time under my desk, being secretive.

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Do you like spiders? Do you like beer? Do you like poets?

Then you should come out to the Burlesque Poetry Hour tonight at 8. All of those things will be present and accounted for.

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Sunday, October 29, 2006

 

This has been a weekend of crazy productivity. I cleaned my house and made my Xmas cards and finished 90% of my Xmas shopping. I carved two jack-o-lanterns, laid out the next five tinysides and designed their covers, laid out Erica Kaufman's chapbook and did the cover design for that. I also put finishing touches on my outfit for tomorrow's Burlesque Poetry Hour, where I will be reading poems and suchlike.

Now, alack, I must go to work.

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