I WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Calm, but the goat's in a fit.

It's crisis-like, no qualifying the qualifiers.

JAN. 13: LAYNIE BROWNE, SARA JAFFE & MIRANDA MELLIS
JAN. 14: SANDY FLORIAN & ARIELLE GREENBERG
JAN. 15: BILL BERKSON & LYN HEJINIAN

Mark Antony does not show. All this Fordmania reels me back my boyhood, to 1976 when I was very small and saw my first homeless person.

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It was all so tawdry.

MiPOesias Magazine 2007

Your website is too complicated.

I, erm.

Gerald Ford has died, and I still don't feel healed from Watergate.

I started reading a novel today: this. I should say: I read Calvino's introduction and Weaver's forward. Then I got spit off the bus, like a peanut shell.

Tonight I scored another Baffler, this time Number Ten. I seem to be collecting them. I read a poem by Chris Stroffolino on the bus home, then began an essay on the novelist Pamela Moore. My roommate's just read Chris's Light As a Fetter and said it's good. The jacket's great. Because of this love-thing I have for you, my readers, there's a pic here and a real steal here.

Will The Baffler ever return? Is Gerald Ford really dead?

Melville House sent me their Spring catalogue today. I am too tired to type anymore, but here's your clue: Ann Beattie = Tao Lin.

Moles and shrews.

Re:

What are your expectations?

WHAT WE FOUND THIS MORNING. WHAT THE MATTER WITH PEOPLE.

(WAS)

Such a wall, such a wall,
such a tall, tall wall.

Last year this day I did seven posts:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Again, it's raining.

Via some vias: HERE.

Until further notice, please reach this blog by googling my surname, Banes.

FREE COFFEE


THIS
SUNDAY


@ PEET'S

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It's a holiday donations thing. Peet's'll match your donation and all that. Now I'm going to say "Peet's'll" again and again all day today, until I'm stopped.

For those of you in other climes, we had a nice little earthquake tonight. It kind of rolled by, wobbling the windows down the building and around the corner.

It was definitely an earthquake. We didn't break any china.

I am out of private time and am suspended by grace. Therefore, please keep shopping.

Who's today's nutter?

an atheist ethnic catholic's thoughts on christmas

i abstain mostly rather than pulling out. i get the migglemus, the exploitation, the potlatch. i've heard the incentives as well as the death threats.

mostly i believe in without practicing public excess, a human right predating jesus and capitalism.

PEACE ON EARTH.

i miss it.

Robert Walser
Memorial Reading
Amherst Books
December 25 at 4:00PM

VERBINDEN MAL MIT DIESEM BLOG.

my night

TONIGHT [MAP] HOOKE PRESS

I got a call from my mother: more people need to link to this blog.

TODAY'S WORD: INCUNABULUM