Link: Revisiting a Poem I Didn’t Really Like, but Read for a Russian Audience Anyway
I hated a poem I wrote in November and ended up reading today for a ‘poetry contest’. This article is about what I was trying to do/why I failed miserably. on (Rub Paw Press)
Also, Post 700…..woo
Link: Messages I Have Actually Sent To Girls On OKCupid
could you please tell me what library of congress film features boxing cats, I think I’d like to see cats box. I wonder if it is how I imagine
Link: The Improbable Story of a Sweatshirt
Recently I ran into a girl here in Tomsk who was wearing a sweatshirt from Hatfield, a small neighboring town to my hometown. I wrote a post about it on (Rub Paw Press)
Poland I: Warsaw/Beatbox Maracas/Wait We Understand Polish?/Where the Milk Bars at?
part two in an apparently ongoing series about Keith Birthday’s recent travels through Europe. (part one here)
It was probably the most absurd thing that I had seen/heard in a while, the ‘DJ’ in this Warsaw basement bar was making a ‘shicka-shicka’ sound into the microphone in rhythm to the music, in what appeared a very lame attempt at beatboxing along with the music. At that point I wondered two things: a.) did he actually think that it sounded good? and b.) why on earth did he decide that the best sound to use in order to accompany the music was a half-assed maraca? Looking at K and the Australian and the other Australian they all seemed to agree, and we all imitated him and laughed…..(more)
