I feel like this could have been funnier if they’d taken me up on the suggestions I posted to my Tumblr.
“I went to a school with no grades”
January 15, 2012 by at 1:13 pm
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
JOB
Conflicted in early life between his desire to be a weatherman for local community access cable stations and a man who wears pants in July, JOB took the middle road and now writes poems between every waking moment. [Read More …]
Southern Expat
All you need to know is that I'm a lady, understand?
Behave yourselves accordingly. [Read More …]
As Father Kev Kevin reminded me yesterday at Reconciliation: I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
Thanks for the affirmation, Southern Expat!
The posts are more and more irritating and right wing. Either somebody else is reading or you want me to think they are.
I’m sticking to poetry these days, so you can’t blame me.
JOB
This clip is actually from an American program called “Saturday Night Live.” As to whether anyone is watching, I can’t speak to that.
I’m watching. And I almost think I love Daniel Radcliffe. I’m off to soak my head in cold water.
Subject 1 reports responding to photographs (specifically: photographs of ‘posh’ males ‘in suits and boots’).
Subject 2 reports responding to comments, photographs, and now, to videos (specifically: a video of actor Daniel Radcliffe performing Chinese calligraphy and Irish dance).
Fascinating.
Subtext, caution.
I believe it’s high time for a Kollektiv Album. The world needs more singer song-writers, after all.
The studio in Carlsbad awaits. I’ve got a track list and everything. But we’re going to need you to come out here. Cat, too, I think. I’ve been setting The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock to a pop tune reminiscent of The Primitives’ “Crash.” I think she’d sound good on it.
I concur with all. Post a link to The Primitives so we can get the tune in our kollectiv head.
God help us, Subject 2, we have some serious road tripping in our future.
Wisconsin ain’t that far. But yeah, Carlsbad is a drive. It’s not quite exactly the same as Crash, mind you, but the vocal style is similar…so. Listen to the way she says, “Here you go, way too fast,” and think “Let us go then, you and I…”