// & now, a hafiz moment… ‘ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.’
Month: May 2009
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I’m leading a poetry workshop at the Flood Gallery Fine Art Center titled: Write and Do Not Waste Time… email me if your interested…
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total of 150+ seedlings planted in the garden patches…
The north patch
the north patch : containing corn, peas, pumpkin, tomatoes, cucumber, sugar peas, cantaloupe, zucchini & winter squash…
the south patch : containing cherry tomatoes, peppers (bell, jalapeno, cayenne & bannana), cabbage & spinach…
A poem is not poetry. A designed artifact is not design.
// the plants are all snug in their beds (all plants from organic seed & some are organic heirloom seeds)… the rain is coming down…
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good thing i’m finished in the garden… the national weather services has issued the following: 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED…
Field notes
// returned books to the library. ran an errand. back in time for supper. back to gardening… before it starts to rain…
// the south garden has been completed… only thing left to plant are some cantaloupe, pea & some left over pepper & tomato plants…
// planting spinach, cabbage, pepper & tomato plants…
Perfect setting for your iTunes Equalizer
scumblr: beverlyhasablog: Oh my gosh this is amazing. My music sound so much clearer. Edit: This doesn’t sound too great with my heavier songs. The sound blurs together a bit. jayrobinson: If you’re look for the perfect setting for your iTunes Equalizer, look no further. Set it to Manual to calibrate, then “Make Preset…” once you’re done. db +3, +6, +9, +7, +6, +5, +7, +9, +11, +8 db
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kidlinger tells me he wants to eat at burgermeister everynight… maybe even forever…
// the retro playboy themed découpage table top at burgermeister is tame compared to page 69 of the recent j. crew catalog…
// burgermeister has découpage table tops of old magazine pages & clippings… somehow we found the only table with a retro playboy theme…
// she says, want to eat at burgermeister (http://www.burgermeisters.com/)? yes, now serving wedge beer (http://www.wedgebrewing.com/)…
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the sixth Coffeehouse Junkie Podcast… a poem from the book Calenture and a poem from patricia smith will be read on this podcast episode…
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thars sumptin, idunno, nostalgic? bout eatin lunch at a place playin ol’time country music ‘bout desperados & do cowboys go t’heaven…
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today that waiter calls me buddy…
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It’s 10:30 and my co-workers just realized that I’m here. I’ve been here since 9 and one of them came into my office and said “oh, you’re here. How long have you been here?”
That’s a good feeling.
oh, in know that feeling… though, for me, sometimes it’s mid afternoon before they realize i’m in the office… happy, happy, joy, joy… & pass me another beer…
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just got flipped off by a complete stranger while i ate special a at the guad… welcome to america’s happiest city… fugitaboutit…
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that being said… i think i’ll head off to lunch with the biggest book of poetry i can find within reach…
// love the pejorative tone many bourgeois have toward the idea of poetry readings…
“[Khalil] Gibran’s ‘masterpiece’… turns not so much upon poetry as upon the genre of wisdom literature and its subgenre, the aphorism, which holds a particularly valued place in Arab culture. Like all good aphorists, he uses language that is both plain and metaphorical; it invites understanding yet in a way that brushes against the mysteries of being alive. There’s no doubt that the style occasionally ascends into comical elevations, and that its high tone seems lost in the ironies and specificities of American life. But that sort of spiritual homelessness pretty much describes a large swath of immigrant life.” (via poetry & popular culture)
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