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April 2010
April 29thMUSIC BY THE CREEK
My friend Jason Molin and his band played the coolest little lunchtime show on the UT campus this afternoon
April 29thANYTHING GOES
“anything goes in America / the rules / not really rules / but a kind of guesswork”
April 27thTHE WORTH OF THESE THINGS
“the worth of these things is beyond measure / the way she left pieces of us / for me to discover / a pair or panties / on the floorboards of my civic / a teenage boy pondering / future re-enactments”
April 23rdTALL BOYS
Austin food blogger Addie Broyles asked me to make a blackout poem from one of her columns.
April 22ndWALL STREET JOURNAL BLACKOUT POEMS
The folks over at the Speakeasy Blog asked me to make some poems from the WSJ, and I obliged.
April 19thOPEN ROAD
“as long as there is / open road / the familiar has the most formidable competitor”
April 19thPOETRY, OR, HOW MUCH IS YOUR LIFE WORTH?
True story, as told to me by John T. Unger during our Art Heroes interview…
April 18thALWAYS KEEP A LEGAL PAD HANDY
I try to keep a legal pad at my work desk at all times, so that whenever I get stuck or bored, I can just move over to the legal pad to keep my hand in motion.
April 16thNEWSPAPER BLACKOUT T-SHIRTS: “CREATIVITY IS SUBTRACTION”
These tees are handprinted on American Apparel triblend atheletic heathered gray t-shirts.
April 15thNEWSPAPER BLACKOUT RELEASE PARTY AT BOOKPEOPLE
I can’t think of a nicer way to cap a release day than with a successful release party in your home town bookstore.
April 13thNEWSPAPER BLACKOUT IS OUT!
Finally! After almost 2 years, Newspaper Blackout is out in the wild. You can buy it now wherever books are sold.
April 12thORIGINS ARE EASY
“origins are easy to come by / more so than dreams”
April 11thHOME ALONE
“if yr home alone / to feel that someone is near / set the TV all the way up / and have a third cookie”
April 10thTHE TWIST
“his wife appears nude in the moonlight / then they have a hot fudge sundae / and do the twist”
April 9thTHE COOL KIDS
“you sprint to get away / from two oversize kuntry lineman / while the cool kids french kiss / by the junior high school”
April 8thTHE PURSUIT OF LANDSCAPING
“The Pursuit of Landscaping / is the cause of a deranged man / imperfect is emancipation”
April 7thFIREFLIES
“catching fireflies saves everything / for one fleeting evening / 2 circus with unrelenting grins / i remember floating / the play so full of potential / u and me out after the lights”
April 6thA HOUSE IN TEXAS
“live with me / in a house in Texas / it is just the right mix / of armed and happy”
April 6thHOW TO GET NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT AND AMAZON SUPER-SAVER SHIPPING
Newspaper Blackout is so cheap that it doesn’t qualify for Amazon’s free super-saver shipping deal. Have no fear, I’ve got you covered…
April 5thOUT OF THE WOODS
“i got out of the woods / and let me tell you / i felt more at home in the woods”
April 4thTHE STORE WHERE SHE WORKS
“buckets catch the rain / coming inside the store where she works / i watch her happily bookkeep”
April 4thJOHN PORCELLINO AT DOMY BOOKS
Drawings of a John Porcellino talk and slideshow.
April 3rdSTAY-AT-HOME FANTASY
“one day i’ll just be able to stay at home and write and read / after that / what i’m most scared of / is that at home / with a bazillion good things/ i’ll struggle all the way”
April 3rdHOW TO MAKE A NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEM ON THE IPAD
Even though I still prefer the old analog way, there are times (mostly on the bus or out on the porch or lying in bed) when I don’t have a newspaper and a marker in front of me, so I’ve been experimenting with making them on my iPad.
April 1stNEW 20×200 NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT PRINT: THE TRAVELOGUE
Very pleased to announce that my friend Jen Bekman and the gang at 20×200 are offering a new, affordable Newspaper Blackout print for sale!
April 1stTHE HANGIN’
“if we dance before we get hung / the hangin aint so sad”
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