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September 06
September 29, 2006
HELLO DREAMERS: I am currently collecting SHORT SHORT STORIES again, this time for a show I’m doing w/Carlita Trujillo on Dreams & Dreams, opening in November, and for Incredibly Short Stories #3 which is to be published in conjunction. wtf TELL ME A STORY ANY STORY in 100 words or less (about the size of this post). seeking scenarios for magical wish fulfillment “I still secretly want to sail the high seas” and/or DREAM dreams “I was eating an apple but it wasn’t really an apple and my teeth fell out but they could float and then they weren’t really teeth” that sort of thing. you can mail them to The Rubbish Gallery 17B Bijou St. Colorado Springs, CO 80904, or email them to marinaeckler at hotmail dot com, or preferably post them here in the comments section. DEADLINE IS 10/10 AT THE VERY LATEST. dates & details to follow. many thanks in advance.
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September 27, 2006
Oh, Wiki.
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September 27, 2006
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September 27, 2006
Dustin Diamond has a sex tape in which he gives someone a Dirty Sanchez.
The working title is “Saved by the Smell.”
All other news is heretofore irrelevant.
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September 26, 2006
Say you are awesome. Say you are really awesome. Say you were awesome enough to receive $500,000 with “no strings attached” to do with whatever you please, simply because you are awesomely capable of deciding how to spend that much money on advancing your awesomeness. That would be awesome.
This “awesome award” is also known as the “genius grant” also known as the MacArthur Fellowship. The Foundation recently announced its 2006 receipients, who will cash in over the course of five years.
I was overwhelmingly happy to see George Saunders make the list. I guarantee that Saunders does satire better than anyone else writing right now, and everyone is doing satire right now. His use of the question mark is unparalleled. His stories are, simply put, delicious. Anyone who’s read The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil or Pastoralia knows what I’m talking about.
Or, just read this:
At Sea Oak there’s no sea and no oak, just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear view of FedEx. Min and Jade are feeding their babies while watching How My Child Died Violently. Min’s my sister. Jade’s our cousin. How My Child Died Violently is hosted by Matt Merton, a six-foot-five blond who’s always giving the parents shoulder rubs and telling them they’ve been sainted by pain. Today’s show features a ten-year-old who killed a five-year-old for refusing to join his gang. The ten-year-old strangled the five-year-old with a jump rope, filled his mouth with baseball cards, then locked himself in the bathroom and wouldn’t come out until his parents agreed to take him to FunTimeZone, where he confessed, then dove screaming into a mesh cage full of plastic balls.
Yum.
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September 26, 2006
This event should be great. Will also feature rare photos by Aronson of Ginsberg during his time up at Naropa in Boulder.
In conjunction with the Pikes Peak Lavender Film Festival, Smokebrush
presents “The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg: An Evening of Film,
Poetry, and Conversation” on Saturday, September 30th. Hosted by
Director Jerry Aronson, the night includes a film screening, bonus
footage, a Q&A with the director, and readings of Ginsberg poetry by
some of Colorado Springs’ best poets. Aronson’s documentary features
interviews and footage, creating an intimate portrait of the visionary
poet in the context of America’s cultural journey from the 1940s to our
current time. The program begins at 6pm, and costs $10 at the door.
KRCC members, with cards, receive a $2 discount. BONUS: If you bring
in an original poem about or inspired by Allen Ginsberg, you will earn
$5 off at the door, plus a chance to hear your poem read aloud by the
featured poets!
Smokebrush Gallery
218 W. Colorado Ave.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
(719) 444-1012
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September 26, 2006
Read this. Then read this smackdown of the lefty blogs who star fucked Clinton. Or you can read this one.
Clinton’s been on Larry King, Fox News, The New Yorker in the last few weeks. Guess the missus is running, bummer. Sad too that a bunch of independent bloggers get googly eyes at Bubba. Don’t know if that means they’re joining Team Hillary or not, but still…
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September 25, 2006
There’s an interesting piece by Dallas Observer editor Julie Lyons on that paper’s blog. Many here might know this already, but the Observer is part of the same Village Voice Media empire that owns Westword and about 16 other papers around the country.
In her essay Lyons probes the "complexities" of sexual orientation, how she confronted her own same-sex attraction but eventually came to Jesus, and poof, it was all better, faster.
It’s less irritating that an alt weekly editor is a Christain fundamentalist with archaic views on homosexuality, and no real ability, or willingness, to distinguish between civil and religious definitions of marriage. It’s a little irritating that she conflates homosexuality and the movement toward marriage equality with a larger culture of "self-absorption." Hell, she’s writing a personal essay on a blog so the same charge could be levelled at her.
What really, really grates, however, is wrapping herself in the righteous banner of "defying" the alt. weekly party line. You see, Lyons is a "brave" iconoclastic thinker who’s willing to "carve a middle ground" for herself in the politbureau that is the alternative press. Witness:
But in my profession and in my sphere—the alternative press—gay
marriage is pretty much a non-issue. Anyone who opposes it—in other
words, someone who holds an alternative view–is considered a bigot, a
hater and a homophobe. Yeah, I know: irony and all that. But we in the
alternative press are pretty good at failing to detect the uniformity
of our nonconformity. And in the face of that, I’m just gonna have to
risk all of those nasty labels and carve out my own middle ground.
Ooooh. Here’s another writer quite willing to applaud Lyons and her "courage" here.
There’s probably less need to strike down Lyons’s claim that she’s carving out some middle ground because when you’re dealing with Christian fundamentalists — and yeah, I’m calling girlfriend a fundy, straight up — there’s scripture and there’s everything else. God’s word and the rest. You submit, or you don’t. Period. And Lyons, for all her nuance and yearning for complexity has shown her cards. I’m down with Salon’s Michelle Goldberg on this, who writes in her book Kingdom Coming — and I’m paraphrasing here — that there’s no point in arguing with the religious right because if your secular or a non-literalist Christian or a Jew, Muslim, Wiccan, etc.. you can’t even agree on the nature of reality. What’s there to talk about?
Lyons piece, which is well written indeed, and it raises, for me at least, the following question: Just because you’re going against the grain does this mean you’re courageous or respectable? I tend to think, um, fuck no.
For instance, what if another editor confessed in a similar blog to wrestling with his or her deep seated discomfort with races different from their own? As a result, they’ve embraced eugenics. This too would surely be "brave" and it would surely defy the so-called alt. press party line, but it wouldn’t be respected by anyone. And that’s a good thing. So why is this case different? Where exactly is this middle ground? Just because you’re not Fred Phelps, hardly means you’re a moderate when you take "Because The Bible Says So" as your definitive answer to all of life’s complexities.
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September 21, 2006
This was the scene last Saturday at the Whickerbill as dozens of cups, bowls, plates and tscachkes lay forsaken on the nearly empty tables of the Whickerbill, now forever a part of the memory of downtown when it wasn’t one giant Guadagnoli night club:
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September 21, 2006
KRCC has recently added a brief 10 minute spot of the wonderful business/economics public radio program Marketplace to its morning radio lineup. It’s only the morning report right now, but it replaces the ultra lame NPR business report and airs at 10 minutes to 8 a.m.
My friend Amy Scott, a Colorado Springs native who now lives in New York, is a reporter for them.
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