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First, a story: J has gone to SXSW by herself this year because I am hard at work saving pennies for Tin House and Coachella. All weekend people have been whispering, pointing and outright accosting her because she looks like the Deal twins. On Friday night J was at a show and she ran into Kim Deal ( Read more... )

On my way to class tonight, Phil called and offered me an extra ticket and camping pass to Coachella. And do you know that I actually thought for a second, and even said aloud, "I don't know if I can afford it."

And then about .007864 of a second after I hung up the phone I went, WHAT THE FUCK AM I TALKING ABOUT?

I'm going to Coachella!

After great pain a formal feeling comes ( Read more... )

I started Early - Took my Dog ( Read more... )

I bought Low's The Great Destroyer on vinyl while we were at Amoeba records in the Haight . Even more than the re-released Tigermilk or the four-volume Decade, I think I like this record best. Evenings, I drink a glass of wine and toss a salad together, the Mavs on mute, listening to Low on rich, lipidy, gorgeously astute velvety vinyl. I think ( Read more... )

Softest of Tongues ( Read more... )

Visible Woman

In the dark museum we see the pump of her heart, brightening with each
beat, her pulse big through the speakers. We listen
until the seats fill, until the floodlights come on
& she speaks, Welcome, this is my body, spinning ( Read more... )

The Corrections was as minutely imagined and far-reaching as a Russian novel. The book, I'll grant, dealt in platitudes, and was overly precious, but my friends, my enemies, my stalkers, my disinterested sometimes-readers, it's a novel about the Midwest. A minutely-imagined, farcial sleight-of-hand too good to be missed. So much to love about the ( Read more... )

1. Mackerel's growth came back an inflamed fibrosarcoma, which was the pathologist's way of being nice. I'm not gonna say it's a vaccine sarcoma, but. Because the growth was almost over his spine he is not a candidate for amputation. We put him under anesthesia the afternoon we found out and took wider margins around the site, hoping to have gotten ( Read more... )