Category: Storytelling
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Oakrageous
A week ago today, before I realized how sick I was getting, I made it down to downtown Oakland for (second?) Oakland bloggers’ (and auxiliary) luncheon at the Pacific Coast Brewery, aka Ladies (& Gents) Who Lunch (or: A much-needed excuse to leave the house). What a great gang of folks, some familiar to me…
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More on Ornette in N.O.
My friend in New Orleans sent me this link to the article about Ornette’s performance at Jazz Fest from the Times-Picayune.
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Brought home the good weather
Everyone says it’s rained pretty hard the whole time we were out of town, but it was only partly cloudy (thick, fat clouds, though, with gray areas) last night and today I’m seeing the same windswept crystal blue sky we had in New Orleans, decorated by the local variety of cloudfluff, so maybe the same…
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Brush with a pro-am ponzi
Brush with a pro-am ponzi schemer. I wasn’t surprised when my cellphone rang because I had already told the guy who’d sent me the query to call me the next day. It was hard enough juggling a fulltime job at an insane startup while still trying to keep up my contacts with publishers and keep…
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Jazz Fest 2003, day 3
The good news is I haven’t had time each day to get online and upload pictures and such and even now I’m just going to dump raw notes and maybe come back to it later: large iced café au lait beignets …to Blues tent to grab seats, then back out for… crab cake and seafood…
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Jazz Fest 2003, day 2.
Jazz Fest 2003, day 2. Moise & Alida Viator with Eh, La-Bas!, a surprisingly funky creole fusion. I accidentally capture a few seconds of this couple dancing (with crowds streaming between them and the camera): [click pictures for larger shots] When they’re done we head for some large iced café au lait, and b buys…
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Jazz Fest 2003, day 2
Moise & Alida Viator with Eh, La-Bas!, a surprisingly funky creole fusion. I accidentally capture a few seconds of this couple dancing (with crowds streaming between them and the camera): [click pictures for larger shots] When they’re done we head for some large iced café au lait, and b buys some earthernware pottery from Dallas.…
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Writer, killed in war, eulogized
Ken Layne has got Michael Kelly‘s back, with links to other remembrances.
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Water muse
The moment I delivered the bad news, it seemed, the rain started, coming down hard right away. I looked to my right at my empty water glass and thought about how parched the back of my mouth felt right then, wondered how long I’d been this thirsty. The sky’d been threatening all day, tempting with…
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Sleepless Planet's call for submissions.
Sleepless Planet’s call for submissions. Warren Ellis announces SLEEPLESS PLANET in his die puny humans blog, calling it “a one-year-long nonprofit webmagazine about creativity and activism on the web and any other bloody thing I feel like. It pays no money. It provides only the opportunity to show what you do to a wider audience…
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Ishle unplugged. While I didn't
Ishle unplugged. While I didn’t manage to stay long enough to see all three bands (I missed Zmrzlina and Sonny Smith) at Watchword‘s Dec 8 event at Café du Nord, I did catch Sam Tsitrin’s new combo, Ebb and Flow, who presented a fluid velvet beefheart groove style, and I heard all three poets (Ishle…
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New reading series in San
New reading series in San Francisco. Wednesday, December 4th at 7:30 pm 2390 Mission Street Suite #10, at 20th and Mission $2 New Series New Writing///a creative// new series of readings by some of the BayArea’s most talented writers plus a free chapbook at every readingtonight’s fabulous readers:Chaim Bertman, Sasha Cagen, Stephanie Young, Liz WorthyFor further information contact…
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True dat
What do you call a garden blog written by two people, discussing their plans, decision, thoughts, reflections, illustrated with digital images of the two gardens or the plants in them, with links to other gardening resources and the few (very few) other easily-findable examples of literate garden writing online? Briggs and Rich call it True…
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New arts journal: Princeton Independent.
New arts journal: Princeton Independent. Princeton University hosts an alumni network service called TigerNet, featuring mailing lists among other services. One such list is called Princeton-Writing and serves as a kind of coffeepot for writers. Eric Lubell, a writer from the Princeton class of ’76, felt that alumni are not especially well served by the…
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Watchword Issue 4 Release Party
Watchword Issue 4 Release Party at Café du Nord (in S.F.) on December 8. Watchword Press is proud to annouce the release of their fourth issue of Watchword by hosting an exciting evening of literary entertainment featuring contributors Ishle Yi Park, Maw Shein Win, and Stephanie Young. Also, come hear the mesmerizing music of Zmrzlina,…
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Christmas on Park Avenue
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Jane Fonda, Barbra Streisand, and
Jane Fonda, Barbra Streisand, and Hillary Clinton. Today my father finally has an all-female axis of evil. It wasn’t clear to me for a while whom Hillary…
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Electronic Literature Directory Again Open to New Listings
The ELO’s Electronic Literature Directory is now once more allowing authors to log in and update their listings: If you’re not yet listed in the Directory but should be, please request a listing and an account. In the past we’ve been very slow to respond to requests for accounts, but we now have a staff,…