March 2012
10 posts
NOT WRITING
In the 2009 documentary The Carter, Lil Wayne is interviewed by a European journalist.
JOURNALIST: “There is some form of jazz in your poetry?”
LIL WAYNE: “No, sir. There isn’t.”
JOURNALIST: “When you gets to compose a song, is it done on the spot when you go to the studio, or do you write it down in a journal?”
LIL WAYNE: “I don’t write music. I just record when I get there.”
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BROTHERS
Here are some of my favorite brothers from this list of brothers who share Wikipedia pages.
Chudnovsky Brothers
These are Russian-American mathematicians. The older one is five years older and is “one of the world’s best living mathematicians.” His younger brother has a disease called myasthenia gravis. He is the older one’s assistant. They work together.
Wikipedia says:...
“A gasoline organ began to play at the end of the apartment, and we profound...”
– All sic, Owen Wister, How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee (1907)
Dogs trained to be seeing eye dogs must pass the Umbrella Test. An umbrella is opened in front of the puppy to see how they react. If they are scared of it, they fail the test and won’t be trained.
I met a family who had a failed seeing eye dog.
In Grand Central Station in New York, the line to the women’s bathroom always stretches out into the food court. The line to the men’s bathroom is always within the threshold of the bathroom.
This is because men piss faster than women. Men are built in a way that lets them piss faster. And because there are more places to piss in the men’s bathroom.
BLADE RUNNER
ESSAY
1.
In the episode of The Office “Tallahassee,” Creed Bratton says that he’s written “like 12 plays” so far that day. What are the plays that he wrote? How can we read them? Where can we see them played out? Has he written plays before this quiet day at the office, or did he just decide to write some plays and these are his first ones?
2.
On the occasion of Tao...
The last 3 emails are from TurboTax.
In bed last nite I thot about working at my job for the next year. Then I would take the money I’d saved and buy into a cooperative soybean farm in Iowa. We’d all be hippies and anarchists there. I would work on the farm every day and get a tan and stop doing drugs. I wouldn’t even drink the wine we’d make. We wouldn’t have the internet or a computer. We’d all...
ELIMAE CHEAT CODES
In 1920, Robert Frost had a poem published in Harper’s Magazine.
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
In February 2012, me and Alex Sheppard had a poem published in...
