Some Al Gore.

Happy Hallowe'en

The Violence of Joe Wurzelbacher.

NEW POLLS: TIME/CNN

Colorado: Obama 53, McCain 45
Florida: Obama 51, McCain 47
Georgia: McCain 52, Obama 47
Missouri: McCain 50, Obama 48
Virginia: Obama 53, McCain 44

PUBLIC DOMAIN Mónica de la Torre Roof Books

NEW POLLS: LA TIMES/BLOOMBERG

Ohio: Obama 49, McCain 40
Florida: Obama 50, McCain 43

They're coming around the turn, about to enter the home stretch.

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SPD'S 'MAKE US FAMOUS' CONTEST

but then Rob hooked me up with supper and small press distribution

Sharon Mesmer
from "Fine Hormoney Bitch," in Annoying Diabetic Bitch

John Sakkis and Tetra Balestri saying it loud and saying it proud!

SUBMIT YOUR POEM THAT SOMEHOW, SOMEWHERE INCLUDES SPD'S NAME (SMALL PRESS DISTRIBUTION) AND GET A CHANCE TO WIN A FREE SPD BOOK OF YOUR CHOICE!

Guidelines and details here.

Tonight at Moe's: Nathaniel Tarn.

Keep marriage legal. No on 8.

A avoir d'urgence dans sa discothèque!

Cleet Bainse

Obtrusive case in point: Financial Times endorses Obama.

artifact reading series Saturday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. KATHLEEN FRASER KATY LEDERER WILL SKINKER Oakland Art Gallery Frank Ogawa Plaza 199 Kahn's Alley Oakland Ca 94612

BOTH BOTH READING SERIES Saturday, October 25 at 7:00 p.m. DODIE BELLAMY CEDAR SIGO & new artworks by DAVID PETRELLI JOHN SAKKIS'S PLACE 415 PIERCE ST. #3 (BETWEEN OAK AND FELL) SAN FRANCISCO

PLUS

three new books

Pew

52-38

NBC/WSJ

52-42

McCain supporters: "Lesser of two evils" 39, satisfied 34, excited 26
Obama supporters: Excited 52, satisfied 33, "lesser of two evils" 14

Sunday night I visited Books & Bookshelves at 99 Sanchez in San Francisco for the first time. Its poetry collection is one of the world's seven wonders, no hype. If you have any means to do so, go there. I found Gina Myers's new chapbook, Behind the R from ypolita press, which I hadn't even known existed as I've been crud on the internets lately (and was doubtless happier for it, empirically). The best surfers will be similarly stunned. Prepare yourself particularly for the out-of-print at bygone in-print prices (when gas was a buck and change, for instance, if you remember). Books & Bookshelves hosts a boffo reading series (tonight: Stephanie Young and Bill Luoma), and they've got an everything-20%-off fall clearance going on at the moment. I'm stomping my feet. Get there.

"I would not have hired her for even a mid-level post in the arms-control agency."

Photo Powell referred to on Meet the Press

Michael Smerconish, a Republican I've watched over the course of this year on MSNBC (incidentally, on the internet), endorses Obama.

GROTESQUERIE

Rush Limbaugh says of Colin Powell: "I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I'll let you know what I come up with."

OBAMA NOW BIGGER THAN OBAMA

Previous: bigger than the Beatles

VIDEO

Marc Maron asks Nevada bikers where their votes will be going

tomorrow night!

ARA SHIRINYAN &

JOCELYN SAIDENBERG (& CO.)

The (New) Reading Series

absent 3

Dale Smith

Two Poems

Chris Nealon

Caressed

Leigh Stein

Zelda

Donna Stonecipher

Two Poems

Carl Tillona

Burr Pattern

Chris Tonelli

Three Poems

Catherine Meng

Two Poems

Dorothea Lasky

Some trees

Matt Hart

Two Poems

Jane Gregory

ƒ (Given)

Ana Božičević

Emoticon

Jenny Boully

Three Poems

Chad Reynolds

Four Poems

... and more

PHOTO TOP RIGHT: My brother and I on our twelfth and seventeenth birthdays, eating locally.

canessa gallery reading series Saturday, October 18 at 8:00 p.m. DAVID BRAZIL, ROB HALPERN & STEPHEN RATCLIFFE Canessa Gallery 708 Montgomery Street, SF

artifact reading series Saturday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. KATHLEEN FRASER, KATY LEDERER & WILL SKINKER Oakland Art Gallery Frank Ogawa Plaza 199 Kahn's Alley Oakland Ca 94612

 also: mildred houston banes, my dad's mom.

Obama is leading by an average of 23 points among early voters in New Mexico, Ohio, Georgia, Iowa, and North Carolina.

Super 8

I've got some reels I want digitized. Anybody have some local recommendations where to take them? (Best, not cheapest.)

Omnidawn Book Wins PEN USA 2008 Award

KUNDERA VEHEMENTLY DENIES IT

story

RINGO BUMMED

Marcia Brady Coke Binges

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize.

NYBERG, GÖRANSSON & HAYASHIDA IN NYC

Kasey Mohammad on Poetry and Stupidity

Are McCain's Ads "Dangerous"?

KEEP MARRIAGE LEGAL IN CALIFORNIA

The NO ON PROP 8 Campaign Is Being Widely Outspent

CONTRIBUTE

The Inland Sea Brandon Shimoda (Pre-order—ships November 2008) - click here for more information about the book Pre-order $10 includes shipping anywhere in the US (ships November 2008) Pay by check or money order or pay online:

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PUB DATE APPARENTLY PUSHED BACK TILL NOVEMBER 30

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MIRCOREVIEW: COLBY/YANKELEVICH READING LAST NIGHT MORE

• The Best of Marcel Mareau
• BBC Radio: The Strange Life of H.P. Lovecraft
• Berlin 04: Nick Cave & the Superficial Seeds

WHO IS BARACK OBAMA

UNLAWFULLY ABUSED HER AUTHORITY

Yea Connecticut!
Yea Christopher Buckley!

NOTE OAKLAND LOCATION!!!!

TONIGHT @ 7:30

small press traffic

KATE COLBY &

MATVEI YANKELEVICH

CCA Oakland Campus, Nahl Hall 5212 Broadway in Oakland

Dow Jones average when Bush started his speech, 10:24AM: -89.
Dow Jones average when Bush finished his speech, 10:33AM: -185.

ALL TIMES EDT.

R.I.P.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

If you're up (I'm not) you know who won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.

small press traffic Friday, October 10 at 7:30 p.m. KATE COLBY & MATVEI YANKELEVICH CCA Oakland Campus, Nahl Hall 5212 Broadway in Oakland

canessa gallery reading series Saturday, October 18 at 8:00 p.m. DAVID BRAZIL, ROB HALPERN & STEPHEN RATCLIFFE Canessa Gallery 708 Montgomery Street, SF

artifact reading series Saturday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. KATHLEEN FRASER, KATY LEDERER & WILL SKINKER Oakland Art Gallery Frank Ogawa Plaza 199 Kahn's Alley Oakland Ca 94612

'THAT ONE' WINS

Don't ask me, even the Weekly Fucking Standard says so.

Three for three Obama-Biden.

All we've got to do is go out and vote.

From the Washington Post: Palin supporter to black sound man in Florida: "Sit down, boy."

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Balm: Garrett Caples!

full documentary available at 12:00 p.m. eastern

small press traffic Friday, October 10 at 7:30 p.m. KATE COLBY & MATVEI YANKELEVICH CCA Oakland Campus, Nahl Hall 5212 Broadway in Oakland

canessa gallery reading series Saturday, October 18 at 8:00 p.m. DAVID BRAZIL, ROB HALPERN & STEPHEN RATCLIFFE Canessa Gallery 708 Montgomery Street, SF

artifact reading series Saturday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. KATHLEEN FRASER, KATY LEDERER & WILL SKINKER Oakland Art Gallery Frank Ogawa Plaza 199 Kahn's Alley Oakland Ca 94612

MY FRIENDS

John McCain is doing this and he's signing that.

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AP: "[Palin's] attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.”