Wondering who is still here. Stephen? Anis? Sean?

I'd like to have some sort of forum to post things in that wasn't as "public" as facebook or twitter or whatever, and this never comes up in search results for my name and, frankly, anyone who knows I'm here is exactly the type of person I wouldn't mind keeping up with.

This is probably a terrible idea.

I'm relaunching my web site in December, and I have a section called "applause," where I'm including quotations from all kinds of people, generally about my writing. As I started to put things together, I realized that this particular page was fantastically boring (and stone-cold serious)... so here's what I need ( Read more... )

For any of you thinking about doing any making out in the near future, here's some medical information you need to be aware of :

Kissing, the filthiest custom of man, is the most important single method of accidental transmission of pneumonia, syphilis, leprosy and tuberculosis. Influenza, common colds, sore throats, measles, diptheria, scarlet ( Read more... )

"Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum."
-Graycie Harmon

I had sent the manuscript to about 40 agents when I started to get some positive (albeit reservedly so) responses. I went ahead with revision while sorting through these responses, then, finally, about two weeks ago, I got one that started off with a lot of ( Read more... )

I'm not a fan of the ads/interface on LJ ("apparently this is pronounced "leej"). So after 6 years of blogging here at the good ol' Livejournal, I am, for the most part, hanging it up. I have moved my blogging efforts to Blogspot, and you can read me here:
A History in Rust
Internet Fight

In the mean time, My buddy Micah posted this, and since I haven ( Read more... )

I've been doing a crap job at keeping up with new music this year. I went through the new bands I've heard this year, but this list strikes me as fantastically incomplete (and short!). What 2010 releases are getting heavy rotation on your iPod/CD player/record player/tape deck? I'm missing more than I'm hitting lately, so I could use a little help.

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This was my first exposure to Ani Difranco:

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And I know this won't import to Facebook correctly, so here's the link: Ani DiFranco - 32 Flavors (Live on PBS' Sessions at West 54th)

I think I saw this at around 16. Watching and listening to Ani in subsequent years fundamentally changed how I played guitar. She taught me to be political without being ( Read more... )

I have dropped off the radar, but I'm still alive and kicking. I'm not going to poetry readings at all anymore. I'm not on a slam team for the first time since 2004 (and won't be at NPS in August). I'm barely keeping up with reading. I'm lucky if I ride the Vespa twice a week. I'm out with friends maybe once a week? Twice if I'm lucky. The bike ( Read more... )

My post on rejection letters got a lot of good discussion going. I'm interested where this will go ( Read more... )

I just read some of my old poems. They are weird. I don't know if I like them or not. I don't know if I can go back to poetry or not. I just don't feel compelled to write slam anymore ( Read more... )