Enjoying the cut-ups and collages at Ironic Cinema, esp. the writing-through of Proust: legend were my sorrows my room the light arms of my mother

Speaking of favorite montages–though I admit being the film rube I am I’m not even sure this really is one–I have the screenplay of Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould here and was flipping through it and remembering the scene where Gould goes into a truck stop to have breakfast (all bundled up & anonymous) and begins eavesdropping on people’s…

Jeffrey Jullich’s original query about line breaks (to which I was responding earlier this week) is posted over at Silliman’s Blog, along with Silliman’s own, very interesting, reflections on the matter.

from Summi Kaipa… Interlope #9 is out! Interlope, the journal of Asian American poetics, has just released its 9th issue featuring work by: Minal Hajratwala Michelle Naka-Pierce Jerrold Shiroma Ken Tanemura Hung Q. Tu Tim Yu Single issues are available for individuals at $5/each. Please send checks (payable to Summi Kaipa) to: Interlope PO Box 423058 San Francisco, CA 94142…

An email came in (no, don’t worry, a very nice one) over the weekend from Jeffrey Jullich, asking, in the wake of the discussion of Linda Pastan over at lime tree, what “lines” and “meter” even mean these days–can it be measured by conventional scansion, is it some kind of intuitive going on your nerve, is it an anarchic free-verse-for-all,…

The crazy-warm weather–it’s in the 80s today–is killing the Cubs but bringing out the ladybugs, who have been wakened from their hibernation and are menacing downtown pedestrians. I tried looking out the living-room window this morning and found my vision obscured by about two dozen ladybugs clinging to the inside of the screen and crawling up and down the pane.…

Well, at least the“Racial Privacy” initiative went down. I’d been planning to keep my race private, but I guess there’s no hiding it now. Look out. Raar.