subscribeJan 24, 2010
my american sentences
At beauty school, one training head looks like Jesus, another like Cher.
When a poem has no music, it’s prose. I don’t care how you chop up the lines. — Sam Hamill
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newsblog: writing and arts
- thom donovan’s ‘a wildness’
September 6, 2010 | 2:05 pmThe dark will be a ground we recover in the night / Illegitimate, turning to those other bodies http://bit.ly/aJbaYW
- ca conrad’s #46 your mina loy portal
September 6, 2010 | 1:20 pmNow carry the stone for a week, taking notes while reading the poems of Mina Loy. For nearly a century her poems have been waiting to be used as keys for the map. http://bit.ly/9eOVsZ
- eric larsen’s ‘the recluse and his lightning’
September 4, 2010 | 7:17 pmi took the hose to fill each hole i dug / and drove a Woolworth’s remote control truck / in and out of the water http://bit.ly/bevHjl
- kristen mchenry’s ‘the adulterer’
September 4, 2010 | 7:10 pmGod, my symptoms / are so garish: this slick / pawing, clinging dead-drunk fucking / gulping our shame. http://bit.ly/dcwhCO
- eric larsen’s ‘autumn insulin’ (draft)
July 16, 2010 | 9:09 amonly cremation will do in this altitude / a plastic box of ashes spread white, not always granular / coarser bone shards, slivers of teeth http://bit.ly/djCKNR
- caconrad’s ‘#44 aids snow family’
July 8, 2010 | 7:55 pmIn January gather snow, this is intimate this calling to honor the shock of being alive. http://bit.ly/aXdMUX
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newsblog: issues and oddities
- new diagnostic tool lights up brains impaired by alzheimer’s
June 24, 2010 | 9:07 amDye could enable Alzheimer’s diagnosis and evaluation of treatment efficacy. http://nyti.ms/cknbuq
- reporters, photographers blocked from full coverage of bp spill
June 10, 2010 | 8:54 am“Journalists struggling to document the impact of the oil rig explosion have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by BP and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials.” http://nyti.ms/cxG2J5
- what john francis learned by not driving, not speaking
June 4, 2010 | 10:46 pmTry not driving for 22 years. And not speaking. John Francis did it. http://bit.ly/cCpUF8
- what social media can teach us and how we can teach social media
June 1, 2010 | 3:38 pmWill Richardson. Social media. Personal learning networks. Connectedness literacies. The classroom. http://bit.ly/anDEIb
- it’s not just on the surface
May 29, 2010 | 11:48 amUndersea plumes are a feature of the BP oil spill. http://nyti.ms/cfRMUP
- free time in the post-tv era
May 25, 2010 | 3:41 pmCognitive surplus, social networks and how we spend our spare time. http://bit.ly/d6TGte
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i can’t be bought
This is probably one of the coloest sentences I have ever seen.
Sorry – coolest – I can’t read what I am typing the way this box shows up in my browser.
Donna, thank you. And it’s true — all the mannequin training heads start out looking like Cher and Jesus, and then the student makes increasingly short hairstyles over a period of days or weeks before snapping on a new scalp and new facial hair. It’s pretty creepy, actually. I only know this because I tried getting my hair cut at a beauty school to save money — the results were disastrous.