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April 2009
April 30thRATHER THAN REPAIR
“in the flood / we didn’t really do much / the water dried out / and rather than repair the hold / we chose to reside where the spill occurred / satisfied with the home”
April 29thHOW TO BE POPULAR
“wear special costumes / preach lessons / brighten lives / congratulate readers for what they already know / learn to talk like a pundit on fox news”
April 29thTHE CALL CENTER
“the sandwiches of peanut butter / we ate / on the marijuana high / satisfied us so we / could not be reached for complaints”
April 27thTHE DATE
“out of the house / emerges the date / one hand on her hip / her pose / hot and bored / me knobby-kneed on the porch / strange-looking with / flowers / little training clearly / but wanting to know”
April 26thINVOCATION
“sing to me / oh muse / i have the time / and the spot”
April 26thVIDEO: WINNERS OF THE OKLAHOMAN NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POETRY CONTEST
A video of the winners of the Oklahoman’s newspaper blackout poetry contest that I judged.
April 26thTHE RIGHT TO DECLINE
“hearing about / a nightmare / is a secret / we should have the right / to decline”
April 25thBUDA WEINER DOG RACES
Sharpie on index card drawings.
April 24thA SPECULATIVE SCHOOL
“money-making from art / is a speculative school of economics”
April 24thDRAWING ON SHEETS (INSTEAD OF SKETCHBOOKS)
On Edward Tufte’s graph paper, and drawing on sheets of paper instead of in sketchbooks.
April 23rdPIGGY-BACK
“he would treat us to a piggy-back / if he doubted or was worried / for we were the very shorthand genetics of the man”
April 23rdVISUAL NOTE-TAKING 101 : UPCOMING VIZTHINK WEBINAR
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 I’ll be teaching a webinar with Sunni Brown, Mike Rohde, and Dave Gray as moderator. My bit will focus on addressing the “But I Can’t Draw!” exclamation so many folks let keep them from it.
April 22ndSUITLAND
“in suitland / money is the familar / a gift is always a danger / in a world where the interest is to make a profit”
April 22ndWINE CAN HELP THE PARTY
“wine can help the party / where people are trying to impress one another / annoying proceedings / get a muzzle”
April 21stSPOON LIVE AT THE SCOOT INN
Sharpie on index card drawings of Spoon playing live at the Scoot Inn in Austin, Texas.
April 21stTOM PERROTTA MASTER CLASS
Mindmap of a Q&A session between novelist/screenwriter Tom Perrotta and John Pierson.
April 21stME AND MY BIG MOUTH
“a perfect party / leads to bits about her family / i got in big trouble like a teenager / that night / that out of many others”
April 21stOFFING
“there may be no better way / to spend an evening / no better work to do / offing roaches / clad in pajamas”
April 21stIN AND OUT OF DIRT!
“in and out of dirt! / a comedy of vampires”
April 17thCLOSE THE SHOP
“close the shop / paint yr hands / and begin the birth”
April 16thKNOWING THE CHANCES
“knowing the chances / will spite the idea / if we don’t know what it will cost / we start on the work”
April 16thMY LIFE IN TUMBLR TAGS
A biography made up of tumblr tags.
April 15thJUST A MATTER OF TIME
“he mortgaged himself to her / people thought oh it’s just a phase / just a matter of time / today in their home / i thought of this / and became rich”
April 14thIN THE SUBURBS
“in the suburbs i suffered / i compared my life / to my boyhood / like it didn’t belong to me”
April 14thLET’S PRETEND
“the cold plunging past / let’s pretend there’s fresh air outside / down on the ground / for an hour / necking”
April 12thTHE FACE OF THE EARTH
“the face of the earth / is where you want to be / in a suit up in space / with a cashed heart”
April 11thTHE TRANSFORMATION OF THEIR MUSIC
“the kids asked / my wife she said / that’s not a mom question that’s a dad question / witness the transformation of their music”
April 10thFRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
“the last time he gave a sermon in the locker-room / he took the team to the playoffs / so to try for another i don’t see any shame in that / the players lined up / recognizing a rare chance for a grand exit”
April 9thLONG-DISTANCE
“how it works is / the person you see is on the other side of the world / in a telephone / and totally unimaginable / is when u will hold dance / or just stand still / in the same space”
April 8thCATASTROPHE INTO NOTHING
“with little to gain or lose / he was red and unfinished and forward / i don’t know how many times over the years / he looked up a dress / with owlish eyes / and somehow turned catastrophe into nothing”
April 7thHISTORY DITCH
“shed the minutes until we get out of this history ditch”
April 6thHOW WE KEPT BUSY
“our powers of heart / our questioning heads / oh, how we kept busy”
April 5thWHAT SOUNDS SIMPLE
“what sounds simple / never comes across / as dense with effort / but try it / and see”
April 4thHERE THERE BE DRAGONS
“in many maps / the image depicted / at the end of the galaxy / is a dragon”
April 3rdDRAWING ON CAMERA
Testing out my new Aiptek A-HD+ 1080P HD cheapcam.
April 3rdDASHED HOPES
“dashed hopes can be mended with tape…”
April 2ndTHE BEAUTY OF EARLY WORKS
“in the museum of life / the beauty of early works…”
April 1stNEKO CASE AT STUBB’S
Doodles drawn live during a Neko Case concert.
April 1st(INTER)NATIONAL NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POETRY MONTH!
I hereby declare April INTERnational Newspaper Blackout Poetry month!
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