On Friday I managed, for the first time, to make it to one of Stephanie’s apartment readings. The setting is absolutely perfect, as if Stephanie had gotten the place just for this purpose: a big kitchen where food was laid out before the reading, and a gorgeous living room with lots of dark wood, couches, chairs, cushions, and even a…
Author: Timothy Yu
It’s too bad I don’t fly more often—I’d have a much steadier supply of blog material. Today’s in-flight entertainment included a documentary on the founder of Hershey’s Chocolate. I’m returning from a fun-filled trip back to the Bay Area, where an hour or two of actual academic business helped justify what was really a poetry vacation. There was a delightful…
Blogs in space: Now blogging to you from 39,000 feet, on my way to San Jose. Seemed like a better way to pass the time than watching the four hours of golf commercials that the video screens seem intent on bringing to me. This will be my first trip back west since moving to Chicago in August. Everyone always assumes…
Tuned into the banned-in-Iowa episode of Saturday Night Live just in time to see Al Sharpton blow whatever miniscule chance he had to win the Asian vote in 2004. I mean, come on. Sushi jokes are so 1980s. Not to mention which the sushi chef in the background made up to look Japanese just reminds you that there are no…
Loop [2] Sir Smack is kiss-and-go at the kill-dare pump. Pulled as keys from a scent-full ark off the kidding Z. California’s western horn is the 18th time pork raised its voice to halt it, a clung ton, a lazy L.
I can’t get that damn Strokes song out of my head.
Loop [1] The howling oak’s parked along the ridge and the cost of tin sent rallies through me. Cicero pulls ass—kid conserves a story. Keds in every tree.
Hello Hello, And please go pronto to the brand-new SHAMPOO issue 19: www.ShampooPoetry.com Yes, yes, you really must. It is so super-sudsy and includes such starry ingredients as Alli Warren, Zinovy Vayman, Eileen Tabios, Todd Swift, Chris Stroffolino, Ron Silliman, Todd Shalom, Suzy Saul, Christopher Rizzo, Chris Murray, Gordon Moyer, Bruna Mori, Bobbi Lurie, Lewis LaCook, W.B. Keckler, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa,…
The Last Samurai certainly looks like an “orientalist nightmare” (Robin originally thought upon seeing the teasers that Tom Cruise was being cast as a Japanese man, although I’m not sure the truth is a whole lot better)–but I can tell you that since coming home at the beginning of this week my father can talk about nothing else besides going…
Santa, I want a Pinay Barbie for Christmas.