Friday, October 30, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Shreddin'
My kids someday will be doing stuff I’ll never understand. People ten years younger are already leaving me in the dust.
If you haven’t already, check out Andy Riverbed’s blog. He doesn’t update often, but when he does, it’s an event. Embedded music, translations, links to his own work, links to other people’s work. In a lot of ways, this is better than a literary journal, it’s more of a magazine. Punk rock aesthetics. I’m especially enjoying his new collection up at Read Some Words, a journal I haven’t heard about until now but which publishes some poet I admire. The poems inMissed Connections and Casual Encounters were all published originally in that cool journal Craigslist. Public performance at its finest.
Now Madore’s Dispatch has incorporated audio, with original songs included with each issue. Issue 14 gets me excited because the author, Ian Singleton, is in the writing portion of the grad program I’m a part of, and I’m pretty good friends with the girl who edited the piece. He’s also getting his work out there.
And somewhere down the road, once I get Mark Baumer’s new book. Wait, Mark Baumer has a new blog about life as a getting-paid member of the Brown University MFA program?
“We are selfish and feel entitled to add to the world's clutter. It is our right to do exactly what we love, and to do it as well as we please.”
If you haven’t already, check out Andy Riverbed’s blog. He doesn’t update often, but when he does, it’s an event. Embedded music, translations, links to his own work, links to other people’s work. In a lot of ways, this is better than a literary journal, it’s more of a magazine. Punk rock aesthetics. I’m especially enjoying his new collection up at Read Some Words, a journal I haven’t heard about until now but which publishes some poet I admire. The poems inMissed Connections and Casual Encounters were all published originally in that cool journal Craigslist. Public performance at its finest.
Now Madore’s Dispatch has incorporated audio, with original songs included with each issue. Issue 14 gets me excited because the author, Ian Singleton, is in the writing portion of the grad program I’m a part of, and I’m pretty good friends with the girl who edited the piece. He’s also getting his work out there.
And somewhere down the road, once I get Mark Baumer’s new book. Wait, Mark Baumer has a new blog about life as a getting-paid member of the Brown University MFA program?
“We are selfish and feel entitled to add to the world's clutter. It is our right to do exactly what we love, and to do it as well as we please.”
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Chonto
"I did what I had to do... I injected heroin into the monkey's head."
This is something I found on a Wholphin DVD. I can't recommend Wholphin enough. This quarter's issue features a Joseph Gordon Leavitt-directed adaptation of an Elmore Leonard short story starring Eric Stoltz and Xander Berkeley.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Darrin Oliver
It's always a treat to go way back and read Steve Shea's Ode to Darrin Oliver, especially because Darrin Oliver is still pitching.
Related link: Carl Everett. Everett doesn't belive in dinosaurs and once headbutted an umpire. He was traded from the Red Sox for Darrin Oliver.
Related link: Carl Everett. Everett doesn't belive in dinosaurs and once headbutted an umpire. He was traded from the Red Sox for Darrin Oliver.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Science geek take note
All this talking about Wired magazine and did you see they're going to crash a satellite into the moon just to see what happens and you can watch NASA chase-craft coverage in about eight hours? Why didn't they tell me about this before now?
NASA TV.
NASA TV.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
How to get an author published
From: The Jargon
Date: Monday, March 12, 2007 12:06 AM
To: Vagabond Press
Subject: query
Is Vagabond Press accepting manuscript submissions?
I edit an online literary journal called Thieves Jargon (www.thievesjargon.com). One of my better writers has a manuscript of short stories, I thought I'd ask around on his behalf. The guy's name is Spencer Dew, he's a streetwise divinity student with a taste for exotic food, rare drink, and weird sex. Both his style and content cross between Henry Miller's thrill of the tactile and Chuck Palahniuk's pulpy intensity. He writes from Chicago, and his work sweats city grime.
Hey, I'm just sayin'.
Best,
Matt DiGangi
Thieves Jargon
Date: Monday, March 12, 2007 12:06 AM
To: Vagabond Press
Subject: query
Is Vagabond Press accepting manuscript submissions?
I edit an online literary journal called Thieves Jargon (www.thievesjargon.com). One of my better writers has a manuscript of short stories, I thought I'd ask around on his behalf. The guy's name is Spencer Dew, he's a streetwise divinity student with a taste for exotic food, rare drink, and weird sex. Both his style and content cross between Henry Miller's thrill of the tactile and Chuck Palahniuk's pulpy intensity. He writes from Chicago, and his work sweats city grime.
Hey, I'm just sayin'.
Best,
Matt DiGangi
Thieves Jargon
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