You’ve listened to his mixtapes, now look at his photographs. My pal Steve toys, oh, let’s say semiannually with an honest-to-goodness Web blog/journal of writing, and but until we get some commitment on that end, what luck that he’s consistent about updating his Tumblr photo blog.
They’re really good, right? What I like about Steve’s photos [...]
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Let me know anything you may want to know about Chicago O’Hare Airport’s Terminal 2 because after visiting it eight times in under three weeks I think I know a good deal about it. There’s a McDonald’s at the terminal’s groin over there; a Chili’s Too where a bartender named George (pretty sure, who bears [...]
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weird-science
verb, trans.
1. to fashion an object out of thin air, or to improve the general quality of a pre-existing object, using the vague powers that have seemingly been placed within you by a pair of horny experimenting teens: I’m starving; it’d be great if someone could weird-science me a pizza | Huh, this sweater must [...]
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One of the effects of being on the academic job market as I’ve been since, oh, September, is that you stop thinking. You stop engaging in much else around you that’s not an academic job posting, or a certain wiki. Your loved ones suffer and your liked ones do. Your students. And but it’s also [...]
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Maybe we don’t have to choose.
Or maybe some don’t. I chose Alabama. Suck it, Texas.
Not in chronological order:
Terminator: Salvation
Miracle on 34th Street (original)
Home for the Holidays
The Marc Pease Experience
The Brothers Bloom
xXx
Alice (Svankmejer, dir.)
Inglorious Basterds (sic, pending)
What else is there to do when it’s single-digits and snowdrifted outside?
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Thanks, Sara G. You’re welcome, music-starved ears of Lincoln, Nebraska.
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World Wrestling Entertainment has a position open for a creative writer. I’m getting a PhD soon in creative writing. It seems like a natural fit.
One needs to both live in or near Stamford, Conn., and also be willing to travel (supposedly for last-minute script changes?). They require three to five years TV production or writing [...]
On Labor Day, 2009, I lost my camera (sorry, Mom!) and the day after Thanksgiving, 2009, it was found (thanks, N!). Here’s what you (and I) missed:
Thanksgiving weekend roundup to come.
Just found out that my short pedagogy paper (see above title) was accepted for the pedagogy panels at the 2010 AWP conference. It’s in Denver in April. It’s not a terribly huge thing (dozens upon dozens of people get accepted), but still nice to hear.
Here are the basics of the thing I’ll be presenting:
First, students [...]
Herndon, Virginia, the town I’m from, has been popping up in the oddest places lately. First on Patton Oswalt’s DVD Werewolves and Lollipops, and now on passiveaggressivenotes.com one of the blogs I semi-frequent. The site’s a depository for people to send in scans/photos of notes they’ve found or been left that usually form some kind [...]
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Tonight, after an episode of Man v. Food which sent Adam Richman to Pittsburgh to stuff his gut along the Strip, I decided it was time to introduce N to the Primanti’s sandwich.
Italian bread, kielbasa, provolone, homemade fries, and homemade cole slaw. It wasn’t 2:30am after a night at the bar, but we ate them [...]
Has anyone seen the new Miller High Life ad campaign? Well: “new”. The one where some distributor/deliveryman wiseacre crashes upper-crust fetes at the horse track and I think a yacht? and kidnaps their untouched cases of Miller High Life to then redistribute / -deliver said cases to “common sense” folk?
Putting aside the whole general dumb [...]
Did you know that Tesh is kind of a media empire now? From Entertainment Tonight host to Yanni-lite act to syndicated radio host. He’s on before Delilah, I think, on at least two stations in the Omaha/Lincoln broadcasting area.
To differentiate his act from others, Tesh has come up with this factoids-as-public-service bent. “Intelligence for Your [...]
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Got the current issue of Tampa Review in the mail today. It’s in hardcover! There’s an essay in there taken from the opening chapter of The Authentic Animal, about a dead pet canary that becomes a museum relic.
Other essays therein by Douglas Danoff, Jack E. Fernandez, and Gary Fincke. Fiction by Heather Brittain Bergstrom, John [...]
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Tomorrow I fly to go marry my sister.
To, that is, her boyfriend.
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Higgs takes contemporary art images out of the hands of gallery and museum-sanctioned curators, and into the arms of a renegade whose way of uniting images and text feels more related to poetry than to the expectations of art curation.
That’s from Art in America, y’all. So that makes it official.
Higgs’s um “blog” (sorry Higgs) has [...]
The delay in posting has been long. Very sorry. I’ve been waiting jumpily until I could officially announce that my book, The Authentic Animal, has been picked up for publication by St Martin’s Press.
St. Martin’s Press!
I’m way too excited to be able to say much about it. Mostly I don’t know what to do [...]
Omaha’s KXVO is showing a whole bunch of Simpsonses I’ve never seen before. And now I’ve got a new favorite quote:
If word gets out about this, Kwazy Klown Airlines will be a laughingstock.
Take that, “Are there any persons, spells, or critters to which you attribute this accolade?”!
