My neighbor’s been blaring Sinatra out his window all night.
Author: Timothy Yu
I’m finally on a crush list! It’s not Jim’s. But I’ll take it. Let’s see if I can be up blogging later than Nick tonight. He has that East Coast time zone advantage though.
Cassie has seen The Matrix! Waiting to see if poetry as we know it has been changed forever. Slavoj Zizek: “When I saw The Matrix at a local theatre in Slovenia, I had the unique opportunity of sitting close to the ideal spectator of the film–namely, to an idiot. A man in his late twenties at my right was so…
Steve Evans has posted a longer excerpt of the Flaubertian proto-blog critique, as well as a thoughtful response to Kasey’s calling him out.
Poetry Espresso, discussion group and poetry publisher extraordinaire, has a new website up, complete with a Cassie Lewis home page, which will, for better or worse, prevent this picture from being Cassie’s main presence in cyberspace.
I guess I was being too sensitive. But I think I will now refer to it as “TBFKAJMB.” Or just: “The Blog.”
My friend Alex von Krogh (hi Alex) is probably one of the few non-poetry folks who even knows of the existence of this blog. I think we started talking about it when we were having lunch one day and Alex said he was starting to write restaurant reviews for Citysearch, which prompted me to reveal my own web presence. He…
Ick. This sounds a bit like flarf that’s taking itself way too seriously.
The quote: “Gustave Flaubert, proleptic critic of blog culture: “In fact, there is nothing more pernicious than being able to say everything and having a convenient outlet. You become very indulgent with yourself; and your friends are the same with you, in order that you may be so with them” (Letter to Louise Colet, 31 March 1853).” Ouch. But of…
Let me be the, um, second to welcome to blogland the pride of Melbourne and Fremont, Cassie Lewis.