from my notebook: class

Class is to sublime longing into thread for future clothes.
Class is twenty minds in pursuit of a genius loci.
Class is disciplines self to group.
Class is individuates self from group.
Class is the black pupil dragged across the white board.
Class is poetry by other means.
Class is poetry by mean.
Class is this being graded?

Holy Fucking Moley

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The “Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, H-O” by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994, has this entry: “moley n. (pop. As a characteristic exclamation of ‘Captain Marvel,’ hero of a series of comic books begun 1940, first written by C.C. Beck; perh. reflecting ‘moly’ [...]

National Book Critics Circle Finalists

So happy that D.A. Powell and Rachel Zucker are getting attention for their wonderful, nervy, daring books of poetry, Chronic and Museum of Accidents, respectively. Have been reading them recently and marveling.

National Book Critics Circle Finalists announced in the New York Times.

Meeting of the minds: Barbara Kruger and Bea Arthur

I don’t think this can be a real Barbara Kruger can it? She certainly defined an idiom, didn’t she?

from my notebook

the architecture of landfill
and promise of attribution

delight retribution
indolent of scarlet

mad effervescence
weakness untouched.

stirring vowels for everything
that follows

from my notebook (Marjorie Welish review)

The reporter says, “That’s journalism, not
a cultural event.”
Definition is extinction.

trademark

Epistrophy

“entitlement and its rhetoric”
“categorical start”
“template for affidavit”

such delicacies of wit [...]

Meta-commentary: “Twitter is…

Meta-commentary: “Twitter is looking more & more like plumbing & plumbing is eternal.” —stevenbjohnson.

Spot-on parody of HuffPost. Ho…

Spot-on parody of HuffPost. How pandering to sex and search algorithms undermine journalism: http://comedy.com/files/2010/01/HuffPoFinal.jpg

“What Nabokov said about art i…

“What Nabokov said about art is true of stamp collecting, fans, and every other compulsion: ‘It’s a relief from the itch of being.’”

Saw Moonstruck recently. Best …

Saw Moonstruck recently. Best thing about it the echoing (retweeting). Cher: “She’s too young for him.” Olympia: “She’s too young for you.”

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