Saturday, November 15, 2008





Belladodie: Jack Spicer’s Bedside Reading including items purchased at Vancouver's late lamented Book Bin...

just traveled with McDonald's excellent Lew Archer novel "The Chill" myself...









NC trees

"I Can Has Cheezburger?"
"We have seen the lolcats, and they are us..."

Friday, November 14, 2008







many thanks to Charlie & Jesse of the excellent THIS AIN'T THE ROSEDALE LIBRARY in Toronto, where I read with Stephen Cain last month...(not to mention the diner Kos across the street or the serious coffee place next door...)

Wednesday, November 12, 2008








PA/VA trees

Frank O'Hara (above w/ Grace Hartigan) on TV interviewing Barnett Newman, reading "Having a Coke With You" & c....

Tuesday, November 11, 2008



my recent reading at The French Broad Institute of Time & the River in Marshall, NC can be heard as part of Jeff Davis' Asheville radio show Wordplay...








NYC trees

Toastwatch
"The painful truth for conservatives is that the dogs aren't eating their dog food -- and every national trend indicates that they will never eat it again. Which means the GOP faces a wrenching choice: remain true to its increasingly irrelevant and rejected ideology and fade into political insignificance, or remake itself as essentially a more moderate version of the Democratic Party..."

Sunday, November 09, 2008


The Republican Party is Toast

"The US could be on the brink of a new
three- or even four-party era, with the Democrats dominating national
politics for decades to come..."









High Park trees