This guy

gazes into his navel and is blinded by the threat of other people's names and so tattoos them there:

Or maybe this chart is like an enema that flushes out disparagement of real live people by pretending they are "personas" only.

They are personas, too, but they are people.

Or maybe it is an assflower or a dickprint.

Whatever it is, let's try to think of some bodily metaphors that aren't "douche" and "menstrual."

I'm not gonna link to it; I took that site off my blogroll a few months ago when it started to make me feel uneasy almost every time I read it (misogyny, lack of substance, comment trolls).

Some similar testimonials are going on now, on Facebook and blogs.

Bone Bouquet Issue 2.2!

Bone Bouquet is . . .

. . . edited with style & guts by Krystal Languell & co.

. . . perfect-bound, just perfecto, and fun to hold in the hand.

. . . willing to publish my essay on Alice Notley's Disobedience (2001) alongside crazyawesome work by Marisa Crawford, Daniela Olszewska, Rosa Alcalá, Gina Myers, Deborah Poe, & more.

You can read sample work or buy the issue for a mere six clams here.

Submit here.

oh look Daniela relaunched her blog

and the ice cream's still bloody.

Oh and did you hear Artifice mag's new imprint is going to put out her first full-length book of poems, Citizen J?

I wonder if she will do those creepy Happy Monday posts again?

Dusie 5 Videos

Deborah Poe was kind enough to take little vids at the Dusie 5 reading at Zinc Bar last night. Here's mine, and links to the rest:

1. Cara Benson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPuNDGA_PCk
2. Maria Damon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBpNuI5VeuM
3. Amanda Deutch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eac4OTQrGHE
4. Jennifer K. Dick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yblKFaXYZko
5. Deutch & Dick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XGnQ4eCLIY
6. Marthe Reed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvvxWweCZeA
7. Micahel Ruby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsO48vgWLC8
8. Kathrin Schaeppi 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOqiHA4I564
9. Kathrin Schaeppi 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGMah7udK10
10. Vincent Zompa 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnctpzR4WzM
11. Vincent Zompa 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE5fTP7NSNw
12. Susana Gardner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtrkG7Rj35s

Items!

Item #1: AK & I moved to this new spot in Brooklyn and are keeping cool 'n' mellow in the crossbreeze:

After being away from regular internet for just a couple of days, suddenly what I missed looks like a discernible pile instead of a vanishing stream. Here's some stuff:

Item #2: Caolan Madden is reading for The Folding Chair series on her birthday tonight -- you should come!

Item #3: Brandi & I did an interview with Liz Hildreth for Bookslut about Bobcat Country and LA Liminal -- read it here!

Item #4: Matt L. Rohrer has a new website.

Item #5: Check out Gabriel Specter + his public art at the New York Daily Beast.

Item #6: You can stream the new War on Drugs album here.

Item #7: Wild Flag has a trailer for their upcoming debut album:

Item #8: Drew Barrymore directed the teenage gang-angsty video for Best Coast's "Our Deal," featuring iCarly, the new Teen Wolf, Maeby Fünke, Hit Girl, Troy from Community, and more:

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