So on Saturday I said, among other things: 1. “Silliman…rarely, if ever, refers to a post on someone else’s blog or links to it; nor does he, like nearly every other blogger I read, have any links to others’ blogs.” 2. “I read the blogs I read because I like the blog itself, rather than some presumed “real” work that…
Back working in the Emory Lee papers today, looking at issues of the Asian American Review, a mid-1970s publication from Asian American Studies at Berkeley. The journal’s a mix of academic essays, interviews, journalism, short stories, and poems. A sample, from Luis Syquia’s “Bayanihan Kearney Street”: And the old men die slow on Kearney street/Manilatown Eating their kalding,dinuguan,patis adobo,isda and…
An email, ostensibly from Barbara Boxer: “Dear Mr. Yu: Thank you for contacting me regarding Senator Rick Santorum’s recent remarks regarding homosexuality. I appreciate hearing from you. We are all God’s children. I find Senator Santorum’s remarks offensive and hurtful and he should retract them. Who the political parties choose to lead them sends a message to America. And we…
Intrepid poet and SHAMPOO editor Del Ray Cross exposed my binary thinking on the soda/pop question: “tim, i’m neither a soda person nor a pop person. i’m a coke person. we’re coke people in arkansas.”
Okay, I used it as the opportunity for a lame joke. But now that David and Kasey have weighed in on Ron Silliman’s remarks today on us “50 or so poetry bloggers,” I think there may be less to Silliman’s comments than it might first appear, though I might also object on different grounds. The entry is actually about Halvard…
Congratulations, Jim Behrle, K. Silem Mohammad, Sandra Simonds, Gabe Gudding, Laura Willey, Heriberto Yepez, Nick Piombino, Nada Gordon & Jim [sic] Duemer! You’ve been yoked!
President Bush is in town. I’m looking now at a photo in the SJ Mercury News of a man carrying a sign that reads: PRESIDENT BUSH OUR FEARLESS LEADER WHO TRULY CARES ABOUT AMERICA
Perhaps the only thing more embarrassing than recognizing an allusion to “Kindergarten Cop” is being the one who made it in the first place.
Kasey: “Eventually all blogs will just fuse together into one big throbbing self-referential digital tumor.” Perhaps. But maybe, in the words of California’s next governor: “It’s not a tumor.”
Are you a “soda” person or a “pop” person? I used to be a “pop” person, but I’ve sold out.